Brian Colless
The pearlers we meet in this book were early monks of Syria Mesopotamia Iraq and Persia Iran They saw themselves as pearl divers and pearl merchants searching through asceticism and prayer for the precious pearls of mystical experience Their quest led them into the wilderness to a state of silent solitude in remote caves and hermitages Working from Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum and the Vatican Library and from the Greek monastery of Saint Catherine in the wilderness of Sinai and the Coptic monastery of the Syrians Der es Suriani in the Egyptian desert Brian E Colless has produced a volume which draws modern readers into this little known world The Wisdom Of The Pearlers An Anthology of Syriac Christian Mysticism.
Brian Colless
Chapter 4: the pearl of wisdom
Beyond the standard exegesis and prayer of the established ecclesiastical hierarchy is a world of monks rejecting the corporeal world Few the likes of Ephrem of Edessa and Isaac of Nineveh served the church but the majority devoted themselves to mysticism prayer and the purification of the mind body and soul Syriac is a poetic language that is full of symbolism even when interpreting and expounding biblical literature In this case we see the pearl as a recurring central theme in works of instruction and mysticism This is an essential read to anyone interested in Christian mysticism or the third tradition Syriac Christianity 264
| The Wisdom Of The Pearlers: An Anthology of Syriac Christian Mysticism By Brian Colless |
| 0879073160 |
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