{"product_id":"book-of-the-beloved-mairi-colme-9781434344021","title":"Book of the Beloved","description":"A Christian mystical text containing the revelation made to a young girl in a Benedictine monastery in the mountains of Austria in 1974. It is a revelation of the extraordinary quality of the love of God communicated, not through light and joy, but through a dark and powerful suffering, which she identified as \"the mystery of Christ's cross.\" The original manuscript was faithfully written down as a direct record of this experience. It takes the form of a dialogue or interaction between God as the Lover of the soul, and \"Maria\" as His Beloved. A major theme is the struggle of the Beloved to overcome the \"Yes buts\" of human nature in order to be able to say a \"perfect Yes\" to her Maker. Each dialogue moves through suffering and miscomprehension towards final happiness and liberation, prefiguring the change from death to resurrection. The manuscript remained a puzzle to its writer for eighteen years, at which point she gained an insight into the moment of \"self-yielding\" which transforms the suffering into bliss. It was then, whilst staying in an Austrian farmhouse on a mountain-side, that she wrote the poetry which re-interprets the text, as a hymn to \"the Star-Love\" of ecstatic intensity. Over thirty years after the original event, realising the experience may also have meaning for others, the writer worked on the manuscripts. During a period of deep reflection at her home in Scotland, she then wrote the commentaries. She hopes that this book, a lifetime's endeavour, may prove enlightening to others as to the nature of God's love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mairi Colme\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1434344029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781434344021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authorhouse UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.55d","brand":"Mairi Colme","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48439093133567,"sku":"9781434344021","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2882f520-cf79-4e24-9dba-fb62492c98fc.jpg?v=1777175377","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/book-of-the-beloved-mairi-colme-9781434344021","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}