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The Life of the Servant (Paperback)
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'If this is not heaven, I do not know what heaven is, for all the
suffering that can ever be put into words, could not enable anyone
to earn such a reward and for ever possess it.' A central figure in
Christian mystical literature, the Dominican Prior Henry Suso was
the author of the seminal work The Life of the Servant. Transcribed
by an enlightened amanuensis without his explicit consent, Suso
began burning the manuscript until a heavenly missive from God
decreed that the text should be spared further desecration. The
remaining fragments of that conflagration are vividly resurrected
in this volume, elegantly translated by James M. Clark. Suso's
subjective account of the spiritual and invisible world, told in
prose of unsurpassed poetic beauty, is reflective of the ardent
spirituality of his devotion. Informed by severe mortifications,
visions, ecstasies and revelations, this canonical text endures as
a sublime cultural artefact. Resonating profoundly with
contemporary concerns about austerity and materialism, this classic
text of mysticism is once again accessible to a new generation of
readers and to those existing admirers seeking to re-evaluate its
many virtues.
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