Angelus Silesius: One Must Go Beyond God

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One Must Go Beyond God

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by Angelus Silesius
(1624 - 1677) Timeline

English version by
Maria Shrady

Original Language
German

Christian : Catholic

17th Century

Where is my dewelling place? Where I can never stand.
Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend?
It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be?
I must, transcending God, into the desert flee.

-- from German Mystical Writings: Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, and others, Edited by Karen J. Campbell

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	The Angelic Verses: From the Book of Angelus Silesius, Translated by Frederick Frank
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	Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Angelus Silesius / Translated by Maria Shrady
	Angelus Silesius' Cherubinischer Wandersmann: A Modern Reading With Selected Translations (Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts), by Maria M. Bohm
	The Book of Angelus Silesius, Translated by Frederick Frank

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