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A Reasonable Mystic has Moved to WordPress
Welcome to our new WordPress site. Because Blogger will no longer host FTP blogs after May 1st I have moved this blog to WordPress. The default theme will be replaced with a custom theme as soon as it has been … Continue reading
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 24
Of the way to attain Divine Union It is impossible to attain Divine Union solely by the activity of meditation, or by the meltings of the affections, or even by the highest degree of luminous and distinctly-comprehended prayer. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, divine union, God, Jeanne Guyon, Jesus Christ, Madame Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, purification, purity, Soul, Spiritual Practices
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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 23
To Pastors and Teachers If all who laboured for the conversion of others were to introduce them immediately into Prayer and the Interior Life, and make it their main design to gain and win over the heart, numberless as well … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, body, Books, bread, Christianity, evil, grace, heart, interior life, Jeanne Guyon, Jesus Christ, love, Madame Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, piety, Prayer, reform, Sin, Soul, spiritual fathers, Spiritual Practices, truth, wine
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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 22
Of Internal Acts Acts are distinguished into External and Internal. External acts are those which bear relation to some sensible object, and are either morally good or evil, merely according to the nature of the principle from which they proceed. … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, David, divine, external acts, God, good, heart, internal acts, Isaiah, Jeanne Guyon, love, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Psalms, Sirach, Soul, Spirit, spiritual, Spiritual Practices, Will
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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 21
The Noble Results of this Species of Prayer Some persons, when they hear of the prayer of silence, falsely imagine, that the soul remains stupid, dead, and inactive. But, unquestionably, it acteth therein, more nobly and more extensively than it … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, apostle, Books, Breath of Life, Canticles, consumation, Corinthians, David, Devil, divine, divine union, Ezeliel, Father, God, grace, heart, image of God, Isaiah, Jeanne Guyon, Jesus Christ, life, Madame Guyon, Martha, Mary, Mystics, Paul, peace, Prayer, prophet, Psalms, saints, silence, Soul, Spirit, Spirit of Christ, Spirit of Grace, Spirit of Life, Spiritual Practices, unity, wheel, wisdom, Zechariah
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Too many blogs
If the previous post seemed a little out of context, it was! I’ve written elsewhere about having too many blogs, and one result is that the post on Hiding Christ from New Agers was posted here instead of where it … Continue reading
Hiding Christ from New Agers
This morning I was reading “My Prayer Journal” in the Victorian Baptist Witness. Part of the diary for Wednesday and Thursday went as follows: Something interesting happened today. Saw Greg put ‘religion’ and ‘new age’ books together (in the ‘new … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Books, Christian, Jesus Christ, jounalling, journal, librarian, new age, Prayer, Religion, sacred, secular
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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 20
Of Self-Annihilation Supplication and sacrifice are comprehended in prayer, which, according to S. John, is “an incense, the smoke whereof ascendeth unto God;” therefore it is said in the Apocalypse that “unto the Angel was given much incense, that he … Continue reading
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Tagged adoration, angel, annihilation, ascend, Beloved, Bethlehem, blessing, Canticles, carnal, corrupt, creation, creature, dead, Ecclesiastes, evangelical, everlasting life, fire, frankincense, fullness, glory, God, honour, humble, incense, joy, Kingdom, life, living water, Lord, love, Master, Matthew, melting, myrrh, pearl, power, Prayer, Presence of God, price, purity, saints, self-annihilation, smoke, Soul, sovereignty, surrender, truth
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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 19
Of Distractions and Temptations A direct contest and struggle with distractions and temptations rather serves to augment them, and withdraws the soul from that adherence to God, which should ever be its principal occupation. The surest and safest method for … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, David, distraction, enemy, evil, Exodus, glory, God, heart, Jeanne Guyon, Madame Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Psalms, Soul, Spiritual Practices, strength, temptation, weakness
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A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Chapter 18
Of Defects or Infirmities Should we either wander among externals, or sink into dissipation, or commit a fault, we must instantly turn inwards; for having departed thereby from our God, we should as soon as possible return again unto Him, … Continue reading
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Tagged defect, humble, infirmity, Jeanne Guyon, Madame Guyon, Mysticism, Mystics, Prayer, Presence of God, pride, Psalms, Soul
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