This cleaned title conceals a rigorous reading of the mystic and metaphysical stakes of the distics and quarries that make up the Cherubinic pilgrimage, which Johannes Scheffler first published in Vienna in 1657 under the name Angelus Silesius. Jacques Le Brun here gives us an interpretation of the compendium by working on the relationship between a very dense spiritual culture and a poetic writing of intense brevity, which is captured by the wording, which gives the title of the book here, Di...