Madame Guyon Classics: Concise View Of The Way To God & Of The State Of Union (Spiritual Classics)
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Madame Guyon Classics: Concise View Of The Way To God & Of The State Of Union (Spiritual Classics)
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Madame Guyon was a spiritual woman who had gone through the fire of suffering. In her spiritual classics, you will gain a lot of insights on how to live a life of sacrifice to God. Today we live in a comfortable world that knows no value of suffering. Read this book to enlighten your soul and mind.
Concise View of the Way to God; And Of the State of Union’ By Madame Guyon (Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon)
(April 18, 1648 - June 9, 1717)
This English translation originally appeared in “Spiritual Progress or Instructions in the Divine Life of the Soul: from the French of Fenelon and Madame Guyonâ€; Printed in 1853; Edited by James W. Metcalf.
Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Mothe Guyon was the leader of the Quietist movement in France. She studied the works of many saints and was much influenced by St. Francis de Sales, Madame de Chantal, and Thomas a Kempis. At age 16, she married Jacques Guyon, a wealthy man who was 22 years older than her. She went through a lot of suffering in her 12 years of married life. These were years of fruitful spiritual training of her interior life of prayer. At age 28, she became a widow and her public life as an evangelist of Quietism began.
Quietism is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as Quietists insist with more or less emphasis on intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essential conditions of perfection.
Table of Contents
PART 1 ON THE WAY TO GOD
Chapter 1. The First Degree: Conversion
Chapter 2. The Second Degree: The Effectual Touch In The Will
Chapter 3. The Third Degree: Passivity And Interior Sacrifice
Chapter 4. The Fourth Degree: Naked Faith
Chapter 5. The Fifth Degree: Mystical Death
Chapter 6. Union With God: But Not Yet Recognized
PART 2 ON UNION WITH GOD
Chapter 1. The Resurrection
Chapter 2. The Life In God
Chapter 3. The Transformation
