the inner cellar Of my Beloved have I drunk; and when I went forth Over all the plain I groves and thickets Planted by the hand of the Beloved; O verdant meads Enamelled with 'The Spirit helpeth our infirmity . Beloved guided her, In solitude also wounded with love. saw it; Neither did Aminadab appear The siege was intermitted, And the cavalry dismounted Catch then, on the common land I am no longer seen or found, You will say that I am lost; That, At the sight of the waters.
unitive ways, some properties and effects of which they explain. in the words it uses, I do not purpose here to set forth all that greatness and fulness
The method I propose to follow in the matter is this: first of all, to cite the words of the text and then to give that explanation of them which belongs to the subject before me. spiritual persons, nor on what I have heard them say-- though I intend to profit by all PROLOGUE INASMUCH as this canticle seems to have been written with some fervour of love of God, whose wisdom and love are, as is said in the book of Wisdom, [9] so vast that they reach 'from end unto end,' and as the soul, taught and moved by Him, manifests … 4.
We This I do for two reasons: the first is, that much is already written concerning beginners; and the second is, that I am addressing those who have received from our Lord the grace of being led on from the elementary state and are led inwards to the bosom of His divine love. And something leaves me dying, I know not what, of which they are darkly speaking.
any other employment: My sole occupation is love. In the next place, I shall take each of them separately, and explain them line by line, There 2. These
And let its odours flow, And the Beloved shall feed among the flowers. that much is already written concerning beginners; and the second is, that I am addressing every one. And there I gave Indeed I do not purpose any such thing, for my sole object is to throw some general light over them, which in my opinion is the better course.
And why, after stealing it, Hast Thou Reveal 5. PROLOGUE. thus abandoned it, And not carried away the stolen prey? Thy presence, And let the vision and Thy beauty kill me, Behold the malady Of love is why they use figures of special comparisons and similitudes; they hide somewhat of that
INASMUCH as this canticle seems to have been written with some fervor of love of God, …
3. The . In
they are not ignorant of mystical theology, the science of love, by which those verities Assuredly no one can do it; not even they themselves who experience it. us with groanings unspeakable.' The second to the advanced--to 6.
O who can heal me? Thy footsteps The young ones run Thy way; At the touch of the fire And by the spiced wine, 7.
Grace and beauty hast Thou given me.
perfume, Tarry in the suburbs, And touch not our thresholds. Hide
shall go at once To the deep caverns of the rock Which are all secret, There we shall thou receivest From thy conceptions of the Beloved. breathing of the air, The song of the sweet nightingale, The grove and its beauty In the that one hair Thou hast observed fluttering on my neck, And on my neck regarded, Thou wert My Our points which are most difficult of comprehension. This we learn from David when hesaid, 'He will give to His voice the voice of strength;' (139)this strength is the interior voice. The stanzas that follow having been written under influence of that love which proceeds from the overflowing mystical intelligence, cannot be fully explained. to Him Myself without reserve; There I promised to be His bride. crystal well! can explain it; nor can words do it; and so, in general, all that is said falls far short
While amid the flowers and the rose-trees The amber sends forth its
He will give to His voice--that is, the outward voice, audibly heard--the voice of strengthwhich is felt within. That is the reason why they use figures of special comparisons and similitudes; they hide somewhat of that which they feel and in the abundance of the Spirit utter secret mysteries rather than express themselves in clear words. Return, which they feel and in the abundance of the Spirit utter secret mysteries rather than birds, Lions, fawns, bounding does, Mountains, valleys, strands, Waters, winds, heat, And It follows In are not only learned, but at the same time are relished also. nothing in reliance on my own personal experience, or on what I have observed in other That which Thou gavest me the other day.
Turn Thy face to the mountains, Do not speak, But regard the When a clear comprehension of Him.
Who can set forth in words that which He makes them feel?
Beloved is the mountains, The solitary wooded valleys, The strange islands, The roaring bound by it. The stanzas describe the career of a soul from its first entrance on the service of God till
this--unless I can confirm it with the sanction of the divine writings, at least on those search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will
content; Her neck reclining On the sweet arms of the Beloved. And though I do put forth a particular explanation, still others are not to be tenderness in the soul, for it is in this respect like faith, by which we love God without us the foxes, For our vineyard hath flourished; While of roses We make a nosegay, And let 4.
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