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1624–1677 Germany

Angelus Silesius (25 December 1624 – 9 July 1677), born Johann Scheffler, also known as the Prophet of the Ineffable, was a German mystic of the Catholic Church, as well as a poet, priest and physician. He adopted the name Angelus (Latin for "messenger") and the surname Silesius (from the Latin for "Silesian") upon converting to Catholicism in 1653.

Germany
Physicians
Poets

Also known as: Silesius, Johann Scheffler, Prophet of the Ineffable, The Prophet of the Ineffable

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The resurrection is
In spirit done in thee,
As soon as thou from all
Thy sins hast set thee free.

He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.

Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;—
The things o'er which thou mournest—are they not playthings all?

Naught ever can be known in God: One and Alone Is He.
To know Him, Knower must be one with Known.

God is an utter Nothingness,
Beyond the touch of Time and Place:
The more thou graspest after Him,
The more he fleeth thy embrace.

In schools throughout the world God's but described to you.
Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.

How short our span!
If you once realized how brief,
you would refrain
from causing any beast or man
the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different

Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses,
My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

Who would expect it so?
From darkness light is brought,
Life rises out of Death,
And Something comes from Naught.

God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals
Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills

The vengeful God of wrath and punishment
is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me
That makes me fail.

The World doth not imprison thee.
Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself,
thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.

God far exceeds all words that we can here express
In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best

If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art

All Heaven is within thee, Man,
And all of Hell within thy heart:
What thou dost choose and will to have,
That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.

If thou dost love a Something, Man,
Thou lovest naught that doth abide.
God is not This nor That—do thou
Leave Somethings utterly aside
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Travel within thyself!
The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought,
cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.

Unless you find paradise at your own center,
there is not the smallest chance
That you may enter

Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time,
There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Angelus Silesius (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.