| Foreword |
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xxiii | (2) |
| Preface |
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xxv | (14) |
| Key to Abbreviations |
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xxxix | |
| Introduction |
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1 | (24) |
| Notes to the Introduction |
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25 | (6) |
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THE FLOWING LIGHT OF THE GODHEAD |
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| Prologue to the Lux Divinitatis |
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31 | (4) |
| Latin Foreword with Table of Contents and Middle High German Translation |
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35 | (4) |
| BOOK I |
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39 | (30) |
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1. How Love and the Queen Spoke to Each Other |
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39 | (1) |
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2. Concerning Three Persons and Three Gifts |
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40 | (2) |
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3. The Handmaids of the Soul and the Blow of Love |
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42 | (1) |
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4. The Soul's Journey to Court During Which God Reveals Himself |
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43 | (1) |
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5. The Torment and the Praise of the Soul |
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44 | (1) |
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6. The Nine Choirs: How They Sing |
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45 | (1) |
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7. God's Curse in Eight Things |
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45 | (1) |
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8. The Most Lowly Praises God in Ten Things |
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45 | (1) |
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9. With Three Things You Dwell on the Heights |
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46 | (1) |
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10. Who Loves God Triumphs over Three Things |
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46 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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12. The Soul Praises God for Five Things |
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47 | (1) |
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13. How God Comes to the Soul |
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47 | (1) |
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14. How the Soul Receives and Praises God |
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47 | (1) |
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15. How God Receives the Soul |
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47 | (1) |
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16. God Likens the Soul to Four Things |
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47 | (1) |
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17. The Soul Praises God About Five Things |
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48 | (1) |
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18. God Likens the Soul to Five Things |
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48 | (1) |
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19. God Caresses the Soul in Six Ways |
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48 | (1) |
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20. The Soul Praises God in Return in Six Ways |
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48 | (1) |
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21. Of Knowledge and Enjoyment |
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49 | (1) |
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22. St. Mary's Message and How One Virtue Follows Another. How the Soul Was Made in the Jubilus of the Trinity, and How St. Mary Nursed All the Saints and Nurses Them Still |
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49 | (3) |
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23. You Should Ask That God Love You Passionately, Often, and Long; Then You Shall Become Pure, Beautiful, and Holy |
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52 | (1) |
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24. How God Responds to the Soul |
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52 | (1) |
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25. The Way to Suffer Pain Willingly for God's Sake |
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52 | (1) |
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26. The Path upon Which the Soul Draws the Senses and Is Free of Suffering of the Heart |
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53 | (1) |
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27. How You Become Worthy of This Path and Keep to It and Become Perfect |
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53 | (1) |
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28. Love Shall Be Deadly, Boundless, and Unceasing; This Is the Folly of Fools |
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53 | (1) |
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29. The Beauty of the Bridegroom and How the Bride Should Follow Him in Twenty-Three Steps of the Cross |
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54 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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31. You Should Ignore Scorn |
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55 | (1) |
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32. You Should Ignore Honors, Suffering, and Possessions. Be Sad After Sinning |
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55 | (1) |
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33. Concerning Food, Consolation, and Love |
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55 | (1) |
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34. In Suffering You Should Be a Lamb, a Turtledove, and a Bride |
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55 | (1) |
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35. The Desert Has Twelve Things |
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55 | (1) |
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36. Concerning Malice, Good Works, and Concerning a Marvel |
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56 | (1) |
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37. The Soul Responds to God Saying She Is Unworthy of These Favors |
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56 | (1) |
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38. God Boasts That the Soul Has Overcome Four Sins |
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56 | (1) |
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39. God Asks the Soul What She Is Bringing |
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57 | (1) |
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40. She Replies: Something That Is Better than Seven Things |
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57 | (1) |
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41. God Asks in Praise What the Precious Stone Is Called |
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57 | (1) |
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42. The Precious Stone Is Called Heart's Delight |
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57 | (1) |
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43. Put Your Delight into the Trinity |
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58 | (1) |
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44. The Sevenfold Path of Love, the Three Garments of the Bride, and the Dance |
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58 | (5) |
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45. The Eight Days in Which What the Prophets Longed For Was Accomplished |
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63 | (1) |
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46. The Diverse Adornments of the Bride; How She Comes to Her Bridegroom; and How the Retinue Is Composed, Which Is Ninefold |
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63 | (6) |
| BOOK II |
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69 | (32) |
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1. Love Brings Elevation to the Soul, Not Inhuman Toil; That Comes from Self-Will |
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69 | (1) |
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2. Two Songs of Love of Him Who Was Seen in Love |
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69 | (1) |
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3. The Tongue of the Godhead, the Light of Truth, the Four Rays of God Shining into the Nine Choirs, the Trinity, and St. Mary |
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70 | (2) |
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4. The Poor Girl, the Mass of John the Baptist, the Transformation of the Host into the Lamb, the Beauty of the Angels, Four Kinds of Sanctified People, and the Golden Penny |
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72 | (4) |
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5. A Song of the Soul About Five Things, and How God Is a Garment of the Soul and the Soul of God |
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76 | (1) |
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6. God's Singing Response in the Soul in Five Things |
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76 | (1) |
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7. In Suffering Praise God; Then He Will Appear to You. The Two Golden Chalices of Suffering and Consolation |
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77 | (1) |
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8. Of Purgatory; a Person Freed a Thousand Souls from It with the Tears of Love |
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77 | (1) |
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9. God Praises His Bride in Five Things |
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78 | (1) |
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10. The Bride Praises God in Return in Five Things |
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78 | (1) |
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11. Seven Kinds of Love for God |
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78 | (1) |
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12. Seven Kinds of Perfection |
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79 | (1) |
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13. Between God and the Soul There Should Be Love |
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79 | (1) |
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14. Where Bitterness, Low Spirits, Sickness, Terror, Sensitivity, Distress, Forsakenness, and Inconsolability Come From |
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79 | (1) |
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15. How One Wounded by Love Is Restored to Health |
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79 | (1) |
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16. The Seven Gifts of a Brother |
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80 | (1) |
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17. How God Woos the Soul and Makes Her Wise in His Love |
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80 | (1) |
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18. How the Soul Interprets God's Wooing in Eight Things |
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80 | (1) |
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19. How Knowledge and the Soul Converse and How the Latter Says That She Is Threefold. Of the Three Heavens |
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81 | (3) |
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20. How Sister Hildegund Is Adorned in Heaven with Three Mantles, with Seven Crowns, and How the Nine Choirs Praise Her |
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84 | (1) |
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21. If You Would Behold the Mountain, You Should Have Seven Things |
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85 | (1) |
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22. How Contemplation Asks the Loving Soul About the Seraphim and the Least of Men |
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86 | (1) |
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23. How Love Questions and Instructs Dull Souls and Would Like to Bring Them to Their Lover and Begins to Speak; and How the Dull Soul Responds |
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87 | (2) |
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24. How the Loving Soul Joins the Company of God and His Chosen Dear Ones and Shall Be Equal to All the Saints. How the Devil and the Soul Talk to Each Other |
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89 | (3) |
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25. The Lament of the Loving Soul; How God Protects Her and Withdraws His Gift from Her. Concerning Wisdom, How the Soul Asks God How She Is and Where He Is. Concerning the Orchard, Flowers, and the Song of the Virgins |
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92 | (4) |
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26. About This Book and the Writers of This Book |
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96 | (5) |
| BOOK III |
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101 | (38) |
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1. Of Heaven and the Nine Choirs and Who Is Supposed to Fill the Breach. Of the Throne of the Apostles and St. Mary and on Which Christ Sits. Of the Reward of Preachers, Martyrs, and Virgins, and of the Unbaptized Children |
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101 | (6) |
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2. How the Soul Praises God and God the Soul for Seven Things. Of Balsam and Waiting |
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107 | (1) |
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3. A Lament That the Soul Is a Maidservant for the Love of God |
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108 | (2) |
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4. How Our Lady St. Mary Can Sin and How Not; the Holy Spirit Teaches This |
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110 | (1) |
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5. How the Soul Complains That She Hears No Mass Nor Hours and How God Praises Her in Ten Things |
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111 | (1) |
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6. If You Would Follow God Rightly, You Should Have Seven Things |
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112 | (1) |
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7. Concerning Seven Obvious Enemies of Our Happiness That Cause Seven Kinds of Harm |
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113 | (1) |
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8. Seven Things That All Priests Should Have |
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113 | (1) |
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9. Concerning the Beginning of All Things That God Created out of Love |
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114 | (3) |
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10. The Passion That the Loving Soul Has from God, and How She Rises and Ascends into Heaven |
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117 | (2) |
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11. Between God and the Loving Soul All Things Are Beautiful |
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119 | (1) |
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12. You Should Praise, Thank, Desire, and Beg. Concerning the Lantern and the Light |
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119 | (1) |
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13. Sixteen Kinds of Love |
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120 | (1) |
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14. Concerning False Virtues; Whoever Dwells Therein Lives in Lies |
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121 | (1) |
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15. You Should Approach God's Table with Eight Virtues. By Ransom a Person Released Seventy Thousand Souls from Ghastly Purgatory, Which Is of Many Kinds |
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121 | (3) |
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16. After a Gift There Follows a Scourge and After Disgrace Honor |
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124 | (1) |
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17. The Purgatory of a Religious Person, His Five Kinds of Help out of the Torment, and the Nobility of the Order of Preachers |
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124 | (1) |
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18. A Knight's Battle in Full Armor Against Sensual Desires |
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125 | (1) |
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19. Two Kinds of Poor People: Those Who Are Cheerfully Poor and Those Who Are Unhappily So |
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126 | (1) |
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20. The Five Prophets Who Illumine This Book |
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126 | (1) |
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21. Hell: How It Has Three Parts; How Lucifer and Sixteen Kinds of People Are Tormented; There Is No Help for Them. Lucifer's Garment |
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127 | (5) |
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22. Of God's Mercy, His Concern, and Justice |
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132 | (1) |
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23. The Intensity of Yearning Takes Away Words; God Cannot Do Without Virgins; God's Countenance, His Embrace, and His Joy Overcome a Thousand Deaths |
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133 | (1) |
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24. Two Kinds of Spirits--from God and from the Devil--Are Offered to Two Kinds of Religious People. The Seven Kinds of Love |
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134 | (5) |
| BOOK IV |
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139 | (40) |
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1. Pure Virgins Should Have Five Things |
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139 | (1) |
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2. This Book Has Come from God; the Soul Praises Herself for Many Things; She Is Given Two Angels and Two Evil Devils. With Twelve Virtues She Does Battle Against the Flesh |
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139 | (5) |
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3. Sinners Fall Away from God; of Three Gifts of Wisdom; of the Stone; of the Praise of the Virgin Who Is Christianity |
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144 | (3) |
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4. Two Dissimilar Paths: the First Descends into Hell; the Second Ascends to Heaven |
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147 | (1) |
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5. Our Sin, Future Fall, Earthly Being, the Kingdom of Heaven. God's Gifts Should Be Clearly Before Our Eyes |
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148 | (1) |
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6. Being Chosen by God Cannot Hurt Anyone; True Repentance Earns Remission and God's Grace, and Frees from Purgatory |
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149 | (1) |
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7. How a Free Soul Speaks to God in Total Love |
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150 | (1) |
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8. Concerning God's Body, Which a Sick Person Vomits Up, and Concerning Power |
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150 | (1) |
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9. Four Kinds of Offerings to Priests |
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151 | (1) |
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10. Concerning the Offerings of Laypersons According to Their Means |
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151 | (1) |
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11. Four Things Concerning How Christians Should Conduct Themselves in Dealing with Jews |
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151 | (1) |
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12. How a Bride Who Is United with God Rejects Consolation from All Creatures Except for That from God Alone, and How She Sinks into Pain |
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152 | (4) |
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13. The Text of This Book Is Seen, Heard, and Felt in All Members |
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156 | (1) |
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14. Of the Holy Trinity, of the Birth and the Name of Jesus Christ, and of Human Nobility |
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156 | (2) |
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15. Genuine Pure Love Has Four Things; If You Surrender Yourself to God, God Will Also Surrender Himself to You |
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158 | (1) |
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16. Great Love Has More than Ten Parts and of Two Kinds of Complaint |
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158 | (1) |
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17. Concerning a Lady Who Liked Being at Court; Concerning Her Devil Who Recommended to Her Seven Kinds of Evil |
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159 | (1) |
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18. A Spiritual Person Resembles an Animal in Thirty Things as to His Nature |
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160 | (3) |
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19. The Task of Blessed Love Is Manifold |
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163 | (1) |
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20. The Six Virtues of St. Dominic |
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164 | (1) |
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21. Sixteen Reasons Why the Order of Preachers Is Dear to God |
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165 | (1) |
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22. Brother Heinrich's Fourfold Crown and of the Dignity of St. Dominic |
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166 | (1) |
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23. About the Burial of St. John the Evangelist |
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167 | (1) |
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24. How God Receives the Souls in Heaven; How He Crowns Three Kinds of People; How He Greets, Adorns, Praises, and Thanks Them |
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168 | (1) |
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25. How We Are Now Present in Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell |
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169 | (1) |
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26. God Consoles the Depressed Brother Baldwin |
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169 | (1) |
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27. Concerning the End of the Order of Preachers and the Antichrist; Concerning Enoch and Elias |
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170 | (6) |
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28. The Fivefold Power of Love. Because of the Weakness of People and the Treachery of the World One Must Remain Silent About the Truth |
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176 | (3) |
| BOOK V |
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179 | (44) |
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1. Three Kinds of Sorrow, Ten Kinds of Benefits, and the Path of Angels and Devils |
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179 | (1) |
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2. Two Kinds of Suffering, Four Kinds of Benefits, and the Manifold Host of Sins |
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180 | (1) |
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3. God Shall Weigh All Innocent Suffering and Also the Blood of Three Kinds of People |
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181 | (1) |
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4. The Power of Marvelous Love Is Manifold; How the Soul Sinks. Four Kinds of Humility. The Sevenfold Beauty of the Loving Soul |
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182 | (2) |
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5. The Purgatory of a Beguine Whom No Prayer Helped Because of Her Selfishness |
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184 | (1) |
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6. How the Soul Praises the Holy Trinity |
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185 | (1) |
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7. How God Praises the Soul in Return |
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186 | (1) |
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8. A Good Person Should Have Three Children for Whom to Pray |
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186 | (1) |
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9. Concerning the Glory of Seventy Men Who Arose with Christ as Testimony |
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187 | (1) |
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10. How Sin Is Like God's Greatness |
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188 | (1) |
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11. A Religious Name Shall Be Exalted. Concerning the Conduct of Sisters. How They Should Pray and Toil with God |
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189 | (1) |
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12. How God Responds to a Brother Concerning What Is Written in This Book |
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190 | (1) |
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13. Ten Kinds of Benefit a Good Person's Prayer Has |
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191 | (1) |
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14. The Purgatory of Bad Priests |
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191 | (1) |
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15. The Purgatory of a Good Priest |
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192 | (1) |
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16. It Is Diabolical to Sin |
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192 | (1) |
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17. This Is a Greeting, Praise, and Prayer of a Sinner |
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193 | (1) |
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18. How God Responds to This |
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193 | (1) |
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19. How Seventeen Kinds of Sin Pursue a Person |
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194 | (1) |
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20. Praise of God in Eight Things. An Offering for Sins |
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195 | (1) |
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21. Why Man Is Rejected and Yet Loved, and How You Should Bless Yourself |
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195 | (1) |
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22. The Seven Things of Judgment; Shame and Good Will |
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196 | (1) |
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23. St. Mary's Prayer, Gabriel's Light, the Child's Blanket, Where the Milk Came from, the Gifts for the Child, the Devils, and the Hunger Cloth |
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197 | (7) |
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24. The Six Kinds of Children of Our Lord God and the Virtues of St. Dominic and How God Has Honored His Order in Four Ways |
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204 | (2) |
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25. Something That One Misses in Heaven in Seven Things; Thereafter Follow Seven Things; the Praise of a Disheartened Person Is Beneficial in Seven Ways |
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206 | (1) |
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26. How God Praises Himself and Celebrates Himself in Song |
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207 | (1) |
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27. The Heavenly Father Received His Son, Jesus, with Twelve Words |
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208 | (1) |
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28. The Seven Crowns of Brother Albert. Disposition Is One Thing, Choice Is Another |
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208 | (1) |
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29. After Ecstasy with God a Person Would Be Like an Angel If He Were to Follow It, and Concerning the Wickedness of the Devil |
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209 | (1) |
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30. Twenty Powers of God's Love and Many Kinds of Names |
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210 | (2) |
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31. Of Ten Powers of Love and That No Creature Can Fully Imagine the Longing of the Soul for God |
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212 | (2) |
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32. The Sublime End of Sister Mechthild |
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214 | (1) |
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33. How Small Sins Harm Perfection and How Through Them the Devil Draws Close to the Soul |
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215 | (1) |
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34. Five New Saints Sent for the Sake of Bad People and How God Will Hereafter Wash Christianity in His Own Blood |
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215 | (2) |
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35. How Sister Mechthild Thanks and Praises God and Prays for Three Kinds of People and for Herself |
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217 | (6) |
| BOOK VI |
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223 | (48) |
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1. How a Prior or a Prioress or Other Religious Superiors Should Conduct Themselves Toward Those Under Them |
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223 | (5) |
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2. The Rule of a Canon: How He Should Conduct Himself. This Came from God |
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228 | (1) |
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3. God Gives Authority. How Billy Goats Become Lambs |
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229 | (1) |
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4. Discernment and Fear That Preserve the Senses from Earthly Things |
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230 | (1) |
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5. After Love and Desire the Beauty of Creatures Gives Knowledge Along with Sadness |
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231 | (1) |
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6. At the End You Should Have Love, Longing, Fear, and Three Kinds of Sorrow |
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232 | (1) |
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7. Our Self-Will Can Resist the Barbed Hook. The Good Soul Comes Swiftly to God |
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233 | (1) |
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8. Between God and Lucifer There Are Two Kinds of Purgatory. How the Devil Tortures Souls |
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234 | (1) |
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9. The Saints Honor Those Who Honor Them and They Console Them at Their Death |
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235 | (1) |
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10. Prayer, Masses, God's Word, the Lives of Good People, Fasting, and Carenae Free Souls from Purgatory |
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236 | (1) |
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11. How a Student Is Dead and a Dominican Was Seen |
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237 | (1) |
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12. How You Should Conduct Yourself as to Fourteen Things |
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238 | (1) |
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13. How Religious out of Blindness Fend Off Inwardness from Themselves. The Sixfold Power of God's Gift |
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238 | (2) |
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14. Those Who Complain in Suffering Lack Six Things; How One Should Bear Sickness and Contempt |
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240 | (1) |
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15. The Sufferings of Enoch and Elijah, the Last Preachers, and the Wickedness of the Antichrist |
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241 | (3) |
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16. How the Soul of Our Lord Dwells in the Trinity and What Its Task Is; How It Speaks for the Sinner and Concerning the Task of Our Lady |
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244 | (3) |
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17. God Considers the Sinner Good; What a Good Right Will Is; Concerning a Good Burden |
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247 | (1) |
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18. You Should Scrutinize Your Heart at All Times |
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247 | (1) |
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19. Good Intentions That One Cannot Turn into Deeds |
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247 | (2) |
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20. This Book Came About out of a Threefold Favor; Love Flows, It Is Rich and Full of Desire, It Becomes Sick; Who Possesses Heaven; God Bestows Suffering and Consolation as Well |
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249 | (1) |
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21. How Bad Priests Shall Be Humiliated; [How Preachers Alone Should Preach and Be Bishops;] Concerning the Last Brothers |
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249 | (1) |
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22. Seven Things, Five of Which One Finds in Heaven and Two on Earth |
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250 | (1) |
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23. How God Speaks with the Soul in Three Places |
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251 | (1) |
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24. How Christ Reveals His Wounds in Days of Suffering. Four Things Knock on Heaven's Gate |
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251 | (1) |
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25. Concerning Burned Love |
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252 | (1) |
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26. Thinking About Death and Living Long Are Good |
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252 | (1) |
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27. How You Should Thank and Ask |
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253 | (1) |
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28. When You Are to Die, Take Leave of Ten Things |
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253 | (1) |
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29. Ten Parts of Divine Fire out of God's Nobility |
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254 | (2) |
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30. Pure Love Has Four Things |
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256 | (1) |
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31. How God Made the Soul. Concerning Pleasure and Pain. How God Is Like a Sphere |
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256 | (2) |
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32. How We Become Like God, St. Mary, the Angels, and the Saints |
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258 | (1) |
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33. Concerning a Strict Chapter to Which a Pilgrim Came Who Turned Out to Be a Great Lord |
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259 | (1) |
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34. Someone Who Despises the World Should Be Honored with Nine Things |
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260 | (1) |
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35. How the Soul of One Blessed Speaks to Her Body on the Last Day |
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261 | (1) |
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36. That John the Baptist Sang Mass for the Poor Girl Was Spiritual Knowledge in the Soul |
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261 | (1) |
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37. You Should Praise God, Lament, and Ask for Twelve Things |
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262 | (2) |
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38. No One Can Destroy God's Heaven. Hell Drives God Out |
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264 | (1) |
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39. The Reflection of God's Radiance by Our Lady and Her Power |
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265 | (1) |
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40. Temptation, the World, and a Good End Test Us |
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265 | (1) |
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41. How God's Splendor Is Reflected in a Human Being and in the Angels |
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266 | (1) |
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42. Sister Mechthild Wrote the Following in a Note to Her Brother B., of the Order of Preachers, Saying: |
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266 | (1) |
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43. This Writing Flowed out of God |
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267 | (4) |
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271 | (66) |
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1. The Crown and the Dignity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Which He Shall Receive After the Last Day |
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271 | (4) |
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2. How a Person Prayed for All the Souls on All Souls' Day |
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275 | (2) |
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3. How Beneficial It Is for a Person to Examine His Heart Constantly with Humble Fear |
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277 | (2) |
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279 | (1) |
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5. Why the Convent Was Once Undergoing Trials |
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279 | (1) |
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6. The Chapter Room and How a Person Should Examine His Infractions and Weep for Them; Two Golden Pennies and Good Will and Desire |
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280 | (1) |
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7. How a Person May Always Be United with God |
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280 | (2) |
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8. How a Person Seeks God |
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282 | (1) |
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9. How the Loving Soul Praises Our Lord with All Creatures |
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283 | (1) |
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10. This Happened at a Time When There Was Great Turmoil |
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284 | (1) |
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11. How Our Lord Was Seen Looking Like a Worker |
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284 | (1) |
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12. How a Person Should Resist Vain Honor and Temptation |
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285 | (1) |
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13. How Our Lord Was Seen Looking Like a Pilgrim |
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286 | (1) |
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14. God's Choosing and Blessing |
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286 | (1) |
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15. How a Person Who Loves Truth Should Pray |
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287 | (1) |
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16. How a Person Spoke and Prayed |
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287 | (1) |
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17. How Knowledge Speaks to the Conscience |
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288 | (1) |
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18. Suggestions for the Seven Hours for Honoring the Passion of Our Lord |
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289 | (2) |
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19. The Greeting of Our Lady |
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291 | (1) |
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20. How One Should Pray the Ave Maria to Our Lady |
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292 | (1) |
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21. How One Should Examine One's Heart Before Going to God's Table |
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292 | (2) |
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22. Praise of the Heavenly Father |
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294 | (1) |
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23. How One Should Thank the Son |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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25. The Greeting for the Holy Trinity |
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295 | (1) |
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26. How One Should Entreat God in Temptation |
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295 | (1) |
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27. How a Religious Person Should Turn His Heart Away from the World |
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296 | (2) |
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28. The Misfortunes of War |
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298 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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30. A Prayer When Virgins Receive Their Crown |
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300 | (1) |
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300 | (1) |
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32. How the Works of a Good Person Shine Forth in Relation to the Works of Our Lord |
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301 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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303 | (2) |
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305 | (3) |
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37. The Eternal Feast of the Holy Trinity |
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308 | (1) |
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38. How a Person in Religious Life Should Daily Lament and Confess His Sins to God |
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309 | (1) |
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39. How the Devil Rages and Chases About, Bites, and Gnaws When a Loving Soul That Burns with Divine Love Departs This World |
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309 | (2) |
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40. Thus Does the Loving Soul Speak to Her Dear Lord |
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311 | (1) |
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41. How a Dominican Father Was Seen |
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311 | (1) |
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312 | (1) |
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43. Of Simple Love, How Wisdom Is Seen |
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312 | (1) |
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44. Five Sins and Five Virtues |
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313 | (1) |
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45. Seven Things, Five of Which One Finds in Heaven and Two on Earth |
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313 | (2) |
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46. How the Soul Presents Herself in Spiritual Poverty |
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315 | (1) |
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47. One Sin That Is Evil Beyond All Sins |
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315 | (1) |
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48. How Love Was Seen with Her Maidens |
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316 | (3) |
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49. Concerning a Lay Brother |
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319 | (1) |
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50. The Visible Favor of God |
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320 | (1) |
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51. A Prayer Against Sins of Omission |
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320 | (1) |
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52. How the Loving Soul Bows Beneath the Hand of God |
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321 | (1) |
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53. The Prison of Religious People |
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321 | (2) |
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54. Four Qualities of Faith |
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323 | (1) |
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55. How a Friend Writes to a Friend |
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323 | (2) |
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56. How God Touches His Friends with Suffering |
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325 | (1) |
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325 | (2) |
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327 | (1) |
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59. How the Message Came Before God |
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328 | (1) |
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60. How the Child Was Seen |
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328 | (1) |
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61. How One Should Prepare Oneself for God |
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329 | (1) |
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62. How the Maidens Serve Their Lady the Queen |
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330 | (3) |
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63. God's Will Is a Sovereign Lord in All Being |
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333 | (1) |
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334 | (1) |
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65. How God Adorns the Soul with Suffering |
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335 | (2) |
| Notes to Text |
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337 | (31) |
| Selected Bibliography |
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368 | (3) |
| Index to Introduction and Text |
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