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Hadewijch - Letters - Letter XVIII
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
from The Classics of Western Spirituality series - Letter XVIII.
And in this unity into which I was taken and where I was enlightened,
We were one without distinction...just as a beloved may receive her lover in the full pleasure of seeing and hearing, with the one becoming one with the other
I understood this Being and knew it more clearly than, by speech, reason, or sight, one can know anything that is knowable on earth