{"id":5613,"date":"2017-02-22T09:48:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:48:34","slug":"angelus-silesius-so-many-droplets-in-the-sea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/angelus-silesius-so-many-droplets-in-the-sea-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelus Silesius – So many droplets in the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many droplets in the sea, in bread so many grains
\nby Angelus Silesius<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

English version by Gabriel Rosenstock<\/font><\/p>\n

So many droplets in the sea, in bread so many grains;
\nSo too of our multiplicity, nothing but God remains.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a> \u2014 from Haiku: The Gentle Art of Disappearing<\/a>, by Gabriel Rosenstock<\/font><\/p>\n


\/ Image by alexandre-deschaumes<\/a> \/<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Short poem, short commentary: Many <-> One<\/p>\n


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<\/a>Recommended Books: Angelus Silesius<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology)<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nPoetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nThe Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nGerman Mystical Writings: Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, and others<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nHaiku: The Gentle Art of Disappearing<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
More Books >><\/a><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\n\"Angelus<\/a>\n<\/td>\n\nAngelus Silesius<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Poland\/Germany (1624 \u2013 1677) Timeline<\/a>
\nChristian<\/a> : Catholic<\/a>
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Angelus Silesius is the monastic name of Johannes Scheffler. Johannes Scheffler was born into a noble Polish Lutheran family. He received a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Padua and became a physician.<\/p>\n

As a young man he was drawn to the writings of the German mystic Jacob Boehme. Scheffler\u2019s growing mysticism didn\u2019t sit well with the dogmatic forms of German Lutheranism of the time and, in 1653, he converted to Catholicism. He took the name Angelus, adding the surname Silesius, meaning \u201cfrom Silesia.\u201d<\/p>\n

During this time, Selisius was briefly named physician to Emperor Ferdinand III, but he soon renounced his profession and, in 1661, he was ordained a priest and retired to monastic life in Breslau. He gave his family fortune away to charities.<\/p>\n

He published two books of poetry: The Soul\u2019s Spiritual Delight and The Cherubic Pilgrim. Several of his poems are today used as religious hymns in both Catholic and Protestant churches.<\/p>\n

Angelus Silesius was often engaged in public controversy with both the Lutheran Church he had left and also with his adopted Catholic faith. His poetry hinted at a quietest mysticism which asserts that the soul, when it attains deep quiet, can experience God directly \u2014 a notion neither institution has been too fond of.<\/p>\n

More poetry by Angelus Silesius<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many droplets in the sea, in bread so many grains by Angelus Silesius English version by Gabriel Rosenstock So many droplets in the sea, in bread so many grains; So too of our multiplicity, nothing but God remains. \u2014 from Haiku: The Gentle Art of Disappearing, by Gabriel Rosenstock \/ Image by alexandre-deschaumes \/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[894,53,79,895,897],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-angelus-silesius","tag-catholic-poetry","tag-christian-poetry","tag-german-mystical-poetry","tag-lutheran-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}