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Meditation

Here are entered works on mental prayer as a method of promoting the spiritual life. Collections of thoughts on spiritual truths for use in meditation are entered under Meditations.

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• Meditation -- Église catholique
• Meditation -- Buddhism
• Meditation -- Catholic Church
• Meditation -- Christianity
• Meditation -- Church of England
• Meditation -- Early works to 1800
• Meditation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Meditation -- Hinduism
• Meditation -- Miscellanea
• Meditation -- Periodicals
• Meditation -- Sermons
• Meditation -- Theravāda Buddhism
• Transcendental Meditation
• Eucharistie -- Meditation
• Jesus Christ -- Meditation

• Mental prayer
• Prayer, Mental

• Transmission: A Meditation for the New Age (fifth edition, c2006), by Benjamin Creme (PDF with commentary at share-international.org)
• Guide of the Man of Good Will in the Exercise of Mental Prayer (American edition translated from French; 1887), by Joseph Simler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters on Occult Meditation (ca. 1922), by Alice Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Silence (Los Angeles: The Master Press, 1925), by Evelyn Whitell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ways of Mental Prayer (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1917), by Vital Lehodey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yoga, Meditation and Japa Sadhana, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML at Divine Life Society)
• Ideal suggestion through mental photography : a restorative system for home and private use : preceded by a study of the laws of mental healing (Lee & Shepard, 1893), by Henry Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de l'oraison et de la meditation, contenant les considerations que l'on peut faire sur les principaux mystères de nostre foy. (Charles Osmont, 1702), by de Granada Luis and Guillaume Girard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hearings on the Equal Access Act hearings before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2732 ... hearings held in Washington, D.C., on June 16, October 18, 19, and 20, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by Secondary United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Christ in the school of prayer : thoughts on our training for the ministry of intercession (A.G. Watson, 1885), by Andrew Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress through mental prayer (Sheed & Ward, 1940), by Edward Leen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shikan kōroku (Seikōsha, 1925), by Seikōsha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In the hours of meditation. (Advaita Ashrama, 1921), by A disciple (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of peace : [being a collection of prose, verse (Chiswick Press, 1900), by Pamela Grey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sunday meditations and selected prose sketches. (R. Clarke, 1893), by Donn Piatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pathway of the spirit. A guide to inspiration, illumination, and divine realization on earth ... (F.F. Lovell & Co., 1890), by John Hamlin Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short method of mental prayer (Benziger, 1920), by Nicolo Ridolfi and Raymund Devas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian truth: A family guide to the chief truths of the Gospel ... (R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1838), by Edward Bickersteth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Meditation des Predigers (bey Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1820), by Friedrich August Crome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private thoughts upon religion and a Christian life : to which is added the necessity and advantage of frequent communion (J. Hatchard, 1834), by William Beveridge and Henry Stebbing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations and addresses on the subject of prayer (R. Carter, 1849), by Hugh White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great law of consideration : or, A discourse, wherein the nature, usefulness, and absolute necessity of consideration, in order to a truly serious and religious life, is laid open (Printed for A. Bettesworth ... J. Hazard ... J. Hooke ... and R. Ware ..., 1729), by Anthony Horneck, Christopher Monck Albemarle, S. Chapman, Richard Ware, John Hooke, Joseph Hazard, and Arthur Bettesworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impersonal life. (Sun Pub. Co., 1926), by Joseph S. Benner and Sun Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A spiritual compendium : in which the principal difficulties in the way of perfection are explained (Burns and Oates, 1873), by Gaspar de la Figuera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations on the mysteries of our holy faith : together with a treatise on mental prayer (Richardson, 1852), by Luis de la Puente and F. C. Borgo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons at the cross; or, Spiritual truths familiarly exhibited in their relations to Christ (Gould, 1860), by Samuel Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great law of consideration: or a discourse wherein the nature, usefulness, and absolute necessity of consideration, in order to a truly serious and religious life, is laid open. (Printed for Samuel Lowndes, 1694), by Anthony Horneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations vpon the mysteries of ovr holie faith, with the practice of mental prayer tovching the same (At S. Omers,canno Domini 1619., 1619), by Luis de la Puente (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditationes de praecipuis fidei nostrae mysteriis (Herder, 1908), by Luis de la Puente (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The practice of mental prayer (P.J. Kenedy & sons, 1915), by René de Maumigny and Elder Mullan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pisemka ulotne i okolicznościowe (Drukiem National Pub. and Catalog Co., 1922), by Tomasz Misicki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Like Christ thoughts on the blessed life on conformity to the Son of God (F.H. Revell, 1895), by Andrew Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Vade-mecum de l'âme pieuse ou La semaine sanctifiée en union avec le Sacré-Coeur (s.n.], 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'âme élevée à Dieu par les réflexions et les sentiments, pour chaque jour du mois ; suivi de L'âme pénitente ou Le nouveau pensez-y bien (Ad Mame, 1863), by Barthélemi Baudrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'âme élevée a Dieu, par les réflexions et les sentimens pour chaque jour du mois. (Imprimée a la Nouvelle-Imprimerie ..., 1811), by Barthélemi Baudrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Like Christ thoughts on the blessed life on conformity to the Son of God : a sequel to 'Abide in Christ' (S.R. Briggs, 1886), by Andrew Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The saint's spiritual delight and a Christian on the mount (s.n.], 1862), by Thomas Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'âme élevée à Dieu par les réflexions et les sentiments pour chaque jour du mois suivie de L'âme pénitente ou Le nouveau pensez-y-bien. (V. Sarlit, 1859), by Barthélemi Baudrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ma direction extrait des Paillettes d'or. (s.n., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Méthode pour réciter le chapelet en méditant (s.n., in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'oraison sa nature, son importance, ses difficultés, d'aprés sainte Thérèse et les grands auteurs spirituels (Impr. de l'Institution des sourds-muets, 1918), by Joseph Carrée (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Self-training in meditation (Longmans, Green & co., 1917), by A. H. McNeile (page images at HathiTrust)
• The increase of God. (Longmans, Green, 1919), by A. H. McNeile (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deeper meanings. (Ellis, 1894), by Frederic A. Hinckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Okada-shiki kokyū seizahō to jikken (Bunʼeikaku Shoten, Shunjūsha Shoten, 1912), by Gingetsu Itō (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Of the imitation of Christ; four books. (D. Appleton & Co.;, 1844), by Imitatio Christi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditation ; its practice and results (The Theosophical Press, 1930), by Clara Codd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meditations on the mysteries of our Holy Faith : together with a treatise on mental prayer (Richardson, 1860), by Luis de la Puente, F. C. Borgo, and John Heigham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditationes in compendium redactae et magno meditationum numero de praecipuis sanctorum festis auctae (Typis et sumptibus Catholicae Unionis Typographicae, 1892), by Luis de la Puente and Nicolas Frizon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fellowship of silence : being experiencs in the common use of prayer without words (Macmillan, 1916), by Thomas Hodgkin and Cyril Hepher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thoughts for weary hours. (T. Whittaker, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Siedem krótkich kazań (Drukiem Dziennika Zjednoczenia, 1922), by Tomasz Misicki (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impersonal life. (Sun Publishing Co., 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concordia, entre la quietud, y la fatiga de la oracion (En Madrid : En la imprenta de Alonso Balvàs ..., año de 1733., 1733), by Paolo Segneri, Giuseppe Massei, and Alonso Balvás (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life abiding and abounding : Bible studies in prayer and meditation (Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1910), by W. H. Griffith Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A golden treatise of mental prayer : with divers spiritual rules and directions, no less profitable, than necessary, for all sorts of people. (Philadelphia : M. Fithian, 1844., 1844), by of Alcantara Peter and Giles Willoughby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A method and instructions for the art of divine meditation with instances of the several kindes of solemne meditation / by Thomas White. (London : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672), by Thomas White (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Meditations vppon the mysteries of our holy faith with the practise of mental praier touching the same composed in Spanish by the R.F. Luys de la Puente ... ; and translated into English by F. Rich. Gibbons ... ([S.l. : s.n.], M. DC. X. [1610]), by Luis de la Puente and Richard Gibbons (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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