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The Threshold of Paradise
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By: David Jones
Publisher: Original Writing Ltd
Published: August 2011
Pages: 354
Categories: Literature
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781908477293
ASIN: 1908477296

The verse contained in the present volume was composed between 1980 and 1984, often under difficult circumstances, as may be picked up from an attentive reading of what is written between the lines The verse contained in the present volume was composed between 1980 and 1984, often under difficult circumstances, as may be picked up from an attentive reading of what is written between the lines, the reason being that the very notion of literary activity was not particularly encouraged in the context of the Carthusian cloister, at least in the early eighties in France. It is hardly an exaggeration to note that the problem of the compatibility or otherwise of literary output with the strictly contemplative life became in this instance a veritable "test case". This case was subsequently picked up and studied in detail by a very competent scholar, Eva Schmid (later Schmid-Morwald), who produced a magisterial and balanced doctoral thesis on it at Salzburg University, published in 1994 under the title The Lyre and the Cross: Incompatibility or symbiosis of the poetic vein and strict monasticism in the poetry of Alun Idris Jones, a Welsh Novice Monk. It is hoped to reprint this study in the present series, with Original Writing, Dublin. To resume the problem in a few words, it is as follows. The contemplative life in its purity seeks no justification for its existence outside the rights of the Creator, to whose gratuitous praise and adoration it has to be exclusively orientated. It is seen as an anticipation of the future life, and those who are called to that specific form of life within the Mystical Body are entrusted with a role on earth that corresponds closely to the role in heaven of the angels that are not called to intervene directly in the material service of mankind but only in the continuous praise of the thrice-holy God before His throne of Majesty.

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