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13th Century

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Timeline (13th Century)

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English version by
Willis Barnstone
Though he has no form

Themes
  Fire
  Light
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Sacred Voices: Essential Women's Voices Through the Ages, Edited by Mary Ford-Grabowsky
The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone

Though he has no form
my eyes saw him,

his glory is fire in my mind
that knows

his secret inner form
invented by the soul.

What is
beyond the mind

has no boundary.
In it our senses end.

Mukta says: Words cannot hold him
yet in him all words are.

 

 

-- from The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone

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