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Christian : Catholic
13th Century

 

About Hadewijch of Antwerp

Timeline (13th Century)

 

 

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English version by
Jane Hirshfield

Original Language
Dutch
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Recommended Books

Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages, by Ursula King
Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by Mother Columbo Hart
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, by Bernard Mcginn
The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

You who want
knowledge,
seek the Oneness
within

There you
will find
the clear mirror
already waiting

 

 

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

 

 

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