A modern edition containing the complete text of Augustine Baker's classic work on spiritual direction.
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In one of the essential works of Christian ascetic spirituality, Baker's English recusant spirituality brings an oddly freeing severity to his religious aesthetic at every juncture; an outlook that is ever inward seeking, born whole out of a wild and beautifully impatient spirituality that has no perimeters short of bliss. By the purity of Baker's doctrinal whole cloth, Christian teaching attains a universal spiritual essence unlike that found within Aquinas' bindings, for example - one equipped with a wider, and thus less problematic, reach; an expansive conquest is the result, the contemplative asthetic full born and ready for the plucking. This book proves that deep is wide, and deeper is wider; and bequeaths, almost as if by birthright, the wide road of the heart fixed on attainment. Baker's teaching is constant, almost incessant, and rife with a dry and devout English care. Treasured by religious of many traditions, this is a one of a kind book of training for any wayfarer sincere in seeking. Mine is an older Faber and Faber edition which I've read many times through, and I'm scandalised at the price here - I suppose availability, and thus cost, is guided by public necessity. Would that more of us sought what remains, even in this astonished age, an antidote to barbarity, and a guide to the rooms of light.
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