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Silesius - The Cherubinic Wanderer – 03 The Still Wilderness 056
Identifier
020698
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The poetry of Angelus Silesius consists largely of epigrams in the form of alexandrine couplets—the style that dominated German poetry and mystical literature during the Baroque era. According to Baker, the epigram was key to conveying mysticism, because “the epigram with its tendency towards brevity and pointedness is a suitable genre to cope with the aesthetic problem of the ineffability of the mystical experience.”
A description of the experience
Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer - by Angelus Silesius - translated with an introduction by J. E. Crawford Flitch
56 (IV. 23)
DIVINE CONTEMPLATION
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Who in this mortal life would see |