Mengeldichten 17, in A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages, p. 478.
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In the intimacy of the One,
Those souls are pure and inwardly naked,
without images, without figures,
As if liberated from time, uncreated,
Freed from their limits in silent latitude
— Hadewijch
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Those souls are pure and inwardly naked,
without images, without figures,
As if liberated from time, uncreated,
Freed from their limits in silent latitude" in the context of "Mengeldichten 17, in A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages, p. 478." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Hadewijch" (Quotes, The Mengeldichten (Poems in Couplets) 17-24: The authorship of these poems is disputed. They are likely either from the hand of Hadewijch herself, as part of a later development of her thought, or written by a close, contemporary disciple given the close linguistic similarities. Mark Jansen (1991) posits that Mengeldichten 17-24 are by Hadewijch but that 25-29 are not. )
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Hadewijch, also known as Hadewijch of Antwerp or Hadewijch of Brabant, was a 13th century Flemish Beguine, poet and mystic of the Catholic Church.
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