Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde

About this eBook

Author

Mechthild, of Magdeburg, 1212?-1282?

Title

Matelda and the cloister of Hellfde : extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures

Subject

Spiritual life -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

eBook-No.

35811

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35811

Release Date

April 9, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MATELDA AND THE CLOISTER OF HELLFDE — MATELDA AND THE CLOISTER OF HELLFDE
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.The Cloister of Hellfde — Gertrude Von Hackeborn. — The Dark Side of Hellfde. — Matilda. — A word as to the Béguines. — The Great Sorrow. — Matilda and Dante. — The Book and its Origin. — The Journey to Eternal Peace. — The Path of Love. — The Journey through the Wilderness. — Practice. — 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 God comes into the Soul. — 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. — Knowledge and Enjoyment. — 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. — How the Soul praises God for Seven Things, and God praiseth the Soul who loves Him. — A fivefold Song of the Soul to God, and how God is a Robe of the Soul, and the Soul a robe of God. — 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. — The Road wherein the Soul leadeth the Senses, and where the Soul is Free from Care. — How the Bride casts away the Solace of Created Things, and seeks only the Comfort of God. — Of Love, the Handmaiden of the Soul, and of the Soul whom Love hath Smitten. — Be thou in Suffering a Lamb, a Dove, and a Bride. — Of the Two Golden Chalices of Sorrow and of Comfort. — The Working of Blessed Love. — How God speaks to the Soul in Three Places. — Of False Love. — Matilda’s Faith. — The Echo of the Book. — Matilda’s Last Years. — The Labour of the Lord. — The Prayer of the Longing Heart. — Prayers. — 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. — Four Things that Belong to Faith. — From a Friend to a Friend. — Something of Paradise. — The End of the Journey. — The Last Poem. — The Nun Gertrude. — The Voice that for ever Speaks. — Transcriber’s Notes

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