CHAPTER XXI. Remedies against Evil Friendships. HOW are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning…
CHAPTER XX. Of the Difference between True and False Friendship. TAKE notice, my child, that the honey of Heraclyum, which is so poisonous, altogether resembles…
CHAPTER XIX. Of Real Friendship. DO you, my child, love every one with the pure love of charity, but have no friendship save with those…
CHAPTER XVIII. On Frivolous Attachments. SUCH foolish attachments between man and woman without any matrimonial intentions as are called amourettes,–mere abortions, or rather phantoms of…
CHAPTER XVII. On Friendship: Evil and Frivolous Friendship. FOREMOST among the soul’s affections is love. Love is the ruler of every motion of the heart;…
CHAPTER XV. How to exercise real Poverty, although actually Rich. THE painter Parrhasius drew an ingenious and imaginative representation of the Athenians, ascribing sundry opposite…
CHAPTER XI. On Obedience. LOVE alone leads to perfection, but the three chief means for acquiring it are obedience, chastity, and poverty. Obedience is a…
Steven’s face shining like the sun and the religious response, ”stone him!”. Religious people took his mortal life. Elijah the Tishbite demonstrated…
CHAPTER V. On Interior Humility. TO you however, my daughter, I would teach a deeper humility, for that of which I have been speaking is…
The blood of Christ has been shed over all creation, only unbelief blinds us to it. Your soul is covered in the…
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