The Sorcerers’ Stone

“Having assigned Silesius in the classroom to teach students about mysticism, this excellent volume is a welcome resource on a fascinating but underappreciated Christian mystic in the Anglophone world. Rachel A. Lott has done the study of mystical poetry a tremendous service with this accessible and well-researched volume.”


—Alexander J. B. Hampton, author of Christian Platonism: A History





“Rachel Lott’s sparkling translations transform Silesius’s angelic German epigrams into English gems. A treasury of Christian wisdom distilled in golden verse.”


—Rachel Fulton Brown, author of Mary and the Art of Prayer: Medieval Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary