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Horologium Sapientiae was written by the German Dominican Henry Suso between 1328 and 1330. The book belongs to the tradition of Rhineland mystics and German mysticism. It was qui…
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Horologium Sapientiae was written by the German Dominican Henry Suso between 1328 and 1330. The book belongs to the tradition of Rhineland mystics and German mysticism. It was quickly translated into a range of European languages and (alongside Pseudo Bonaventure's Meditations on the Life of Christ and Ludolph of Saxony's Life of Christ) it was one of the three most popular European devotional texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The book was translated into Middle English as The Seven Points of True Love and Everlasting Wisdom; a translation into modern English renders the Latin title "Clock of Wisdom" as Wisdom's Watch on the Hours. It circulated widely in vernacular languages such as English, French, Dutch, and Italian as well as surviving in more than 233 medieval Latin manuscripts.
Henry Suso was a follower of Meister Eckhart and, controversially, defended his writings after his condemnation. The book follows the style of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, recording both Suso's frustrations and disappointments as well as spiritualising ways of dealing with them.
In chapter 9 Suso records an imaginary conversation with God in which he makes a comment about it not being surprising that God has so few friends when religious people encounter so many difficulties. This comment may have influenced traditions which claimed that Teresa of Avila made the quip "no wonder you have so few friends Lord, when you treat them so badly."
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