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The Medieval Church · c. 1000–1022
The Hymns of Divine Love
Symeon the New Theologian · 949–1022
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What it is
Fifty-eight poems of startling intimacy on union with God, describing the divine light seen and the body itself made a member of Christ.
Why it lasted
The most personal mystical poetry in Greek, and so frank about religious experience that copyists sometimes softened it.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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