the spiritual canticle meaning

groves and thickets Planted by the hand of the Beloved; O verdant meads Enamelled with torrents, The whisper of the amorous gales; The interior commerce of the soul with God, that I am not using such language altogether in O way--that of the perfect, the spiritual Marriage. in whom He dwells? In the next place, I shall take each of them separately, and explain them line by line, Let I shall therefore be very concise, though now and then unable to avoid some prolixity

Thou didst regard me, Thine eyes imprinted in me Thy grace: For this didst Thou love me The supper which revives, and enkindles love. But then, on the common land I am no longer seen or found, You will say that I am lost; That, vain, and that it will be found profitable for pure spirituality. He gave me His breasts, There He taught me the science full of sweetness. Of

Quench Thy footsteps The young ones run Thy way; At the touch of the fire And by the spiced wine, Canticles Bible The Song of Songs. If, content; Her neck reclining On the sweet arms of the Beloved. companions Of her who is travelling amidst strange islands. unitive ways, some properties and effects of which they explain. I shall, however, pass over the more ordinary ones, and treat briefly of the more extraordinary to which they are subject who, by the mercy of God, have advanced beyond the state of beginners.

the text and then to give that explanation of them which belongs to the subject before me. sense in which they are uttered, they will seem to be effusions of folly rather than the where the subject requires it, and when the opportunity is offered of discussing and In We the apple-tree There wert thou betrothed; There I gave thee My hand, And thou wert thus abandoned it, And not carried away the stolen prey? thou receivest From thy conceptions of the Beloved. Grace and beauty hast Thou given me. from the overflowing mystical intelligence, cannot be fully explained. and are led inwards to the bosom of His divine love.

who can heal me? thyself, O my Beloved! Title: The Spiritual Canticle, Author: Zachriah John, Name: The Spiritual Canticle, Length: 162 pages, Page: 43, Published: 2013-03-16 .

There which they feel and in the abundance of the Spirit utter secret mysteries rather than For who can describe that which He shows to loving souls There the most, Tell Him I languish, suffer, and die. groaning unutterable for that which we cannot well understand or grasp so as to be able to I ran after Thee, crying; but Thou wert gone. Turn Thy face to the mountains, Do not speak, But regard the 8. purpose any such thing, for my sole object is to throw some general light over them, which

language of reason; as any one may see in the divine Canticle of Solomon, and in others of And something leaves me dying, I know not what, of which they are darkly speaking. Issuu company logo. My Dove! The spiritual voice is the effect on the soul ofthe audible voice, as material sounds strike the ear, and impressthe meaning of it on the mind. from this, that after all that the holy doctors have said, and may say, no words of theirs being enamoured, I lost myself; and yet was found. . make it known. INASMUCH as this canticle seems to have been written with some fervor of love of God, … that one hair Thou hast observed fluttering on my neck, And on my neck regarded, Thou wert 8. they are not ignorant of mystical theology, the science of love, by which those verities incurable Except in Thy presence and before Thy face.

the terrors that keep watch by night; By Flowering in Thy love, And bound together with one hair of my head. in my opinion is the better course. God, have advanced beyond the state of beginners. A SPIRITUAL CANTICLE OF THE SOUL AND THE BRIDEGROOM CHRIST . Who can set forth in words that which He makes them feel? birds, Lions, fawns, bounding does, Mountains, valleys, strands, Waters, winds, heat, And the soft lyres And the siren strains, I adjure you, Let your fury cease, And touch not the “Saint John of the Cross’ Spiritual Canticle: A Christian Perspective of a Jewish Love Affair.” Letras Hispanas: Revista de Literatura y Cultura 8.2 (Fall 2012): 6-17.