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Rolle, Richard - Incendium Amoris - The discordant sound of human music
Identifier
013674
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Richard Rolle - Incendium Amoris
For the sweet song of the spiritual .... is not in agreement [is in discord] with songs heard with one's ears - the exterior songs, which are played in churches or other places.
[Celestial music] disagrees most of all with the human voice and the outward form that material ears hear; but between angelic melodies [there is] acceptable harmony to those who have heard it.
See to it and try to understand, because it shows you why I fled the honour of singing in the churches of God.