| Date [Source / Page] | Author Quoted | Title Quoted | Quotation by Merton
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1961/03/05
[Ltrs: HGL p. 340]
| Benet of Canfield | Rule of Perfection |
I am reading Part III of Benet with the very greatest interest. It is true that he has a welter of divisions a..
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1961/04/22
[Ltrs: HGL p. 341]
| Benet of Canfield | Rule of Perfection |
I now have the first two parts of Canfield's Rule, though I have not had a chance to read them. The notes arri..
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1961/05/15
[Ltrs: HGL p. 341-42]
| | Cloud of Unknowing |
I have heard of The Mirror of Simple Souls. It is attributed to Marguerite Porete, an unfortunate Beguine who ..
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1961/06/10
[Ltrs: HGL p. 342]
| Marguerite Porete | Mirror of Simple Souls |
The Mirror of Simple Souls still interests me and I want to look into it more. I forget where I ran across the..
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1961/07/01
[Ltrs: HGL p. 343]
| | Cloud of Unknowing |
I like the Penguin edition of the Cloud. It is clear and easy for the contemporary reader. Yet it does lose so..
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1961/07/01
[Ltrs: HGL p. 343]
| Walter Hilton | Scale of Perfection |
I like the Penguin edition of the Cloud. It is clear and easy for the contemporary reader. Yet it does lose so..
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1961/07/25
[Ltrs: HGL p. 344]
| Vladimir Lossky | Theologie negative et connaissance de Dieu chez Maître Eckhart |
Now, above all. Today came the Lossky book on Eckhart. It is fabulously good, and not only that but it is for ..
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1961/09/09
[Ltrs: HGL p. 345]
| | Apophthegmata Patrum |
For my own part (witness The Wisdom of the Desert) I purposely edit the material in a way that seems to me to ..
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1961/11/21
[Ltrs: HGL p. 347-48]
| Jean Danielou | Platonisme et theologie mystique. Essay sur la doctrine spirituelle de Saint Gregoire de Nysse |
[I] am trying as best I can to answer your questions about the introductions to Parts I and II of Benet... Now..
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1961/12/22
[Ltrs: HGL p. 348]
| Jean Danielou | From Glory to Glory: Texts from Gregory of Nyssa's Mystical Writings / and Herbert Musurillo |
The new book on Gregory of Nyssa by Danielou and Musurillo has been sent me for review by Scribner's. I wonder..
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1961/12/22
[Ltrs: HGL p. 349]
| Thomas E. Roberts | Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience |
I do think you ought to read something about it. A book put out by the Merlin Press in London, and edited by W..
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1962/01/29
[Ltrs: HGL p. 350]
| Marguerite Porete | Mirror of Simple Souls |
Eric Colledge in an introduction to an English translation of some sermons of Tauler says that a Dr. Romana Gu..
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1962/03/30
[Ltrs: HGL p. 351]
| Julian of Norwich | Revelations of Divine Love |
Did you ever get anywhere with Julian of Norwich? Though it might not seem so at first sight, I think there is..
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1962/03/30
[Ltrs: HGL p. 351]
| Marguerite Porete | Mirror of Simple Souls |
"¦ Where did I see, the other day, something about a new edition of The Mirror of Simple Souls, and definitely..
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1962/03/30
[Ltrs: HGL p. 351]
| Paul Molinari | Julian of Norwich: The Teachings of a Fourteenth Century Mystic |
"¦ Where did I see, the other day, something about a new edition of The Mirror of Simple Souls, and definitely..
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1962/06/16
[Ltrs: HGL p. 352]
| Marguerite Porete | Mirror of Simple Souls |
Many thanks for the good news about The Mirror of Simple Souls. It was very good of you to get in contact with..
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1962/07/14
[Ltrs: HGL p. 353-54]
| Sophocles | Antigone |
I wonder if the best thing in the world to read in a period of night is Ruysbroeck? Personally I rather doubt ..
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1962/07/14
[Ltrs: HGL p. 353-54]
| Sophocles | Oedipus at Colonus |
I wonder if the best thing in the world to read in a period of night is Ruysbroeck? Personally I rather doubt ..
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1962/10/29
[Ltrs: HGL p. 355]
| Marguerite Porete | Mirror of Simple Souls |
Thanks so much for The Mirror of Simple Souls. I am really enjoying it, though I find that I have a hard time ..
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1963/07/28
[Ltrs: HGL p. 362]
| A.M. Allchin | Silent Rebellion: Anglican Religious Communities 1845-1900 |
Talking about Cowley, Fr. A. M. Allchin, of Pusey House (I suppose you must know him), is coming here next wee..
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1963/07/28
[Ltrs: HGL p. 361]
| R.W. Southern | Life of St. Anselm, Archbisshop of Canterbury |
I have been reading a very fine book of R. W. Southern on St. Anselm. I suppose you must know Southern. I thin..
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1963/10/18
[Ltrs: HGL p. 363]
| Martin Lings | Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy |
A Martin Lings has done what I think is a very fine study of a Moslem called Ahmad Al-'Alawi. I have an extra ..
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1963/10/18
[Ltrs: HGL p. 363]
| Zoe Oldenbourg | Massacre at Monsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade |
Have you read any of Zoe Oldenbourg's books about the Albigensians? Very moving and disturbing. She is right i..
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1963/11/24
[Ltrs: HGL p. 363]
| Lancelot Andrewes | Preces Privatae |
Just a word of thanks for the books, Wm. Law, and Lancelot Andrewes. I am so glad to have them both, particula..
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1964/01/07
[Ltrs: HGL p. 364]
| Karl Jaspers | Way to Wisdom |
You ask about spiritual books. I have been reading all sorts of things, things which I find spiritual. Rudolf ..
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1964/01/07
[Ltrs: HGL p. 364]
| Rudolf Bultmann | Form Criticism: Two Essays on New Testament Research |
You ask about spiritual books. I have been reading all sorts of things, things which I find spiritual. Rudolf ..
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1964/02/16
[Ltrs: HGL p. 365]
| Ammonas | Ammonii Eremitae Epistolae |
Just a brief letter to thank you for the big book Crucible of Love. I have not got into it because I am swampe..
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1964/02/16
[Ltrs: HGL p. 365]
| Edward Schillebeeckx o.p. | Christ, the Sacrament of the Encounter with God. |
Just a brief letter to thank you for the big book Crucible of Love. I have not got into it because I am swampe..
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1964/05/22
[Ltrs: HGL p. 366]
| Nora Kershaw Chadwick | Age of the Saints in the Early Celtic Church |
The book I have on my mind and like very much is Nora Chadwick's lectures on the Celtic Church. This is really..
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1964/05/22
[Ltrs: HGL p. 366]
| Sergius Bolshakoff | Russian Mystics |
I have been, I repeat, foolishly and perhaps scandalously busy with a lot of absurd things, not the least of w..
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1965/11/01
[Ltrs: HGL p. 373]
| John (abbot) of Ford | Wulfric of Haselbury |
I am reading the life of an anchorite in Devon, or rather Somerset I think, St. Wulfric of Haselbury. It is wr..
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1966/04/06
[Ltrs: HGL p. 375]
| Johannes Tauler | Book of the Poor in Spirit |
In the hospital I have read a lot of Eckhart and am more and more convinced of his greatness. Before coming I ..
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1966/08/01
[Ltrs: HGL p. 376]
| G. J. Warnock | English Philosophy since 1900 |
I have a real repugnance for writing things that tell everyone specifically how to do something or other spiri..
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