“If by God’s Holy Ghost thou art beguiled,
There will be born in thee the Eternal Child.
If it’s like Mary, virginal and pure,
Then God will impregnate your soul for sure.
God make me pregnant, and his Spirit shadow me,
That God may rise up in my soul and shatter me.
What good does Gabriel’s “Ave, Mary” do
Unless he give me that same greeting too?”
– Angelus Silesius*
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* Angelus Silesius, Cherubinischer Wandersmann, II, 101–104, quoted by Carl Jung, “Mysterium Coniuncitonis“, Collected Works, vol. 14, paragraph 444.
Image Credit: By Toros Taronatsi – Donabédian, Patrick (1987) (in French) Les arts arméniens, Paris: Mazenod, p. 277 ISBN: 2850880175., Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons.
Interrupting the Silence 
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