The Cell of Self-Knowledge

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The Cell of Self-Knowledge is a collection of seven early English Mystical Treatises. Includes: A very Devout Treatise, named Benjamin, of the Mights and Virtues of Man's Soul, and of the Way to True Contemplation, compiled by a Noble and Famous Doctor, a man of great holiness and devotion, named Richard of Saint Victor; Divers Doctrines Devout and Fruitful, taken out of the Life of that Glorious Virgin and Spouse of Our Lord, Saint Katherin of Seenes; A Short Treatise of Contemplation taught by Our Lord Jesu Christ, or taken out of the Book of Margery Kempe, Ancress of Lynn; A Devout Treatise compiled by Master Walter Hylton of the Song of Angels; A Devout Treatise called the Epistle of Prayer; A very necessary Epistle of Discretion in Stirrings of the Soul; and, A Devout Treatise of Discerning of Spirits, very necessary for Ghostly Livers. This edition, edited by Edmund G. Gardner was originally published in 1910.

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