The Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love

Christian mysticism. Contents: The First Step: Conformity with God’s Will; The Second Step: Voluntary Poverty; The Third Step: Purity of Soul and Body; The Fourth Step: Humility and Her Four Daughter-Virtues, As a Spring With Four Streams; The Fifth Step: The Highest of All the Virtues, The Striving After God’s Honour in the Inner Life; The Sixth Step: The Contemplative Life in Its First Moment of Union With the Trinity; The Seventh Step: The Contemplative Life in Its Second Moment: The Annihilation in God’s Essence.