The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection
Author | : Walter Hilton |
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Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Devotional literature |
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Author | : Walter Hilton |
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Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Devotional literature |
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Author | : Walter Hilton |
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Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2010-11-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781456308445 |
THE SCALE (OR LADDER) OF PERFECTION is a guide to the contemplative life in which the soul is reformed to the image and likeness of God. Book One provides an overview of contemplation and its prerequisites, a discussion of prayer and meditation, and a path for dealing with sins, both obvious and hidden, through self-awareness, humility, and the love of God. By these means one passes through the darkness known to another English mystic as "the cloud of unknowing." Book Two distinguishes between the reform of the soul that is in faith only and the reform that is in both faith and feeling. Loving Jesus is the way through the initial darkness that one sees after withdrawal from the world of the senses, and God gives light to those who persevere in this work. The spiritual eye is opened in a way that cannot be arrived at by mere intellectual study, nor by individual effort. Contemplation is given by God. After further progress, the soul knows itself as it is, and Jesus speaks directly to her.
Author | : Walter Hilton |
Publisher | : Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books, [19--?] |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Devotional literature |
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Author | : Walter Hilton |
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Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-10 |
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ISBN | : 9780140448528 |
A guide for a full Christian life, including prayer, meditation, contemplation and physical action. Walter Hilton (died 1395) is widely regarded as the first among medieval English mystics and The Ladder has provided continuous inspiration since its appearance.
Author | : Walter Hilton |
Publisher | : Aeterna Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
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Genre | : Religion |
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OF all the old English ascetical works which were extant before the Reformation none have maintained their reputation longer than Walter Hilton’s “Scale of Perfection.” Hilton was a canon of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire, and died in 1395. His “Scale of Perfection” is found in no less than five MSS. in the British Museum alone. Wynkyn de Worde printed it at least three times—in the years 1494, 1519 and 1525. Many other editions were printed at the same period. Aeterna Press
Author | : Walter Hilton |
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Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2009-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781926777115 |
THE LADDER OF PERFECTION is a guide to the contemplative life in which the soul is reformed to the image and likeness of God. Book One provides an overview of contemplation and its prerequisites, a discussion of prayer and meditation, and a path for dealing with sins, both obvious and hidden, through self-awareness, humility, and the love of God. By these means one passes through the darkness known to another English mystic as "the cloud of unknowing." Book Two distinguishes between the reform of the soul that is in faith only and the reform that is in both faith and feeling. Loving Jesus is the way through the initial darkness that one sees after withdrawal from the world of the senses, and God gives light to those who persevere in this work. The spiritual eye is opened in a way that cannot be arrived at by mere intellectual study, nor by individual effort. Contemplation is given by God. After further progress, the soul knows itself as it is, and Jesus speaks directly to her.
Author | : Revelation Insight Publishing Company |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0982330170 |
THE LADDER OF PERFECTION is a guide to the contemplative life in which the soul is reformed to the image and likeness of God. Book One provides an overview of contemplation and its prerequisites, a discussion of prayer and meditation, and a path for dealing with sins, both obvious and hidden, through self-awareness, humility, and the love of God. By these means one passes through the darkness known to another English mystic as "the cloud of unknowing." Book Two distinguishes between the reform of the soul that is in faith only and the reform that is in both faith and feeling. Loving Jesus is the way through the initial darkness that one sees after withdrawal from the world of the senses, and God gives light to those who persevere in this work. The spiritual eye is opened in a way that cannot be arrived at by mere intellectual study, nor by individual effort. Contemplation is given by God. After further progress, the soul knows itself as it is, and Jesus speaks directly to her.
Author | : Walter Hilton |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2001-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1580443931 |
Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection maintains a secure place among the major religious treatises composed in fourteenth-century England. This guide to the contemplative life, written in two books of more than 40,000 words each, is notable for its careful explorations of its religious themes and also as a monument of Middle English prose. Its popularity is attested by the fact that some forty-two manuscripts containing one or both of the books survive, with a relatively large number of manuscipts with Book I alone, which suggests it may have been the more popular of the two. Hilton (born c. 1343) was a member of the religious order known as the Augustinian Canons. There is reason to believe that be was trained in canon law and studied at the University of Cambridge. He was the author of a number of works in English and Latin, all much shorter than The Scale. He died at the Augustinian Priory of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire in 1396. On the basis of the content of certain of his works it can be safely inferred that he was actively involved in some of the religious controversies current in England in the 1380s and 1390s, and his principal concern, evident in The Scale , is to defend orthodox belief, especially in the conduct of the contemplative life.
Author | : Walter Hilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Perfection |
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Author | : Walter Hilton |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9780243696307 |