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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.
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Ah, were men's voices like the wood-birds' melody— Each happy note distinct, but all in harmony!
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The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all,
Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralled
By both its heat and strength; thus it remains true still
That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill
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God far exceeds all words that we can here express
In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best
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Though Christ a thousand times
in Bethleham be born
And not within thyself,
Thy soul will be forlorn
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Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.
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Unless you find paradise at your own center,
there is not the smallest chance
That you may enter
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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you.
Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.
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The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
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Born:
December 25, 1624
Died:
July 9, 1677
(aged 52)
Bio:
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.
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The cherubinic wanderer
The Wanderer: Epigrams of a European Mystic
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