Life of the Servant Suso HenryPaperback
Life of the Servant Suso HenryPaperback '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…
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Life of the Servant Suso HenryPaperback
'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. The remaining fragments of that conflagration are vividly resurrected in this volume, elegantly translated by James M. Clark. 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.
Informed by severe mortifications, visions, ecstasies and revelations, this canonical 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.