Primary and historical Christian writings on contemplation, mystical theology, prayer, divine union, visions, and spiritual practice.
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Medieval English Mysticism — Medieval English contemplative and visionary writings, together with historically significant editions, translations, and manuscript studies. (2)
Practice of Divine Presence — Christian devotional writings on recollection, ordinary work, continual prayer, and sustained awareness of the divine presence. (1)
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The Interior Castle — St. Teresa of Avila — St. Teresa of Avila's 1577 guide to the soul's contemplative ascent to God, figured as seven concentric 'mansions' within an interior castle, in an early twentieth-century English translation.
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise — The medieval Latin love letters exchanged between the philosopher-monk Peter Abelard and his student and secret wife Heloise, in an anonymous English translation edited by Israel Gollancz and Honnor Morten, 1901.
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite — tr. John Parker — John Parker's 1897 two-volume translation of the complete Corpus Areopagiticum -- On the Divine Names, Mystic Theology, the Letters, the Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchies, and the pseudo-Aristotelian Liturgy -- attributed since antiquity to Dionysius the Areopagite.