ANGELUS, GUIDE TO GOD WITHIN | EPISODE 15

The Be-Loving Imaginer

PODCAST #15: ANGELUS, GUIDE TO GOD WITHIN

by

Martin Bidney

Angelus Silesius, the Silesian Angel, was the name Johannes Scheffler took when he converted from the Lutheran to the Catholic Church. But as witty mystic poet, he aims to bring his imagining Heart to oneness with ULTIMATE BEING, THE GOD BEHIND THE NAMES and formulations. His poetry book, “Cherubinischer Wandersmann,” could be translated Companion Angel. Living in a century of religious wars, he wants, through introspection, to find harmony.

Mystic = Greek myein = to close the eyes. Looking inward, Angelus finds the oneness of the Beating Heart with the Boundless. Immensely daring imaginative calisthenics through intense love can expand the heart so that it, too, is boundless. I interview Angelus 86 times, commenting on his deep and innovative metaphors. The Boundless itself is a metaphor – a closely related one is Horizon, the Ultimate Being we can’t reach. Look in your heart to find the boundless – I use this thought of Angelus as my own personal motto (Dialogue 200).

Exploring the Boundless – Beyond the Names

Dialogue 115. The Uncreated Ocean.

Dialogue 119. The Over-Godhead.

Dialogue 120. Love brings us to the Over-God.

Dialogue 116. I’m as big and as small as God.

Dialogue 117. God’s the fire, I’m the shine.

Dialogue 140. Become all things & thus a god.

Poet as Mary and God as Her Child

Dialogue 121. Let me be Mary and bear God.

Dialogue 132. I want to be Mary!

Dialogue 136. God allows for all metaphoric family roles.