Light, Life, and Love
The German mystics, selected by W. R. Inge, 1904
Contents
- Meister Eckhart
GOD is nameless, for no man can either say or understand aught about Him. If I say, God is good, it is not true; nay more; I am good, God …
- John Tauler
THINK, and think earnestly, how great, how unutterable will be the joy and blessedness, the glory and honour of those who shall see clearly …
- Meditations on the Seven Words from the Cross
[From a devotional treatise on the Passion of Christ, published in a Latin translation, by Surius, in 1548, and wrongly ascribed by him to …
- Henry Suso
AFTER this, certain very high thoughts arose in the mind of the servitor's spiritual daughter, concerning which she asked him whether she …
- Jan van Ruysbroek
"SEE the Bridegroom cometh: go forth to meet Him." St Matthew the evangelist wrote these words, and Christ said them to His disciples and …
- Theologia Germanica
SIN is nothing else but the turning away of the creature from the unchangeable Good to the changeable; from the perfect to the imperfect, …
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The German mystics, selected by W. R. Inge. Light, Life, and Love. 1904. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/light-life-love-inge.
The German mystics, selected by W. R. Inge, Light, Life, and Love (1904), The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/light-life-love-inge.
The German mystics, selected by W. R. Inge. Light, Life, and Love. 1904. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/light-life-love-inge.
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