#Angela of Foligno

[loneberry]

From Amy Hollywood’s "Beautiful as a Wasp": Angela of Foligno and Georges Bataille

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Ecstatic darkness in the void. Angela of Foligno is the original badass.

#literature #mysticism #christian mysticism #Angela of Foligno #georges bataille #bataille #amy hollywood #masochism #negative theology #theology #christianity

[franksinatraisdead]

angela of foligno / pen on tracing paper

© jonah brock 2022

#angela of foligno #christian mysticism #art #artists on tumblr #pen drawing #christian art #spiritual art

[tanogabo]

(via 4 gennaio, Sant’Angela da Foligno)

#religione #angela da foligno #assisi

[dogmotifz]

Margaret of Cortana in Holy Anorexia, Rudolph Bell / Yvette of Huy in Lives of the Anchoresses, Anneke Mulder-Bakker / Veronica Giuliani in Holy Anorexia, Rudolph Bell / Catherine of Siena in A Hagiography of St. Catherine of Siena / Angela of Foligno in Holy Anorexia, Rudolph Bell

Some of the most sexual parts of these hagiographies

[segretecose]

who's doing it like angela of foligno that's right nobody

#this level self insertism... inspirational

[blackwaterridge]

Beatrice is not (only) a symbol [of theology]. Dante imagines her, literally, as a woman who has an understanding of God and speculative language, modeling her - I like to think - in the likeness of such figures as Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hildegard of Bingen, Juliana of Norwich, Marguerite Porete, and Angela da Foligno, magistra theologorum.

Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

#the girls…

[apilgrimsprogress]

#o #medieval mysticism #polls

[nicklloydnow]

“Saintliness is a negative sort of perfection. I love life too much to attain it. Because of my reserves of health, I remain a heavenly interloper. There are illnesses that can only be treated with a good dose of divinity, but I prefer the alleviation of pain provided by earthly tranquilizers. I don't have the gift of infinite joy and pain which used to throw Saint Teresa of Avila and Angela da Foligno into ecstasy. I am healthy, that is I can stand and talk about God, not fall down at the very thought of him. What a heavy price one must pay for one's health!” - Emil Cioran, ‘Tears and Saints’ (1937) [p. 60]

#cioran #emil cioran #bataille #georges bataille #tears and saints

[loneberry]

some notes on sufism

The other day I went to the Harvard Divinity School Muslims iftar (the meal that breaks the fast during Ramadan), which was followed by a concert of Turkish music that is traditionally performed in Sufi lodges in Istambul. Before the music began, the professor I’ve been auditing Islamic literature classes with read some verses from Rumi’s Masnavi and offered a meditation on fasting through an interpretation of the lines: “If you have closed this mouth, another mouth is opened, which becomes an eater of the morsels of mysteries.” That is the nature of mystical knowledge—gnosis (or maʿrifa) is not understood intellectually, but tasted (dhawq). The closing of the bodily mouth is an opening of the spiritual mouth. He asked us to listen to the music with the inner heart.

I went with my friend S, who has been nudging me toward conversion. I’ve been allergic to religion most of my life because I’m not really much of a joiner. I distinctly remember being in (Catholic) Sunday School as a child and thinking to myself: This sounds fake to me. As in, made-up, irrational. The people who treated the fanciful stories like fact seemed like crackpots to me, even to my child-mind. I don’t think I ever believed in Santa either—I guess my disposition was innately skeptical; perhaps that contributed to my identification with anarchism from when I was 13 or 14. Yet at the same time, my feeling for the invisible, for the world of the dead, was always quite strong, even when it was unstitched from a belief system. As a kid I would wander the house alone at night, thinking I could hear my dead parakeet chirping from a shoebox in the garage.  

I hated Sunday School. While I was always good at school-school (at least when I was a child, before I became an incorrigible truant), I was terrible at Sunday School. Because it seemed like hocus-pocus to me, none of it stuck. My classmates had internalized all the stories I thought were outlandish. During mass I would think exclusively about donuts, the ones we would buy from the ladies who would sell them as a fundraiser. I’ve thought about returning to Catholicism, but sadly, after the post-1970s political realignment in the US, all the leftist Catholics (the Marxists who loathed the Vietnam War and exposed the FBI’s COINTELPRO) are gone. As much as I love reading Catholic mystics (St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross, Angela of Foligno, Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Marguerite Porete, and others), Christian mysticism is more individualist than Islamic mysticism—asceticism and separation from the group is the way to commune with God, while Islamic mysticism is rooted in communal practices like sama (singing, dancing, reciting poetry, playing/listening to music) and dhikr (communal prayer for the remembrance of God). While Christian mysticism bears the imprint of the Neoplatonist trajectory of ascent, for Sufism, the trajectory is shaped like a paisley. After fana (annihilation of the ego/union with God/dying before you die), there is baqaa or subsistence, a return of sorts. 

I also much prefer the Islamic orientation to the created world than the Christian one, for in Islam, everything in creation can be understood as the breath or speech of God. The Hadith on which Sufi cosmology is based reads, “I was a hidden Treasure and Loved to be known, so I created the world that I might be known.” All of creation is a mirror to reflect God (this is why you must polish the rust from your heart, for the human heart can manifest all the names and qualities of God). In the Islamic mystical tradition there is an affirmation of the created world even though God and creation are not the same (as is the case in Pantheism). Everything has ontology. Nothing has ontology. The Sufi metaphysicians ask us to see with two eyes. The drop is not the ocean at the same time it cannot be separated from the ocean.

7 years ago I read Reza Aslan’s God: A Human History. After sampling the platter of world religions I joked to myself, Hmmm, if I had to pick the one I vibe with most, I guess it would be Sufism (Islamic mysticism). I didn’t know anything about Sufism other than the Rumi and Hafez poetry I read as a teenager, but the way Aslan described Ibn ‘Arabi’s concept of 'wahadat al-wujud' (or Unity of Being) reminded me of Spinozism. I guess what I’m trying to say is...I just think Sufi metaphysics is...right. Or, it speaks to how I tend to think about reality. It’s not something I can prove (that I don’t exist, while at the same time I am part of the ALL that is God), but it makes the most sense to me.

In the Sufi literature class, S jokes to me: “You’re the only non-Muslim in this class.” The same was probably true at the iftar + concert. S points to someone from the class: “The Maoist is a recent convert. This is their first time fasting for Ramadan.” “Is [our professor] fasting?” “Of course. I saw him at the iftar last night and talked to him about translation. I told him it’s ghastly to try to fit Persian verse into an English rhyme scheme. He agreed with me.” (We are clearly partisans of blank verse translations… yet so much of what’s out there has been poorly translated or not translated at all.) 

Much of the lyrics sung with the gorgeous music were verses written by the great Turkish-language Sufi poet and mystic Yunus Emre ("the Dante of Turkey," I whispered to S). S was ecstatic listening to the haunting ney (a kind of flute). We just so happened to be sitting in the same row as the professor. I tapped S and whispered that it looked like he was really enjoying the music. He was smiling with his eyes closed and swaying his head from side to side. He looked like he was having...a profound experience. This prof usually has what I guess you’d call ‘resting bitch face’ (which I always found funny because it runs counter to his sweet and gentle personality). But not at the concert. Pure bliss was painted on his face. It was then that it dawned on me that Sufism, for him, was probably something more than a scholarly interest. I thought about what it must have been like to discover something so beautiful and profound, and to know, in that moment, that your life will be changed forever—you might go off to Iran and devote your entire life to studying medieval texts. 

Of course this Ramadan I am thinking continuously about the genocide in Gaza, how an entire population is being starved to death by the sadistic leaders of Israel, how terrible it must be to be bombed and shot at during the holy month, or to break your fast with boiled grass and animal feed. I feel truly ashamed to come from a country that is complicit in this violence. I hope everyone continues to apply pressure to end this war—it feels hopeless now, but it is making a difference.

#mysticism #sufism #islamic mysticism #music #literature #sufi poetry #poetry #religion #ramadan

[mattpoitrass6thgoal]

Halloween costumes from what I know so far

Stralman: Dr Evil

Bergeron: Top Gun

Gryz: Dumbledore

McAvoy: Hagrid

Zacha: Dwight from the Office

Zboril: Angela from the Office

Greer: NASA Astronaut

Swayman: Donkey

Ullmark: Human Princess Fiona

Cliffy: Shrek

Foligno: Beetlejuice (wedding version)

Smith: Phantom of the opera

Lauko: in a cage

Krejci: Ted Lasso

Marchand: Tommy Lee

Hall: Elvis Presley

Reilly: Harry Potter

Nosek: looks like the joker

Coyle: Miss Trunchbull

Lindholm, Freddy, Forbort, Pasta I don’t know what they truly are. Carlo I haven’t seen a full photo

#kim talks to no one

[doomsayings]

complete poems of georges bataille / saint angela of foligno

#angela #bataille #words #god-shaped hole

[givemearmstopraywith]

sorry if you've been asked this before, but are there any key texts for sexual theology that you recommend?

sexual theology doesn't exist lol. the closest you'll get is sexual moral theology which on the whole can be a bit cringe. but i recommend medieval mystics like julian of norwich, hildegard of bingen, catherine of siena, angela of foligno, mechthild of magdeberg etc; their work is mostly online. in terms of scholarship: caroline bynum walker, jeffrey kripal, marcella althaus reid, elliot r wolfson, sarah coakley, and grace jantzen.

[ciceroballtorture]

being on tumblr has ruined me fr. i literally said out loud angela da foligno!!!!!!???? like a lunatic as soon as i read the name on the page. and i had to explain to a few relatives what would justify the outburst and avoid saying its bc my tumblr mutuals put her on the dash a lot...like girl perhaps being on here when im 30 is the least of my issues

#.text #reading il nome della rosa btw fhdhdh

[segretecose]

ha my sisters in christ just tried to read a book that wasn't the book of divine consolation of the blessed angela of foligno. i just shut their ass the f**k down. we're on a 48 hour the book of divine consolation of the blessed angela of foligno lock down

[anastpaul]

Apparition of Our Lady to Saint Angela de Foligno (1285), The Translation of the Relics of Saint Mark, the Evangelist, St John Bosco “Don Bosco” and Memorials of the Saints - 31 January

Apparition of Our Lady to Saint Angela de Foligno (1285) – 31 January:HERE:https://anastpaul.com/2021/01/31/septuagesima-sunday-apparition-of-our-lady-to-saint-angela-de-foligno-1285-the-translation-of-the-relics-of-saint-mark-the-evangelist-and-memorials-of-the-saints-31-january/ The Translation of the Relics of Saint Mark, the…

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#apparitionofourladytostangeladefoligno #bllouisedeglialbertoni #saints31january #staedanofferns #stfrancescobianchia #stjohnbosco #translationoftherelicsofstmark

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