{"id":97,"date":"2024-06-23T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T00:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2024-07-06T01:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T01:26:01","slug":"hadewijch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/hadewijch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadewijch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Be braver, now, than you have ever been<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">And keep turning away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">From all names, images, forms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Stripping yourself continually<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Of yourself<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Flinging every last scrap of you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Into the furnace of Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I tell you: when the soul itself is burnt away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">It is melted into<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The modeless bliss-nature of God.\u2019<\/p>\n<cite>Hadewijch<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hadewijch is a newly treasured female Christian mystic of the 13<sup>th<\/sup> century. She lived as a Beguine for some of her life. Beguines were Christian women sharing communal housing who formed communities and worked in menial positions serving the poor from their own means. They did not belong to a religious order nor were they under the control of male clerics. An inspired mystical writer, Hadewijch\u2019s works have only recently been rediscovered after having been seemingly silenced for five centuries. For a detailed description of Hadewijch\u2019s life and the story of how her writings were rediscovered, see Andrew Harvey\u2019s Preface to his translation of Hadewijch\u2019s poetry and prose, <em>Love is Everything.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quotations used in Mags and Tom are selected from Hadewijch\u2019s poetry and used with kind permission of Andrew Harvey. For a fuller appreciation of Hadewijch\u2019s mystical teaching, see Andrew\u2019s book, <em>Love is Everything <a>A Year with Hadewijch of Antwerp<\/a><\/em> translation by Andrew Harvey, (Medio Media: Singapore, 2022). Copies of <em>Love is Everything<\/em> are available from Pauline Books and Media stores. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulinebooks.com.au\">www.paulinebooks.com.au<\/a> for store locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Be braver, now, than you have ever been And keep turning away From all names, images, forms Stripping yourself continually Of yourself Flinging every last scrap of you Into the furnace of Nothing. I tell you: when the soul itself is burnt away It is melted into The modeless bliss-nature of God.\u2019 Hadewijch Hadewijch is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}