Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde

1 PREFACE 2 The Cloister of Hellfde 3 Gertrude Von Hackeborn. 4 The Dark Side of Hellfde. 5 Matilda. 6 A word as to the Béguines. 7 The Great Sorrow. 8 Matilda and Dante. 9 The Book and its Origin. 10 The Journey to Eternal Peace. 11 The Path of Love. 12 The Journey through the Wilderness. 13 Practice. 14 Gleanings from Matilda's Book — How God is to be Praised for Eight Things. 15 How God draweth the Soul to Himself — The Soul's Desire sent Forth to Seek the Beloved One. 16 The Complaint of the Loving Soul, and the Answer of God — How God comes into the Soul. 17 How the Soul receiveth God, and how God receiveth the Soul — The Soul's fivefold Praise of God. 18 Of the Soul's Complaint, of the Garden, and of the New Song. 19 God's fivefold Comparing of the Soul — God's sixfold Delight in the Soul. 20 Knowledge and Enjoyment — The Prayer for Love, and the Answer thereof. 21 Love unto Death; Love Immeasurable; Love Eternal — God asks the Soul what She brings, and She Answereth. 22 The Lord giveth a tenfold Honour to the Soul — Between God and the Soul only Love. 23 How God maketh the Soul to be Free and Wise in His Love. 24 Be thou in Suffering a Lamb, a Dove, and a Bride — Of the Two Golden Chalices of Sorrow and of Comfort. 25 The Working of Blessed Love — How God speaks to the Soul in Three Places. 26 Of False Love — Matilda's Faith. 27 The Echo of the Book. 28 Matilda's Last Years. 29 The Labour of the Lord — The Prayer of the Longing Heart. 30 Prayers — Of the Good Works of Men, how They Shine by the Work of the Lord. 31 The Soul that Loveth Speaketh to her Lord — Seven Things known to the Longing of Love. 32 Of a Sin that is Worse than all Other Sins — How Love was seen with her Handmaidens--A Parable. 33 Four Things that Belong to Faith — From a Friend to a Friend. 34 Something of Paradise — The End of the Journey. 35 The Last Poem. 36 The Nun Gertrude. 37 The Voice that for ever Speaks. 38 THE END.