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Silesius - The Cherubinic Wanderer – 10 Love 232
Identifier
020707
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The Encyclopaedia Brittanica identifies these epigrams as Reimsprüche—or rhymed distichs—and describes them as:
...embodying a strange mystical pantheism drawn mainly from the writings of Jakob Böhme and his followers. Silesius delighted specially in the subtle paradoxes of mysticism. The essence of God, for instance, he held to be love; God, he said, can love nothing inferior to himself; but he cannot be an object of love to himself without going out, so to speak, of himself, without manifesting his infinity in a finite form; in other words, by becoming man. God and man are therefore essentially one.
A description of the experience
Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer - by Angelus Silesius - translated with an introduction by J. E. Crawford Flitch
232 (V. 292)
BEAUTY COMETH FROM LOVE
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Beauty is born of Love alone. |