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Table of Contents for Teachings of the Christian Mystics Acknowledgments xix The Kingdom of Heaven 1 The Sermon on the Mount 2 Be Ye Therefore Perfect 4 Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God 6 Ask and It Shall Be Given 8 I Was Thirsty and You Gave Me Drink 9 Take Up Your Cross 11 Be as a Little Child 12 More Than All Burnt Offerings and Sacrifices 13 Ye Must Be Born Again 15 The Coming of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter 16 The Vine 18 I in Them and Thou in Me 20 If You Will Not Know Yourselves 22 The Sign of the Father 23 Into a Single One 24 We Are the Children of God 25 Be Ye Transformed 27 When I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong 29 The Foolishness of God Is Wiser Than Men 31 I Count Not Myself to Have Apprehended 33 The Glory of Charity 35 A New Heaven and a New Earth 37 All Eyes, All Light, All Face, All Glory, and All Spirit 38 My Sins Are Running Out Behind Me 40 To His Last Breath 41 Take Care of the Sick 42 Why Not Be Utterly Changed into Fire? 43 Entering the Dark Cloud 44 The Doctrine of Infinite Growth 46 Unity in Diversity 49 The Radiance of the Divine Darkness 50 Entering into Joy 52 She Leads Us All to Divine Knowledge 54 Healing of My Body and Salvation of My Soul 56
An Invocation to the Holy Spirit 57 Beyond Nature, Thought, or Conception 59 Guard the Heart 60 Take the Poor Man In 61 A Charitable Heart 62 Constant Prayer 63 How Best to Say the Jesus Prayer 64 And the Faithful Shall Abide with Him 66 God's Word Is in All Creation 67 To the Virgin 68 On the Assumption 69 Mary Star of the Sea 71 The Four Degrees of Passionate Clarity 73 Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace 77 The Song of the Sun 78 How the Soul through the Senses Finds God in All Creatures 80 God Speaks to the Soul 82 To Live Out What I Am 84 Subject to That Great Power 86 Behold My Humility 88 Seeing God in and with Darkness 89 The Divine Birth 92 The Spark and the Ground 93 Sermon Nineteen: Surrexit Autem Saulus De Terra Apertisque Oculis Nihil Videbat 94 Vision of God 97 The Path of Pain 101 My Sufferings Are the Door 103 How Steadfastly One Must Fight Who Would Attain the Spiritual Prize 104 Jesus, Are You Not My Mother? 107 Christ the Mother 108 Every Sort of Thing Will Be All Right 110 The Soul as a Living Mirror 112 Deified Souls 116 Both Work and Rest, Action and Fruition 118 Me in You and You in Me 121 The Spiritual Marriage 123 Mary and Martha Must Combine 125 Dark Night 127 The Purification of the Fire 130 The Elixir 133 The House of God 135 The Knot I Must Be the Virgin and Give Birth to God 138 Dearest and Holiest and Most Beloved Mother 140 Mary and the Second Coming of Christ 142 The Treasure 145 His Work Is Perfect 146 To the Christians 148 The Divine Image 151 Auguries of Innocence 153 The Holy Conversation between Saint Seraphim of Sarov and Motovilov 155 The Magic of the Name of Jesus 161 True Christianity 163 God's Grandeur 165 The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe 166 The Little Way 168 Love's Vision 170 The Cosmic Christ 171 A New Identity and a New Mode of Action 173 Mary, the First Christian Revolutionary 175 The Tradition of Praise 178 Being Happy with Him Now 180 The New Creation 181 Envoi: You Are Christ's Hands 183 Sources 187 |
