Matelda and the cloister of Hellfde
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Chapters (61)
- MATELDA AND THE CLOISTER OF HELLFDE
- MATELDA AND THE CLOISTER OF HELLFDE
- PREFACE
- The Cloister of Hellfde
- Gertrude Von Hackeborn.
- The Dark Side of Hellfde.
- Matilda.
- A word as to the Béguines.
- The Great Sorrow.
- Matilda and Dante.
- The Book and its Origin.
- The Journey to Eternal Peace.
- The Path of Love.
- The Journey through the Wilderness.
- Practice.
- Gleanings from Matilda’s Book.
- How God is to be Praised for Eight Things.
- How God draweth the Soul to Himself.
- The Soul’s Desire sent Forth to Seek the Beloved One.
- The Complaint of the Loving Soul, and the Answer of God.
- How God comes into the Soul.
- How the Soul receiveth God, and how God receiveth the Soul.
- The Soul’s fivefold Praise of God.
- Of the Soul’s Complaint, of the Garden, and of the New Song.
- God’s fivefold Comparing of the Soul.
- God’s sixfold Delight in the Soul.
- Knowledge and Enjoyment.
- The Prayer for Love, and the Answer thereof.
- Love unto Death; Love Immeasurable; Love Eternal.
- God asks the Soul what She brings, and She Answereth.
- How the Soul praises God for Seven Things, and God praiseth the Soul who loves Him.
- A fivefold Song of the Soul to God, and how God is a Robe of the Soul, and the Soul a robe of God.
- The Lord giveth a tenfold Honour to the Soul.
- Between God and the Soul only Love.
- How God maketh the Soul to be Free and Wise in His Love.
- The Road wherein the Soul leadeth the Senses, and where the Soul is Free from Care.
- How the Bride casts away the Solace of Created Things, and seeks only the Comfort of God.
- Of Love, the Handmaiden of the Soul, and of the Soul whom Love hath Smitten.
- Be thou in Suffering a Lamb, a Dove, and a Bride.
- Of the Two Golden Chalices of Sorrow and of Comfort.
- The Working of Blessed Love.
- How God speaks to the Soul in Three Places.
- Of False Love.
- Matilda’s Faith.
- The Echo of the Book.
- Matilda’s Last Years.
- The Labour of the Lord.
- The Prayer of the Longing Heart.
- Prayers.
- Of the Good Works of Men, how They Shine by the Work of the Lord.
- The Soul that Loveth Speaketh to her Lord.
- Seven Things known to the Longing of Love.
- Of a Sin that is Worse than all Other Sins.
- How Love was seen with her Handmaidens—A Parable.
- Four Things that Belong to Faith.
- From a Friend to a Friend.
- Something of Paradise.
- The End of the Journey.
- The Last Poem.
- The Nun Gertrude.
- The Voice that for ever Speaks.
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