Desert, Solitude And Mystical Poetry Comments

Much of the biblical narrative; the pascha Christi, the call of the people of God out of Egypt through the Red Sea into the Desert and to the Promised Land, the theme of the Old and the New man; the theme of the fallen world and the new creation is dervied and unified by the motive of the desert.
The biblical testimony maps the way to the promised land through the desert, and periodically throughout the course of spiritual history, men have gone into the desert to find God.

God calls the monk and the mystic to the desert and inspires him to write mystical poetry. It is a divine inspiration.
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