By Anonymous, A. C. Spearing
Within the fourteenth century there has been an exceptional flourishing of spiritual writings in English, either orthodox and heretical. a lot of those works taken with Christ's ardour and humanity, while The Cloud of Unknowing describes an summary, transcendent God past human wisdom and human language. Drawing upon notably diverse traditions, it's a wealthy paintings choked with fascinating contradictions that speaks to us with liveliness and wit even at the present time. The unknown writer, regarded as a clergyman and Carthusian monk, is additionally believed to have written the opposite 3 works during this quantity: The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The ebook of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer, which, including The Cloud of Unknowing, are the 4 texts on the center of medieval mystical theology.
This Penguin Classics variation comprises complete explanatory notes, feedback for extra analyzing, an appendix that reproduces the center English textual content of a bit of the paranormal Theology of Saint Denis, and an advent that locations the texts in the context of medieval non secular writing.
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Although I still like this description of the Triple Goddess (that I wrote ten years ago), during the past decade I have begun to wonder if this configuration is sufficient to describe the lives of the women I know. 5 They died young, worn-out from too much childbearing and manual labor, from too little rest and nutrition. ” For several years, therefore, it has seemed to me that we need something between Mother and Crone. ” The Queen is the Mother whose children have grown up. While she’s an empty-nester, she’s hardly ready to retire.
Many of us are no longer satisfied with this setup. We’re tired of sin and guilt and bloody gods. We long for caring and nurturing and loving-kindness. We want open access to the divine, and we’ve figured out that the divine essence of the world manifests as the world — in people, in plants and animals, in rivers and canyons and plains. We understand that the divine can manifest in our cities and neighborhoods and communities. Many of us have read the books that explain how people used to worship a Mother Goddess who created the world and embodied the earth.
It’s time to call on the Goddess Serenissima, She Who holds our hands, rubs our shoulders, tempts us into a bubblebath, and teaches us the vital, life-preserving skills of self-love, self-care, and self-time. Bringing Serenissima into Your Life This is a two-part ritual whose intention is to bring the power and beauty of Serenissima into your life and relief into your schedule. Your intention is to create a whole day of self-time two weeks or one month from now. You are, therefore, asking Serenissima to intervene in your life in all Her ordinary, magical ways to reschedule your obligations and clear a day on your calendar.