


Although the Song of Songs, a brief book in the old Testament, contains no explicit mention of God, the passionate love poetry became for Bernard a springboard into a major exposition of Scripture and an illuminated allegory of the spiritual life. Simply said, this gentle...


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By far the greatest of all the mystical texts, explaining the relationship between God and the soul, divine and human love; the inspiration for the greatest Christian poetry of Dante and St. John of the Cross, by the founder of the silent Trappist order of monks.
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