Oldal 126 [126]
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ANIKÓ DARÓCZI but with a clarity that now becomes a mirror for the human being who can thus see herself in God. At the same time, by the reference to sight, the next sentence (‘Learn to see what God is’, Leert te besiene wat god es) is being prepared. The eyes must be opened up in order to see. It is as if this seeing were the source and objective of all other admonitions and commandments. The message is: learn to see with the eyes of your soul. The notion of ‘opening’ (ontpluken) the eyes was prepared in the preceding step by means of a twofold crescendo. Its force is then developed in the following sentences through the verbs ‘learn to see’ (besiet). Learn to see what God is. How He is the Truth that lends presence to all things, and the Goodness that makes all richness flow, and the Wholeness that makes all life into a whole, for which they sing Sanctus three times in heaven, because those three Names in their one Being gather all powers, whatever their working from these three Beings. (25-32) Leert te besiene wat god es: / Hoe hies / waerheit / alre dinghen ieghenwerdichlike / ende goetheit / alre rijcheit vloyeleke / ende gheheelheit / alre doghet gheheeleke / omme de welke men singhet .iij. sanctus inden hemel / omme dattie .iij. namen in haren enighen wesene alle doechde versamenen / van welken ambachte si sijn uten desen .iij. wesenen. This long sentence comprises three parts: an introduction, a subordinate clause that contains an elaboration (amplificatio) of ‘what God is’ and consists of a single form repeated three times; subordinated to the second part, is the third, which is an evocation of that which flows forth from God’s nature. The second and third parts are structured in such a way that what is being said has time to imprint itself on the mind of the listener/reader. Hadewijch’s audience is not given information or didactic material to be remembered but experiences a power that gradually prepares it for the praise (laudatio) of God. The latter is almost a form of invocation. The technique deserves special attention. What we are dealing with here is practically a doxological song: ‘for which they sing Sanctus three times’ (the liturgical sanctus, sanctus, sanctus). This song of praise is continued in the following sentences, culminating in the articulation of the core of Hadewijch’s teachings: s 124 Daréczi-Sepsi-Vassänyi_Initiation_155x240.indb 124 6 2020.06.15. 11:04:16
