{"id":401,"date":"2012-12-24T01:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T06:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/?p=401"},"modified":"2013-07-09T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T09:00:41","slug":"the-virgin-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sulaymanibnqiddees\/2012\/12\/24\/the-virgin-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virgin Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rumi\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The body is like Mary. Each of us has a Jesus, but so long as no pain appears, our Jesus is not born. If pain never comes, our Jesus goes back to his place of origin on the same secret path he had come, and we remain behind, deprived and without a share of him.\u00a0<\/em><\/address>\n

trans. Annemarie Schimmel.\u00a0I Am Wind, You are Fire; The Life and Work of Rumi. \u00a0<\/em>Shambhala, Boston 1996. p. 122<\/p>\n

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If you bathe your soul for one instant\u00a0in the veil of his love<\/h6>\n
\u00a0Like Mary, from one breath, you’ll see Jesus conceived<\/h6>\n
If like Mary, you conceive the Messiah without a father<\/h6>\n
Your face will turn saffron-yellow (from pain)<\/h6>\n


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Angelus Silesius<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Virgin I must be and bring God forth from me<\/h6>\n
should ever I be granted divine felicity.<\/h6>\n
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\u00a0When God lay hidden in the womb of a young virgin,<\/h6>\n
It happened that the point fully contained the circle.<\/h6>\n
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God is my center, if I do encompass Him<\/h6>\n
My circle he becomes, I am enclosed in Him.<\/h6>\n

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The Virgin is a crystal, her son celestial light;<\/h6>\n
Wholly she is pierced by him, yet unimpaired she shines.<\/h6>\n
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The soul that’s viriginal and naught but God conceives<\/h6>\n
Can pregnant be with God as often as it pleases.<\/h6>\n

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trans. from Maria Shrady. \u00a0Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer<\/em>. \u00a0Paulist Press, 1986.<\/p>\n

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