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The piece is a mix of a classical sonata form and a fugue-like polyphonic structure with a great inner trim. The title refers to a statement attributed to Empedocles in Liber Termigisti (1315): "(The nature of) God is a circle whose center is everywhere and its circumference nowhere." Angelus Silesius was probably familiar with this because of a distich with the same title in his work "Der Cherubinischer Wanderman", (1657) ( The Cherubinic Wanderer), which is a highlight in in German Baroque literature.