Also known as "Marriage is the Grave of Love" Zhang Baotong 2016.7.4

After Eloise moved into the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in 1130, Abelard was able to see Eloise regularly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info There he can take care of them as best he can in every way. And he also regarded this place as a paradise where he could escape the torrential rain of attacks and persecution, so that his body and mind could get a moment of peace and respite in it.

Until then, he had been chased and haunted by Satan, like a fugitive, a vagabond, or even a cursed man, banished and attacked. As far as the eye can see, there is a dark sea of bitterness on all sides, and there is always a dangerous conspiracy and a long sword to follow behind it. Not to mention tranquility, even life is often threatened. Therefore, being able to hide in this peaceful monastery can be said to be the best time of his life.

Originally, Abelard was the abbot of the abbey of St. Kildas in Brittany. He came here to convert the Church of the Holy Spirit into a convent and present it to Eloise. However, because of the early days of the monastery, there were many things that he needed to help with. So, after completing the formalities of the gift, he stayed at the invitation of Eloise to help her draw up the canon and give lectures to the nuns.

Eloise then asked Abelard to compose some hymns for the Monastery of the Holy Spirit. Hymns are a vocal genre. Most churches sing many hymns during worship, and even some of the more popular hymns are sung during regular church activities. So, the demand for hymns in churches is great. Abelard, on the other hand, had a talent for both poetry and music, and the greatest charm of his music was the sweetness of language and melody, and the melodies he wrote had a gentle appeal that was deeply loved by the nuns.

In order to compose a hymn, Elois and Abelard often sat in the library for hours, discussing the idea and writing of the hymn. On one occasion, Abelard composed a hymn for morning prayer for Wednesday. Eloise was the first to sing:

You are to remember the Creator

He created the world you live in

Only solar energy is given to those who are in the wind and snow in winter

Bring warmth

The poor in the dark night

There is a moon and stars that bring light to him

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The rich man lies on an oak bed

And the poor have green grass to bring him spiritual satisfaction

Because here the birds sing beautifully

Here, each flower is a unique landscape

Rich, your wealth is squandered in an instant

You live in a house that will eventually collapse

You use the sun in the sky to depict the dome

and adorned it with the stars of the sky

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Under the roof of the sky

The poor fall asleep in the eyes of God

The sun in the sky, and the constellations there

It is the picture of the poor that the Lord has drawn for the poor

Eloise thought the hymn was very well written, so she brought it to the service and had everyone sing it. And everybody loved it, so every time they had a prayer or other event, they had to sing it, and over time, it became popular among people.

Despite the help and collaboration of Eloise, more of the hymns were written in Latin by Abelard alone. During that time, Abelard worked day and night, first writing a hymn for the Cistercian nuns in the traditional style, and then a similar work in a style that was completely alien at the time. A total of 133 hymns were composed and compiled into a collection of poems. However, this hymn was not widely used in the worship of the monastery, so most of his works were later lost, and in the anonymous collection it is difficult to identify which ones were written by Abelard. So, only a few melodies have survived.

The hymns written by Abelard undoubtedly influenced the spiritual life of the monastery of the Holy Spirit to a great extent. In addition to his hymns to major religious festivals, Abelard chose saints as the subject of his hymns, and in his hymns his monastic idea that monks should live a life of poverty and simplicity. The nuns of the Convent of the Holy Spirit refused to accept material donations from outside and lived a poor village life. Although such a way of life may cut them off from the outside world, they believe that this return to basics and loneliness brings people closer to the essence of existence. In his hymn, Abelard also expresses this "view of poverty" in the monastery of the Holy Spirit.

Abelard also wrote about "human love" in "Hymn to the Virgin", but the poem has a religious meaning, expressing the love of the nun for God, which is the "eternal covenant" of Christianity: ?

She walked on a high place bathed in the morning light

She is connected to each other with her heavenly spouse

She made her vows on earth

When He comes, she will stay with Him for eternity

Firmly believe in the wedding covenant

There will be eternal joy there."

The hymn uses metaphors to reflect spiritual love. In the Song of Solomon in the Old Testament, there is a description of the love between God and man, which is full of lustful imagery: "Her ** is like a pair of fawns grazing among the lilies, her teeth are like freshly sheared wool, her hair is like that of a goat lying by Mount Gilead, and her lips are like a thread, her head is like the finest gold, and her hair is thick and thick and black like a raven, her body is like carved ivory, and her legs are like pillars of white jade, resting on a seat of pure gold." This is the new heavens and the new earth that God depicts in the Inspired Book of the New Testament: the destruction of the original heaven and the earth, and the new earth falling from the sky, which the bride prepared for the bridegroom. The meaning of the union of the bride and groom is the connection of the soul with God, the unity of Christ with the Church.

Abelard wrote not only hymns for the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, but also many lamentations for them. Most of these songs are meditations on emotions and affection. And Abelard's six lamentations for the Old Testament are arguably the most famous lamentations of the 12th century. Tragic songs generally use the deaths of historical celebrities or biblical characters as the subject matter, and the music is highly expressive and has a wide vocal range. However, Abelard's "David's Sorrow for Jonathan" is full of sorrow for the love and fate of himself and Eloise:

"Lie down in the tomb with you

I am glad to be so,

For nothing is greater than love;

And I'm alive after you die

I'd rather die,

Because, how can you survive without losing half of your soul?"

From this tragic song, Abelard, as a composer, seems to have begun to focus on the inner experience of emotional experience. Not only did he become a defender of women's rights in the religious class, but he also began to shift his intellectual activity from debate and logic to deep inner experience. Although he had some love experiences with Eloise, it was only in love letters, but it was only in the sad songs that he began to really focus on people's inner experiences of love, pain, and separation.

Eloise was very fond of his sad songs, and she not only took the lead in singing them herself, but also taught everyone to sing them together. This is a great encouragement and encouragement for Abelard's creation. As these songs spread everywhere, Abelard's fame was once again in the spotlight. In particular, those who had been enemies of Abelard began to concentrate their fire on him again.

Once, at the missionary office where he was preaching to the villagers, it was openly said that he was so old that he was still glued to the abbot all day long, unable to be separated from his young love. He also said that although he became a monk, his heart was still shaken by the desires and happiness of this world. Hearing these rumors, he was only angry at first, but the rumors blew like a gust of wind through the fields and villages. Even Eloise and the nuns heard it, and they told it to Eloise. Eloise told these words to Abelard again.

Abelard felt that he could not stay here any longer. So, that afternoon, he wrote a letter to Eloise, "My dear sister, my Eloise, I must leave here, leave you. Otherwise, the rumored poisonous weed will grow into a big tree, and its vines will entangle us so tightly that we can't break free. I know the rumors are spreading against me, but because I'm with you, it's going to hurt you. For the sake of your reputation, I must leave you at once and return to the abbey of St. Kildas in Brittany. So, by the time you read it, I was out of here. But I will write to you often. Because it makes me feel like I'm still with you. Farewell, Eloise. Your brother Abelard. ”

After reading the letter, Eloise went out of the monastery in a frenzy and ran towards the little village not far away. However, when she came to the hut at the edge of the village, she saw that the door of the hut was locked. She knew he was gone. She looked towards the path that led to the distance, but saw that the path was empty, as if a familiar voice echoed in the wind, like a sad song:

The wind is always blowing

Everything about you will be in the unforgiving

Drift away with the wind