Translation by James Rendel Harris (1852 - 1941)
No way is hard See original
Language: English  after the Aramaic (ܪܡܝܐ)
True poetry -- pure and simple
1 No way is hard where there is a simple heart.
2 Nor is there any wound where the thoughts are upright:
3 Nor is there any storm in the depth of the illuminated thought:
4 Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty, there is nothing that is divided.
5 The likeness of what is below is that which is above;
for everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination
of those that are without knowledge.
6 ... Hallelujah.
Composition:
- Set to music by Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000), "No way is hard", op. 5 no. 1 (1935) [ medium voice and piano ], from 3 Odes of Solomon, no. 1
Text Authorship:
- by James Rendel Harris (1852 - 1941), "Ode 34", appears in The Forgotten Books of Eden, in The Odes of Solomon, first published 1926
Based on:
- a text in Aramaic (ܪܡܝܐ) by Bible or other Sacred Texts , from the Greek, 1st century A.D.? [text unavailable]
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