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child’ what He is and how He treats ‘His maidens’ (meiskenen). He must
devour her, swallow her up, and there, in that unity the two shall dwell in
each other. What is noticeable here is the spatial, the flowing and the sensual
elements that emerge from the doxological, mystical litany:
May God make known to you, dear child,
who He is
and how He deals
with his servants
and specifically with His handmaids;
and devour you in Him:
where the depth of His wisdom is,
there He will teach you
what He is,
and how wondrously sweetly
one beloved dwells in the other
and so through and through indwells the other
that neither of them recognizes himself,
but they mutually enjoy each other
mouth in mouth,
and heart in heart,
and body in body,
and soul in soul,
and one sweet divine nature flowing through them both,
and both of them one through each other
and also both remain,
yes so they remain.
God doe u weten, lieue kint/ wie hi es / Ende wies hi pleghet /met sinen knechten
/ Ende nameleke met sinen meiskenen; Ende verslende v un hem: daer de diepheit
siere vroetheit es / daer sal hi v leren / wat hi es / Ende hoe wonderleke soeteleke
/dat een lief in dat ander woent / Ende soe dore dat ander woent / Dat haerre en
gheen hem seluen en onderkent / Mer si ghebruken onderlinghe ende elc anderen /
Mont in mont / ende herte in herte / Ende lichame in lichame / Ende ziele in ziele
/ Ende ene soete godlike nature doer hen beiden vloyende / Ende si beide een dore
hen seluen / Ende al eens beide bliuen / Ja ende bliuende.
Although she states that it is only God himself who can teach the ‘dear child’,
she at the same time suggests to her what obtaining the knowledge would be
like and in which space this would take place. The highest points of Hadwijch’s
creative mystical language generated by the experience of unity are the texts
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