Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius, born Johann Scheffler and also known as Johann Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet. Born and raised a Lutheran, he adopted the name Angelusand the epithet Silesiuson converting to Catholicism in 1653. While studying in the Netherlands, he began to read the works of medieval mystics and became acquainted with the works of the German mystic Jacob Böhme through Böhme's friend, Abraham von Franckenberg. Silesius's mystical beliefs caused...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 December 1624
CountryGermany
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.
A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.
The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.
Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me.
Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God 's own way.
The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.