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24 Anne Mouron but one will note that, in its three components (text, tree-diagrams and illustrations of praying hermits), the poem embodies the three stages of the lectio divina: lectio (the text), meditatio (the tree-diagrams) and oratio (the praying hermits). Praying with Images Tree-Diagrams Although The Desert of Religion begins with a quotation from the Psalms emphasizing the concept of wilderness and the desert, the Prologue ends with a different verbal image, that of the forest: In this spiritual forest trees grow with branches and boughs: some grow to heaven and some down to hell, some to stand and some to be felled; some grow in a spiritual enclosure, and some to be removed by digging with the turf (ll.43–48). It is worth observing that, from the early Middle Ages onwards, the desert and the forest came to be regarded in the same way, that is, as an area of solitude where life was hard. Jacques Le Goff, for example, mentions that, according to Columban’s biographer Jonas of Bobbio (c.640), the Irish saint was offered a place to live in the Vosges which he ‘liked … because it was in the middle of a forest: “a vast desert, a harsh solitude, a rocky terrain”’. 14 In this view, therefore, these two loci, the desert and the forest, are not mutually exclusive. In The Desert of Religion’s forest, twenty trees, good and bad, are depicted, including a Tree of Virtues and a Tree of Sins, a Tree of Humility and a Tree of Pride, a Tree of Abuses in Religious Places and a Tree of Abuses in the World, a Tree of the Creed, a Tree of the Seven Sacraments and of the Seven Virtues, and a Tree of the Seven Deeds of Mercy. Indeed, apart from the Prologue and Epilogue, every other section of The Desert of Religion begins and ends with a reference to a tree, as the following lines illustrate: The first tree of this beautiful forest is the tree of virtues which is always pure and firmly plants its roots in meekness. Of this tree virtues sprout forth and spring upwards and spread its leaves, and they grow both with branches and boughs. (ll.49–54) 14 Quoted in Jacques Le Goff, The Medieval Imagination, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago: U. of Chicago P, 1992), 51 (my emphasis).
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