Selected Extracts

Preface

happens on one's knees and requires great, sustained earnestness; of this we will say no more here, but rather direct the God-seeking reader to the words of the author original: "Auctoris" and wish to recommend original: "recommendiren" in advance what he writes on page 352, section 6, regarding his own former practice original: "Praxi"; referring to his spiritual exercises or lived experience.

As he reports in another place, the Creator has once again succeeded in the building within him; let everyone see to how they build upon it, and not stare gapingly original: "vergaffe"; implies being distracted or mesmerized to one's own detriment at the Tree of Knowledge. The Tree of Life stands, praise God, once again in bloom Flor: a state of spiritual flourishing or flowering; a period of renewal. May gracious love for humanity keep it so, and transfigure it more and more in all its children, so that they may stand firm within against the various subtle intrusions original: "Hinterschleichungen"; refers to the deceptive, "creeping-in" tactics of spiritual temptation of their mighty Adversary, and that he may not succeed through his—