Talk:Angelus Silesius

stuff moved from article - removing clutter for revision
Moving the old dusty furniture out of the room before I paint. This stuff wasn't really used in the article. Saving it here for reference if it is useful down the road.--ColonelHenry (talk) 05:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

When I started editing this article 11 July 2012 it was a mess. The more I look at the article, the more I see this as the best way of cleaning house. I've removed a couple of sections here that has to be sorted through, and it distracts from actually making the article look presentable and properly format it. I don't want to delete it outright, because it might have a few useful gems of knowledge. Keeping it here until then. --ColonelHenry (talk) 04:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

references/external links
This article incorporates information from the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
 * Catholic Encyclopedia article

Dünnhaupt, Gerhard. Johannes Scheffler. In "Personalbibliographien zu den Drucken des Barock." Vol 5. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9013-0, pp. 3527–3556. Dürig, W.. Zur Frömmigkeit des A.Silesius in Amt und Sendung. Freiburg: 1950. Garland, Mary, editor. The Oxford Companion to German Literature. 2nd Ed. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Hederer, Edgar, editor. ''Das deutsche Gedicht: Gedichte vom Mittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert''. 14th ed. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag, 1974. Steiner, Rudolph. Giordano Bruno and Angelus Silesius. Unknown Publisher: 2005.

Bibliographical references
A complete edition of Scheffler's works (Sämtliche poetische Werke) was published by D. A. Rosenthal, 2 vols. (Regensburg, 1862). Both the Cherubinischer Wandersmann and Heilige Seelenlust have been republished by G. Ellinger (1895 and 1901); a selection from the former work by O. E. Hartleben (1896). For further notices of Silesius' life and work, see Hoffmann von Fallersleben in Weimarisches Jahrbuch I. (Hanover, 1854); A. Kahlert, Angelus Silesius (1853); C. Seltmann, Angelus Silesius und seine Mystik (1896), and a biography by H. Mahn (Dresden, 1896). His poetic works appeared, Sämtliche poetishe Werke (3 Vols.), 1949–1954, under the editorship of H. L. Held.

works
In 1657 Silesius published under the title Heilige Seelenlust, oder geistliche Hirtenlieder der in ihren Jesum verliebten Psyche (1657), a collection of 205 hymns, the most beautiful of which, such as, Liebe, die du mich zum Bilde deiner Gottheit hast gemacht and Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held, have been adopted in the German Protestant hymnal. More remarkable, however, is his Geistreiche Sinn- und Schluss-reime (1657), afterwards called Cherubinischer Wandersmann ("The Cherubic Pilgrim") (1674). This is a collection of Reimsprüche or rhymed distichs embodying a strange mystical panentheism drawn mainly from the writings of Jakob Böhme and his followers. Silesius also 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.

The Catholic Encyclopedia defends Silesius from the charge of panentheism. His prose writings are orthodox; "The Cherubic Pilgrim" was published with the ecclesiastical Imprimatur, and, in his preface, the author himself explains his "paradoxes" in an orthodox sense, and repudiates any future pantheistic interpretation.

Silesius also wrote prose, notably a series of tracts against Protestantism, published under the title Ecclesiologia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ColonelHenry (talk • contribs) 06:37, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Siete Noches
I can't figure out how to edit the footnotes, but the Borges source is cited there as Seite Noches but should be Siete Noches. (2604:2000:1382:C19F:0:1959:61D9:2569 (talk) 17:43, 7 April 2018 (UTC))

Silesian?
He was a German. Silesians is a new invention since the 20th century. For centuries, Silesia was either by the Germans and the Poles, there were no Silesians (except the tribe hundreds of years ago).

Title of a tract
I fixed the wacky translation of one title. The wackiness stemmed from a misreading of the original, not "Christ" but Christian Chemnitz. Here is the original page:. Cordially, --Msbbb (talk) 22:36, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Zen
Has Silesius's work been compared to the philosophy of Zen? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 05:50, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Goethe
Is it true that Silesius was a favorite of Goethe? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 05:51, 25 June 2022 (UTC)