Opuscules spirituels. Nouvelle edition, augmentée de son rare traité des torrents, qui n?avoit pas encore vû le jour, & d?une préface generale touchant sa personne, sa doctrine, & les oppositions qu?on leur a susitées.

MOTTE GUYON, Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la.

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Cologne [= Amsterdam], Jean de la Pierre, 1704. 12mo. 64,+ (10),+ 532,+ (2) pp. Title printed in red and black. With an engraved title page included in the pagination. Tear in p. 55. Small stain on p. 483. Very nice contemporary sprinkled paper boards with handwritten title label. Red sprinkled edges. From the library of the Provincial masonic lodge of Gothenburg, with its bookplate and its partially removed handwritten number-label on spine. VD18 15317617. Later edition of texts by Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon, commonly known as Madame Guyon, (1648-1717). She was a French mystic and, although she never called herself a Quietist, accused of advocating Quietism, which was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703. Among other things this volume contains the texts: ?Moyen court et tres-facile de faire orasion? (1685), ?Les torrents spirituels: Qui est comme une suite naturelle du Moyen court et tres-facile de faire orasion?, and ?Le cantique des cantiques de Salomon, interpreté selon le sens mistique & la vraie representation des États interieurs? (1688).

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• Title: Opuscules spirituels. Nouvelle edition, augmentée de son rare traité des torrents, qui n?avoit pas encore vû le jour, & d?une préface generale touchant sa personne, sa doctrine, & les oppositions qu?on leur a susitées.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Hardcover / Hardback