William Law • A SERIOUS CALL TO DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE, AND THE SPIRIT OF LOVE
Abraham Isaac Kook • THE LIGHTS OF PENITENCE, LIGHTS OF HOLINESS, THE MORAL PRINCIPLES, ESSAYS, AND POEMS
Ibn `Ata' Illah • THE BOOK OF WISDOM AND KWAJA ABDULIAH
Ansari • INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS
Johann Arndt • TRUE CHRISTIANITY
Richard of St. Victor • THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS, THE MYSTICAL ARK, AND BOOK THREE OF THE TRINITY
Origen • AN EXHORTATION TO MARTYRDOM, PRAYER, and SELECTED WORKS
Catherine of Genoa • PURGATION AND PURGATORY, THE SPIRITUAL DIALOGUE
Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands • SACRED MYTHS, DREAMS, VISIONS, SPEECHES, HEALING FORMULAS, RITUALS AND CEREMONIALS
Teresa of Avila • THE INTERIOR CASTLE
Apocalyptic Spirituality • TREATISES AND LETTERS OF LACTANTIUS, ADSO OF MONTIER-EN-DER, JOACHIM OF FIORE, THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALS, SAVONAROIA
Athanasius • THE LIFE OF ANTONY, A LETTER TO MARCELLINUS
Catherine of Siena • THE DIALOGUE
Sharafuddin Maneri • THE HUNDRED LETTERS
Martin Luther • THEOLOGIA GERMANICA
Native Mesoamerican Spirituality • ANCIENT MYTHS, DISCOURSES, STORIES, DOCTRINES, HYMNS, POEMS FROM THE AZTEC, YUCATEC, QUICHE-MAYA AND OTHER SACRED TRADITIONS
Symeon the New Theologian • THE DISCOURSES
Ibn Al'-Arabi • THE BEZELS OF WISDOM
Hadewijch • THE COMPLETE WORKS
Philo of Alexandria • THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE, THE GIANTS, AND SELECTIONS
George Herbert • THE COUNTRY PARSON, THE TEMPLE
Unknown • THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING
John and Charles Wesley 9 SELECTED WRITINGS AND HYMNS
Meister Eckhart • THE ESSENTIAL SERMONS, COMMENTARIES, TREATISES AND DEFENSE
Francisco de Osuna • THE THIRD SPIRITUAL ALPHABET
Jacopone da Todi • THE IAUDS
Fakhruddin `Iraqi • DIVINE FLASHES
Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl • THE LIGHT OF THE EYES
Early Dominicans • SELECTED WRITINGS
John Climacus • THE I-ADDER OF DIVINE ASCENT
Francis and Clare • THE COMPLETE WORKS
Gregory Palamas • THE TRLYDS
Pietists • SELECTED WRITINGS
The Shakers • TWO CENTURIES OF SPIRITUAL REFLECTION
Zohar • THE BOOK OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Luis de Leon • THE NAMES OF CHRIST
Quaker Spirituality • SELECTED WRITINGS
Emanuel Swedenborg • THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN AND SOUL-BODY INTERACTION
Augustine of Hippo • SELECTED WRITINGS
John Cassian • CONFERENCES
Johannes Tauler • SERMONS
John Ruusbroec • THE SPIRITUAL ESPOUSALS AND OTHER WORKS
Ibn `Abbad of Ronda • LETTERS ON THE SUFI PATH
Angelus Silesius • THE CHERUBINIC WANDERER
The Early Kabbalah •
Meister Eckhart • TEACHER AND PREACHER
John of the Cross • SELECTED WRITINGS
Pseudo-Dionysius • THE COMPLETE WORKS
Bernard of Clairvaux • SELECTED WORKS
Devotio Moderna • BASIC WRITINGS
The Pursuit of Wisdom • AND OTHER WORKS BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING
Richard Rolle • THE ENGLISH WRITINGS
Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal • LETTERS OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
Albert and Thomas • SELECTED WRITINGS
Robert Bellarmine • SPIRITUAL WRITINGS
Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain • A HANDBOOK OF SPIRITUAL COUNSEL
Henry Suso 0 THE EXEMPLAR, WITH TWO GERMAN SERMONS
Berulle and the French School • SELECTED WRITINGS
The Talmud • SELECTED WRITINGS
Ephrem the Syrian 0 HYMNS
Hildegard of Bingen • SCIVIAS
Birgitta of Sweden • LIFE AND SELECTED REVELATIONS
John Donne • SELECTIONS FROM DIVINE POEMS, SERMONS, DEVOTIONS AND PRAYERS
Jeremy Taylor • SELECTED WORKS
Walter Hilton • SCALE OF PERFECTION
Ignatius of Loyola • SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AND SELECTED WORKS
Anchoritic Spirituality •ANCRENE WISSE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Nizam ad-din Awliya • MORALS FOR THE HEART
Pseudo-Macarius • THE FIFTY SPIRITUAL HOMILIES AND THE GREAT LETTER
Gertrude of Helfta • THE HERALD OF DIVINE LOVE
Angela of Foligno • COMPLETE WORKS
Margaret Ebner • MAJOR WORKS
Marguerite Porete • THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS
John Henry Newman • SELECTED SERMONS
Early Anabaptist Spirituality • SELECTED WRITINGS
Elijah Benamozegh • ISRAEL AND HUMANITY
The Classic Midrash • TANNAITIC COMMENTARIES ON THE BIBLE
Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac • RULES, CONFERENCES, AND WRITINGS
Isaiah Horowitz • THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM
Early Islamic Mysticism • SUFI, QUR'AN, MI'RAJ, POETIC AND THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS
Theatine Spirituality • SELECTED WRITINGS
Carthusian Spirituality • THE WRITINGS OF HUGH OF BALMA AND GUIGO DE PONTE
Nicholas of Cusa • SELECTED SPIRITUAL WRITINGS
John Comenius • THE LABYRINTH OF THE WORLD AND THE PARADISE OF THE HEART
'Cf. "Herz," in Handbuch theologischer Grundbegriffe, ed. Heinrich Fries (Munich, 1962) Vol. I, 668-697, by P.Hofmann and Karl Rahner.
Y See Mechthild von Magdeburg, Das fliefende Licht der Gottheit, Zweite, neubearbeitete Ubersetzung mit Einfuhrung and Kommentar von Margot Schmidt (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Froniniann-Holzboog, 1995), note 296, pp. 397-400, especially p. 399.
'Cf. Johannes Stohr, "Neuzeitliche Diskussionen fiber die Einwohnung des dreifaltigen Gottes," Von der Suche each Gott, ed. Margot Schmidt and Fernando Dominguez (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Froniann-Holzboog, 1998), 249-82.
4 See 11 25.
'See the first few lines of VII 21.
Cf. Marianne Heinibach, "Der ungelehrte Mund" as Autorittit. Mystische Erfahrung as Quelle kirchlich-prophetischer Rede im Werk Mechthilds von Magdeburg (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Fromann-Holzboog, 1989), 74-75.
9 Cf. also Schmidt, note 149, p. 376.
'Cf. Schmidt, note 83, p. 362. Regarding the sources and occurrences of this image, cf. Rudolf von Biberach, Die siben strassen zu got. High Alemannic Translation according to Ms Einsiedeln 278, ed. Margot Schmidt (Florence, 1969), 133* f.
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