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The
Chapter known as
The Twelvefold Renunciation of God
and the Unity thereof
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1. O my God, Thou mighty One, Thou Creator of all
things, I renounce unto Thee the kisses of my mistress, and
the murmur of her mouth, and all the trembling of her firm
young breast; so that I may be rolled a flame in Thy fiery
embrace, and be consumed in the unutterable joy of Thine
everlasting rapture.
2. O my God, Thou mighty One, Thou Creator of all
things, I renounce unto Thee the soft-lipp’d joys of life, and
the honey-sweets of this world, and all the subtilities of the
flesh; so that I may be feasted on the fire of Thy passion, and
be consumed in the unutterable joy of Thine everlasting
rapture.
3. O my God, Thou mighty One, Thou Creator of all
things, I renounce unto Thee the ceaseless booming of the
waves, and the fury of the storm, and all the turmoil of the
wind-swept waters; so that I may drink of the porphyrine foam
of Thy lips, and be consumed in the unutterable joy of Thine
everlasting rapture.
4. O my God, Thou mighty One, Thou Creator of all
things, I renounce unto Thee the whispers of the desert, and
the moan of the simoom, and all the silence of the sea of
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