Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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  • Pilgrimages
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Schedule and Links
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
    • The Way of the Hermit >
      • Day One: Pythagoras and Archetypes
      • Day Two: From the Desert to the Skelligs
      • Day Three: Hildegard, Julian and Francis
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
  • The Heroine's Path
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • Queens of Heaven and Earth
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
  • Online Classes
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
  • Coaching
  • About

Timeline of Heresy

Hildegard of Bingen tour- preaches against Cathars and others critical of the Church

1184                           Episcopal Inquisition established

1200                           Beguines established in the Low Countries

1203                           Domenic sent on preaching mission to Cathar territory

1207                           Esclrarmonde of Foix debates at the Council of  Pamiers

1209                           St Francis establishes mendicant order

July 22, 1209             Attack at Beziers, France; up to 20,000 put to the sword by the combined forces of the Pope(Not-So) Innocent III, the Cistercians and Philip Agustus, King of France. Beginning of the Albigensian Crusade

1216                           Domenican Order of Preachers established to combat Cathars

1226                           St. Francis dies

1231                           Medieval Papal Inquisition given to Domenicans to control, with formal legal proceedings authorized to include torture

1244                           Fall of Montsegur; flight of Cathars and troubadours to the protective courts of  Spain and Germany

1296                           Spiritual Franciscans declared heretical by Pope Boniface VIII

1310                           Marguerite Porete burned at stake for Mirror of the Simple Soul

 

1311                           Beguines declared heretical by Pope Clement V

1318                           Spiritual Franciscans begin to be burned by Pope John XXII

1319                           Waves of Beguines sent to the stake



A fish cannot drown in water
by Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207-1294)
English version by Jane Hirshfield
Original Language German
A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?

Then shall I leap into love
by Mechthild of Magdeburg
English version by Frank J. Tobin
Original Language German
I cannot dance, Lord, unless you lead me.
If you want me to leap with abandon,
You must intone the song.
Then I shall leap into love,
From love into knowledge,
From knowledge into enjoyment,
And from enjoyment beyond all human sensations
There I want to remain, yet want also to circle higher still

All things
Hadjewich of Antwerp (13th century)
All things are too small to hold me,
I am so vast
In the Infinite
I reach for the Uncreated
I have
touched it,
it undoes me
wider than wide
Everything else
is too narrow
You know this well,
you who are also there

Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Untitled
  • Pilgrimages
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Schedule and Links
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
    • The Way of the Hermit >
      • Day One: Pythagoras and Archetypes
      • Day Two: From the Desert to the Skelligs
      • Day Three: Hildegard, Julian and Francis
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
  • The Heroine's Path
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • Queens of Heaven and Earth
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
  • Online Classes
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
  • Coaching
  • About