Contents
Table of Contents
The Journey through the Wilderness.
Gleanings from Matilda’s Book.
How God is to be Praised for Eight Things.
How God draweth the Soul to Himself.
The Soul’s Desire sent Forth to Seek the Beloved One.
The Complaint of the Loving Soul, and the Answer of God.
How the Soul receiveth God, and how God receiveth the Soul.
The Soul’s fivefold Praise of God.
Of the Soul’s Complaint, of the Garden, and of the New Song.
God’s fivefold Comparing of the Soul.
God’s sixfold Delight in the Soul.
The Prayer for Love, and the Answer thereof.
Love unto Death; Love Immeasurable; Love Eternal.
God asks the Soul what She brings, and She Answereth.
The Lord giveth a tenfold Honour to the Soul.
Between God and the Soul only Love.
How God maketh the Soul to be Free and Wise in His Love.
Be thou in Suffering a Lamb, a Dove, and a Bride.
Of the Two Golden Chalices of Sorrow and of Comfort.
How God speaks to the Soul in Three Places.
The Prayer of the Longing Heart.
Of the Good Works of Men, how They Shine by the Work of the Lord.
The Soul that Loveth Speaketh to her Lord.
Seven Things known to the Longing of Love.
Of a Sin that is Worse than all Other Sins.
How Love was seen with her Handmaidens—A Parable.