A Short Method Of Prayer And Spiritual Torrents
Madame Guyon's two devotional works on contemplative prayer: her guide to simple interior prayer accessible to all, and 'Spiritual Torrents,' her treatise on the soul's progressive journey toward union with God through self-abandonment.
20 Chapters
Table of Contents
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00. Bouvieres, Jeanne M. - A Short Method of Prayer and Spiritual Torrents
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01. All are Commanded to Pray --Prayer the Great Means of Salvation
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02. First Degree of Prayer --Meditation and Meditative Reading --The Lord's Prayer --....
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03. Second Degree of Prayer, Called Here "The Prayer of Simplicity. "
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04. On spiritual dryness.
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05. Abandonment to God--Its fruit and its irrevocability-- in what it consists-God exhorts us to it.
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06. Of Suffering which must be accepted as from God--Its Fruits.
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07. On the Mysteries--God gives them here in Reality.
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08. On viture--All Virtues given with God ...
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09. Of perfect Conversion, which is an effect of this method of Prayer....
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10. Higher degree of Prayer, which is that of the Simple Presence of God, or active contemplation.
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11. Of Rest in the Presence of God--It's Fruits--Inward Silence...
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12. Self-Examanimation and Confession.
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13. On Reading--Vocal Prayer-- Requests.
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14. The Fauts committed in this degree--Distractions, temptations--...
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15. Prayer and Sacrifice explained by the Similitude of a perfume...
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16. This state of Prayer not one of idleness, but of Noble action, Wrought by the Spirit of God....
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17. Distinction between exterior and interior actions--...
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18. The Dryness of Preachers, and the Various Evils which arise from ...
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19. After the preceding ways, there remains an after way,...