Ara Coeli: An Essay in Mystical Theology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ara Coeli: An Essay in Mystical Theology

Here are a few things which I should like to add in reference to reviews and notices of this book by the Press.

First, I want to apologise for the large number of misprints which appeared in the earlier editions. I am very much ashamed of them, and hope that they have now been corrected.

Secondly, some Roman Catholic papers, for whose friendly appreciation I am very grateful, note the omission of any reference to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I can only plead that it is very difficult to recall, on reflection, the sum total of one's indebtedness, and I suppose that very often the authors to whom we owe most are least prominently in our minds, just because their ideas have soaked so deeply into us. I should like, then, to repair my neglect, and acknowledge gratefully the help which I have received from the Exercises, especially, I think, in the first two chapters of my book. But I must add, on the other hand, that the complicated scheme of meditation recom mended by him is the sort of method against which I venture to argue in Chapter VII.

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