I have just started to look once again at a wonderful writer/poet called Angelus Silesius. He was born Johann Scheffler in 1624 to Protestant parents in the Silesian capital of Breslau. At the age of 29 after graduating from Padua University he became a Roman catholic and took the name Angelus. These excerts come from his collection of poems entitled " The Cherubinic Wanderer" Some sound a bit like Japanese Haiku to me! Do you like them? What is your reaction to them?
God is the purest naught, untouched by time and space.
The more you reach for him, the more he will escape.
God far exceeds all words that we can here express
In silence he is heard, in silence worshipped best
One knows not what God is. Not spirit and not light,
Not one, truth, unity, not what we call divine.
Not reason and not wisdom, not goodness, love or will,
No thing, no nothing either, not being or concern.
He is what I or you, or any other creature
Has never come to know before we were created.
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