Sacred-Texts Christianity Angelus Silesius
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1 (II. 188)
BEING IS NOT MEASURED
| Turn wheresoe'er I will, I find no evidence of End, Beginning, Centre or Circumference. |
2 (I. 263)
GOD NEVER EXPLORETH HIMSELF
| The Thought and Deed of Deity Are of such richness and extent That It remaineth to Itself An Undiscovered Continent. |
3 (VI. 174)
IN THE SEA MANY ARE ONE
| A Loaf holds many grains of corn And many myriad drops the Sea: So is God's Oneness Multitude And that great Multitude are we. |
4 (V. I)
ALL INTO ONE AGAIN
| The All proceedeth from the One, And into One must All regress: If otherwise, the All remains Asunder-riven manyness. |
5 (I. 25)
GOD IS NOT GRASPED
| God is an utter Nothingness, Beyond the touch of Time and Place: The more thou graspest after Him, The more he fleeth thy embrace. |
6 (I. 15)
THE SUPER-DEITY
| What hath been told of God is not enough for me: My life and light flow from the Super-Deity. |
7 (I. 284)
MAN MUST GO BEYOND ALL KNOWLEDGE
| What Cherubs know sufficeth not: beyond their zone I fain would take my flight unto where nothing's known. |
8 (I. 285)
THE KNOWER MUST BECOME THE KNOWN
| Naught ever can be known in God: One and Alone Is He. To know Him, Knower must be one with Known. |
9 (I. 43)
MAN LOVETH EVEN WITHOUT KNOWING
| One only Thing I love and know not what it is: Because I know it not, therefore I've chosen this. |
10 (V. 41)
MORE KNOWN LESS UNDERSTOOD
| The more thou knowest God, the more thou wilt confess That what He truly is, thou knowest less and less. |
11 (I. 178)
THE BLAME IS THINE
| If gazing on the Sun endangereth thy sight, The blame is in thine eyes, and not in that great Light. |
12 (I. 294)
GOD IS WITHOUT WILL
| We pray: Thy Will be done! and lo! He hath no Will: God in His changelessness eternally is still. |
13 (IV. 166)
THE REST AND WORK OF GOD
| Rested God never hath, nor toiled—'tis manifest, For all His rest is work and all His work is rest. |
14 (III. 170)
OF ETERNAL MOTION
| The secret of Eternal Motion thou wouldst learn, I, of Eternal Rest: which is of more concern? |
15 (I. 49)
REST IS THE HIGHEST GOOD
| Rest is the highest Good. I'd keep both eyes close pressed, That He might have repose, were God Himself not Rest. |
16 (I. 44)
THE SOMETHING MUST BE FORSAKEN
| 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. |
17 (V. 328)
SIN TROUBLETH NOT GOD
| God feeleth pain for sin in thee As in His son, But in His Self of Deity He feeleth none. |
18 (V. 16)
THROUGH THEE GOD LOSETH NAUGHT
| Choose, Man, which of the twain thou wilt, Thy self-destruction or thy peace. Through thee God suffereth no loss, Neither through thee hath He increase. |
19 (V. 34)
GOD LOVETH NAUGHT BUT HIMSELF
| God is so dear unto Himself, Folded in self so utterly, That He can never cherish love For anything that is not He. |
20 (V. 92)
GOD FORESEETH NOTHING
| God foresees nothing—'tis thy dull and blundering sense Doth clothe Him with the attribute of Providence. |
21 (V. 173)
GOD HATH NO THOUGHTS
| God thinketh naught. Yea verily, Were thought in Him, then might He sway —Which were a thing unthinkable— Now this way, now the other way. |
22 (II. 55)
GOD IS AND LIVETH NOT
| God is, but in God-wise. He loves and lives, 'tis true, But not as I or thou or other beings do. |
23 (V. 124)
WHAT IS SPOKEN OF GOD IS MORE FALSE THAN TRUE
| Since thou dost measure God by creature qualities, There's more of lie than truth in thy theologies. |
24 (V. 358)
GOD BECOMES WHAT HE WILLS
| Eternal Spirit, God becomes All that He wills to be—but still Abideth ever as He is, Without a form, an aim, a will. |
25 (I. 115)
THOU MUST THYSELF BE SUN
| I must myself be Sun. I with my beams must dye The all-uncoloured Sea of the whole Deity. |
26 (II. 17)
GOD DENIETH HIMSELF TO NONE
| Take, drink, all that thou wilt or canst—'tis given thee free, Thou hast the whole of Godhead for thy Hostelry. |
27 (V. 339)
NO CREATURE FATHOMETH THE GODHEAD
| No creature fathometh how deep the Godhead is, Even the soul of Christ is lost in that Abyss. |
28 (IV. 38)
GOD NAUGHT AND ALL
| God is a Spirit, a Fire, a Being and a Flame, And yet again He is not one of all these same. |
29 (IV. 1)
GOD BECOMETH WHAT HE NEVER WAS
| Here in the midst of Time God doth become what He, The Unbecome, was not in all Eternity. |
30 (II. 245)
THE GODHEAD IS MY MOTHER
| God hath begotten me—such my true genesis, But do thou never ask me who my Mother is. |