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The Mystical Union of Two Souls Love STRONGER IS THAN DEATH CYNTHIA BOURGE Foreword 6yn&rother David Steindl-Rast, QSB $21.00 (Canada: $32.00) This is a love story like no other. It describes the incandescent relationship — between two hermits a seventy-year-old monk and a fifty-year-old woman Episcopal priest — and medieval scholar who met at a Trappist monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. Both had studied Westernesoteric traditions and believed it was possible for two souls to work and grow together "from here to eternity." Brother Raphael Robin and Cynthia Bour- geault had three tempestuous and intense years togetherlearningwhatitmeanstotrulylove some- one, and then Rafe had a heart attack and died. Cynthia was urged to let him rest in peace (as we all areonthedeath ofalovedone)butshe trusted the invincible certainty of her heart. Several years later, Cynthia remains fully in touch with Rafe, believing that whatever he may be doing in thebeyondaffectsher,andthatwhatshedoeshere affects him. Cynthia Bourgeault's writing is robust and clear-eyed, and it shines. Her book is the story of what happened both before and afterRafe's death, aswellasaguidebookforotherscalledtothepath ofconscious love. j\ <* i M^ ;cv Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 http://archive.org/details/loveisstrongerthOOcynt m^?B-^u LOVE STRONGER THAN DEATH IS Alsoby CynthiaBourgeault Herod the Great (play) TheWakefield Resurrection Play Singingthe Psalms (audiotapes) >5Vl o v e is -^ stronger THAN DEATH The Mystical Union of Two Souls CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT BELL TOWER A NEW YORK JT- Some ofthe material in this bookfirst appeared in slightlydifferentform in Gnosismagazine,winter1997, andin CommonBoundary, summer1999. A complete listing ofpermissions to reprint previouslypublished material appearsonpage 223. © Copyright 1997, 1999byCynthiaBourgeault Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedortransmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo- copying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, withoutpermissioninwritingfrom thepublisher. Published by Bell Tower, 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. Memberofthe Crown PublishingGroup. Random House, Inc. NewYork,Toronto, London, Sydney,Auckland www.randomhouse.com BellTowerandcolophonareregisteredtrademarksofRandomHouse,Inc. PrintedintheUnited States ofAmerica DesignbyBarbaraBalch LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Bourgeault, Cynthia. Love is strongerth—andeath : the mysticalunionoftwo souls/ CynthiaBourgeault. 1sted. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. — 1. Bou—rgeault, Cynthia. —2. Futurelife Christianity. 3. Love Religious aspects Christianity. I. Title. BT902.B67 1999 — 283'.092 dc2i [B] 98-56526 CIP ISBN 0-609-60473-2 10 987654321 FirstEdition FOR LOUIS NUMA ROBIN JR. Hereandtheredoes notmatter. We mustbestillandstillmoving Into anotherintensity Forafurtherunion, adeepercommunion. t. s. eliot,FourQuartets
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