An outcry is made by people with whom such a person is acquainted, and even by those with whom she is not acquainted and who she never in her life supposed would think about her at all. “How holy she’s…
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The Critics
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Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 1
Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 1
Mr. Vyse and His Problem
She shook her head. “Go, please. I do not want to call in Mr. Vyse.” “You don’t mean,” he said . . . “you don’t mean that you are going to marry that man?” The line was unexpected. She shrugged…
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Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 1
Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 1
Wounded With Love
Well then, let us, with the help of the Holy Spirit, speak of the sixth dwelling places, where the soul is now wounded with love for its Spouse and strives for more opportunities to be alone and, in conformity with…
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Posted in 6th Mansions - Chapter 1
Spiritual Progress
Let the conclusion of the whole matter be this. We must strive all the time to advance, and, if we are not advancing, we must cherish serious misgivings, as the devil is undoubtedly anxious to exercise his wiles upon us.…
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Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Slipping Away
But the devil comes with his artful wiles, and, under color of doing good, sets about undermining it (the soul) in trivial ways, and involving it in practices that, so he gives it to understand are not wrong; little by…
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Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
Posted in 5th Mansions - Chapter 4, Spiritual Warfare
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