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CCEL Governance

Albert, the Great, Saint (1193?-1280)

On Cleaving to God

Anonymous (14th c. English)

Cloud of Unknowing

B

Baker, Augustine

Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the prayer of contemplation: extracted out of more than forty treatises by the Ven. F. Augustin Baker

Bevan, Frances

Three Friends of God: Records from the Lives of John Tauler, Nicholas of Basle, Henry Suso

Boehme, Jakob (1575-1624)

Way to Christ

Bonaventura, St. (Giovanni di Fidanza, 1221-1274)

Journey of the Mind Into God

C

Catherine of Genoa, St.

Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa

Catherine of Siena, St. (1347-1380)

Dialog of Catherine of Siena

d

de Caussade, Jean-Pierre, S.J. (d. 1751)

Abandonment to Divine Providence

E

Eckhart, Johannes (c. 1260-1327)

Light, Life, and Love

Meister Eckhart's Sermons / first time translated into English by Claud Field

G

Gardner, Edmund Garratt (1869-1935)

Cell of Self-Knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises

H

Hilton, Walter (d. 1396)

Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection

I

Inge, William Ralph (1860-1954)

Light, Life, and Love

J

John of the Cross, St. (1542-1591)

Ascent of Mount Carmel

Dark Night of the Soul

Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ

Julian of Norwich (c. 1342-c. 1413)

Revelations of Divine Love

L

Lawrence, Brother (Nicholas Herman, c. 1605-1691)

Practice of the Presence of God

M

Molinos, Miguel de (1628-1696)

Spiritual Guide

R

Rolle of Hampole, Richard (c. 1290-c. 1349)

Fire of Love and the Mending of Life

Ruysbroeck, John of, St. (1293-1381)

Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage and other works

S

Suso, Henry (c. 1296-1366)

Light, Life, and Love

Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

T

Tauler, John (c. 1300-1361)

Inner Way

Light, Life, and Love

Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)

Way of Perfection

Therese, of Lisieux, St. (1873-1897)

Poems of St. Teresa, Carmelite of Lisieux, known as the 'Little Flower of Jesus'

Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)

Imitation of Christ

U

Underhill, Evelyn (1875-1941)

Cloud of Unknowing

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

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