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The Medieval Church · c. 760–780
Letter on the Three Stages of the Solitary Life
Joseph Hazzaya · 8th century
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What it is
A map of the spiritual life in three stages — bodily, psychic, spiritual — with a precise phenomenology of the lights and stirrings that accompany each.
Why it lasted
The most systematic East Syriac mystical theology, by an author born a Zoroastrian and sold into slavery as a child.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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