Select Library of Mystics

TO THE READERS

neighbor Completing "proxi-mi" from the previous page, while carefully distinguishing between those things in the Christian Religion that are essential and those that are merely secondary. Truly, whoever holds these things from the heart—that is, whoever keeps the Love of God original: "Dei Amorem" and of their neighbor, and those things which are essentially joined to these and are pointed out in Peaceable or Comparative Theology Theologia Pacifica sive Comparativa: A 17th-century approach to ending religious wars by focusing on shared core beliefs rather than denominational differences—and whoever observes them with a peaceful and upright mind, will by this very fact be rendered fit to receive truly spiritual, mystical, and divine Theology as it is communicated from its own divine source. For these are the promises of Christ, which cannot fail: “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and MANIFEST MYSELF TO HIM.” And a little later: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and WE WILL COME TO HIM AND MAKE OUR HOME WITH HIM.” John 14: 21, 23. This means: he who keeps the essentials of Christianity, and thus loves Christ and his Father (which [Love]... The sentence continues on the next page; the catchword is "rem," completing "Amorem" or "Love"