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The Soul of Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Conrad Pepler O.P.
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Gardeners sometimes say that a certain degree of drought strengthens the roots of plants. The grass of a newly growing lawn finding no moisture above the ground in the light and heat of the sun thrusts its roots deeper and deeper into the soil in search of life-giving refreshment. Similarly the soul which is left by God in a dry and waste land abandons the hope of refreshment in the external life of experience and the senses and begins to sink more completely into the reality of God, but in the darkness of the lower soil, in the darkness of faith as opposed to the distinctness of emotional experience.

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Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 4 , Issue 40 , October 1949 , pp. 149 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © 1949 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 And perhaps Mother Julian had heard it from his own lips or read it from his pen.

2 Eight Chapters on Perfection. A translation made by Hilton. (Minor Works, p. 103).

3 The whole of the chapter must be studied. Miss Warrack modernises the first line quoted above as ‘Anent our Substance and our Sense-part, both together may rightly be called our Soul’.

4 Note that Mother Julian often speaks of the soul itself as the life rather than as the source of the life which is the more scholastic attitude to the idea of the soul