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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged christian mysticism.
An essay on the so-called acheiropoieta images, the tradition of the Veil of Veronica, and the theological mystery of the divine face imprinted as a sacred seal within Christian mysticism.
Read essay →An essay on Tiferet, the sixth Sephirah of the Kabbalah, and its solar symbolism as the heart of the Tree of Life, a bridge between the higher and the lower, and a figure of the Inner Christ in Christian mysticism.
Read essay →An essay on how the archetypes of Aries and Leo converse with the Christian liturgical calendar, revealing the Wheel of the Year as a mirror of mysteries older than the Church itself.
Read essay →An essay on Christian kenosis, the figure of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah 53, and Kabbalistic readings of suffering as a path of approach to the Divine.
Read essay →An essay on 'The Interior Castle' by Saint Teresa of Ávila, journeying through the seven mansions of the soul as a symbolic itinerary of the mystical encounter with God.
Read essay →An essay on the Christian apophatic tradition and the anonymous medieval work that teaches how to seek God not through knowledge, but through the love that dwells in silence.
Read essay →An essay on Meister Eckhart, the Dominican from Thuringia who dared to conceive of the eternal birth of God in the human soul, and on the paths of detachment in Christian mysticism.
Read essay →An essay on Christian apophatic mysticism, the anonymous English treatise The Cloud of Unknowing, and contemplative silence as a way of approaching the divine mystery.
Read essay →An essay on the contemplative path of Christianity, journeying through inner silence, attentive presence and the mystery of mystical union with God.
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