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• Justifications de la doctrine de Madame de la Mothe-Guion : pleinement éclaircie, démontrée & autorisée par les Sts. Peres Grecs, Latins & auteurs cannonisés ou approuvés (Chez les Libraires Associés, 1790), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon and François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon (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)
• The spiritual guide which disintangles the soul, and brings it by the inward way, to the getting of perfect contemplation, and the rich treasure of internal peace. / Written by Dr. Michael de Molinos, priest : with a short treatise concerning daily communion, by the same author. Translated from the Italian copy, printed at Venice, 1685. (London : Printed for Tho. Fabian ..., 1688), by Miguel de Molinos (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Spiritual Guide Which Disentangles the Soul and Brings It by the Inward Way to the Getting of Perfect Contemplation and the Rich Treasure of Internal Peace, by Miguel de Molinos (PDF with commentary at adamford.com)
• Quiétisme; querelle de Bossuet & de Fénelon. (H. Delesques, 1894), by Jacques-François Denis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explication des Articles d'Issy, publiée pour la première fois avec une introduction, des notes et des appendices. Thèse complémentaire présentée à la Faculté des lettres de l'Université de Paris (Hachette et cie, 1915), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon and A. Chérel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphos de la castidad, contra la luxuria diabolica de molinos (Impresso por D. Valverde y D. Rodriguez, 1698), by Bienaventurado Francisco de Posadas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guía espiritual : que desembaraza el alma, y la conduce por el interior camino, para alcanzar la perfecta contemplación, y el rico tesoro de la interior paz (Biblioteca Orientalista, 1906), by Miguel de Molinos and Rafael Urbano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie de Messire Jean d'Aranthon d'Alex, êvêque, et prince de Geneve. (Thibaud-Landroit, 1834), by Innocent Le Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Einfluss der Madame Guyon auf die Norddeutsche Laienwelt im 18. Jahrhundert (Staats-Druckerei, 1928), by Hermann Martin Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explication des maximes des saints sur la vie intérieure (Bloud, 1911), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon and A. Chérel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to true peace, or, A method of attaining to inward and spiritual prayer (Henry Longstreth, 1846), by James Janson, William Backhouse, Miguel de Molinos, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, and François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Ame amante de son Dieu : représentée dans les Emblemes de Hermannus Hugo, et dans ceux d'Othon Vaenius sur l'amour divin : avec des figures nouvelles, accompagnées de vers qui en font l'application aux dispositions les plus essentielles de la vie intérieure (Chez les Libraires Associés, 1790), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Otto van Veen, and Herman Hugo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres chretiennes et spirituelles sur divers sujets qui regardent la vie interieure, ou l'esprit du vrai christianisme ([s.n.], 1767), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon and François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guida spirituale : che disinvolge l' anima e la conduce per l' interior cammino all' acquisto della perfetta contemplazione e del ricco tesoro della pace interior (F. Perrella, 1908), by Miguel de Molinos and Giovanni Amendola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bossuet, Fénelon, le quiétisme (J. Gabalda, 1912), by abbé Huvelin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le maitre de Fénelon : M. Tronson et le Livre des Maximes des Saints (Librairie des bons livres, 1913), by R. Bassibey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michael de Molinos : ein Bild aus der Kirchengeschichte des siebenzehnten Jahrhunderts (Friedr. Andr. Perthes, 1855), by Carl Emil Scharling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mystikeren Michael Molinos's lære og skjæbne (B. Luno, 1852), by Carl Emil Scharling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maxims of the saints (H. R. Allenson, 1903), by M. Villemain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction sur les estats d'oraison, où sont exposʹees les erreurs des faux mystiques de nos jours, avec les actes de leur condannation (Chez Jean Anisson, 1697), by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spiritual guide, which disintangles the soul, and brings it by the inward way, to the getting of perfect contemplation, and the rich treasure of internal peace. ([London?], 1689), by Miguel de Molinos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spiritual torrents (O. Clapp, 1853), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Emanuel Swedenborg, and A. E. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul and brings it by the inward way to the getting of perfect contemplation and the rich creature of internal peace (Hodder and Stoughton, 1928), by Miguel de Molinos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden thoughts from The spiritual guide of Miguel Molinos, the quietist (C. Scribner, 1883), by Miguel de Molinos and J. H. Shorthouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Fénelon et la doctrine de l'amour pur d'après sa correspondance avec ses principaux amis] Appendice: Contribution à une édition critique de la correspondance de Fénelon et lettres et documents inédits. (Facultés catholiques, etc., 1907), by Albert Delplanque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nedelanie (Posrednik, [1907], 1907), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réponse inédite à Bossuet (Librairie internationale, 1901), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• La méthode d'oraison hésychaste : son premier exposé, attribué à Syméon le Nouveau théologien (Roma : Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1927., 1927), by Irénée Hausherr and the New Theologian Symeon (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)
• Spiritual Torrents, by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Explication des maximes des saints sur la vie interieure. English (London : Printed for H. Rhodes, 1698), by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, King of France Louis XIV, Louis-Antoine de Noailles, Paul Godet des Marais, and Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Relation sur le quietisme. English. 1698 (London : Printed for J. Harris ..., and A. Bell..., 1698), by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Three letters concerning the present state of Italy written in the year 1687 ... : being a supplement to Dr. Burnet's letters. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1688), by Gilbert Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cum alias. English ([London : s.n., 1700]), by Catholic Church. Pope (1691-1700 : Innocent XII) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Bibliotheque Janseniste, ou Catalogue alphabetique des principaux livres Jansenistes, ou suspects de Jansenisme, qui ont paru depuis la naissance de cette hérésie, avec des notes critiques sur les veritables auteurs de ces livres, sur les erreurs qui y sont contenuës & sur les condamnations qui en ont été faites par le Saint Siége ([Lyon], 1731), by Dominique de Colonia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire des livres jansénistes, ou qui favorisent le jansénisme. (Chez Jean-Baptiste Verdussen aux deux Cicognes, 1755), by Dominique de Colonia and L. Patouillet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliothèque janséniste (Chez Jean-Baptiste Verdussen aux deux Cicognes, 1752), by Dominique de Colonia and Louis Patouillet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Molinos the quietist (C. Scribner's sons, 1882), by John Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Loves of Father Rock and his intrigues with the nuns\ (Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultry, 1683), by G. L. Way and Dorman Newman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geschichte der quietistischen Mystik in der katholischen Kirche (W. Hertz, 1875), by Heinrich Heppe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quietistische Mystik. (Wilhelm Hertz, 1875), by Heinrich Heppe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The influence of quietism on the Society of Friends : a lecture delivered at Bryn Mawr College, on April 30th, 1900 (Leeds Press, 1900), by J. Rendel Harris (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Fountain of Gardens (3 volumes (last in 2 parts), 1697-1701), by Jane Lead
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  • Volume II: HTML at passtheword.org
  • Volume III, Part I: HTML at passtheword.org
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• A Living Funeral Testimony: or, Death Overcome and Drown'd in the Life of Christ (appended poem omitted; 1702), by Jane Lead (HTML at passtheword.org)
• Theologia Mystica: or, The Mystic Divinitie of the Aeternal Invisibles, viz., the Archetypous Globe, or the Original Globe, or World of All Globes, Worlds, Essences, Centers, Elements, Principles and Creations Whatsoever (1683), by John Pordage, ed. by Edward Hooker, contrib. by Jane Lead (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Theosophia Practica (third edition, 7 volumes, in German; 1722), by Johann Georg Gichtel
  • Volume 1: page images in Germany
  • Volume 2: page images in Germany
  • Volume 3: page images in Germany
  • Volume 4: page images in Germany
  • Volume 5: page images in Germany
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• Mundorum Explicatio: or, The Explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure Wherein are Couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal Worlds, Shewing the True Progress of a Soul from the Court of Babylon to the City of Jerusalem, from the Adamical Fallen State to the Regenerate and Angelical (attributed by some to both Samuel and John Pordage; London: Printed by T. R. for L. Lloyd, 1661), contrib. by Samuel Pordage and John Pordage (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Cloud of Unknowing, ed. by Patrick J. Gallacher (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Cloud of Unknowing (second edition), ed. by Evelyn Underhill (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Theosophia Practica (French translation; Paris: Chamuel, 1897), by Johann Georg Gichtel (page images at Gallica)
• Anima Magica Abscondita: or, A Discourse of the Universall Spirit of Nature, With His Strange, Abstruse, Miraculous Ascent And Descent (published under "Eugenius Philalethes" pseudonym; London: Printed by T.W. for H.B., 1650), by Thomas Vaughan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• An Introduction to Theosophy, or The Science of the Mystery of Christ: That is, of Deity, Nature, and Creature, Embracing the Philosophy of All the Working Powers of Life, Magical and Spiritual ("volume 1 complete in itself" also appears to be only volume published; London: J. Kendrick, 1855), by William Law, ed. by Christopher Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes (1919), by Thomas Vaughan, ed. by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Meister Eckeharts Schriften und Predigten (E. Diederich, 1923), by Meister Eckhart and Herman Büttner (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Ame amante de son Dieu : représentée dans les Emblemes de Hermannus Hugo, et dans ceux d'Othon Vaenius sur l'amour divin : avec des figures nouvelles, accompagnées de vers qui en font l'application aux dispositions les plus essentielles de la vie intérieure (Chez les Libraires Associés, 1790), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Otto van Veen, and Herman Hugo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Justifications de la doctrine de Madame de la Mothe-Guion : pleinement éclaircie, démontrée & autorisée par les Sts. Peres Grecs, Latins & auteurs cannonisés ou approuvés (Chez les Libraires Associés, 1790), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon and François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres chretiennes et spirituelles sur divers sujets qui regardent la vie interieure, ou l'esprit du vrai christianisme ([s.n.], 1767), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon and François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Mystères des lettres grecques d'aprés un manuscrit copte-arabe de la bibliothèque bodléienne d'Oxford (J.-B. Istas, 1902), by Saint Sabas, A. Hebbelynck, and Bodleian Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro de las tres vidas de el hombre : corporal, racional, y espiritual (en la Imprenta Real :, 1710), by Miguel de la Fuente, José Rodríguez de Escobar, and Imprenta Real (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pasion de Cristo (J.T. Lucas, 1757), by Juana de la Encarnacion, Joseph Molero, and Luis Ignacio Ceballos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obras del venerable padre fray Juan de la Cruz (Por B. de Villa-Diego :, 1672), by Saint John of the Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geistliche Blüten aus Heinrich Suso. (Adolph Marcus, 1834), by Heinrich Seuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theosophick philosophy unfolded (Printed for Tho. Salusbury, 1691), by Jakob Böhme, Edward Taylor, and Frank Baker Collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vita et opere spirituali (Per Nicolò Agnelo Tinassi, 1663), by Heinrich Seuse and Ignazio Del Nente (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stichtelyke gezangen (By Kornelis vander Sys..., 1734), by Jan Luiken and Kornelis van der Sys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alle göttliche Schriften (s.n.], 1730), by Jakob Böhme, Balthasar Walther, and Johann Georg Gichtel (page images at HathiTrust)
• 40 questions of the soul (Printed for L. Lloyd at the Castle in Cornhil, 1665), by Jakob Böhme and Balthasar Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Weg zu Christo, verfasset in neun Büchlein ... (s.n.], 1732), by Jakob Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behmen's works (Printed for M. Richardson in Pater-noster Row, 1764), by Jakob Böhme and William Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alle theosophische Wercken ([s.n.], 1682), by Jakob Böhme, Johann Georg Gichtel, and Balthasar Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ihren Gott liebende Seele, vorgestellt in den Sinnbildern des Hermanni Hugonis über seine Pia desideria, und des Ottonis Vaenii, über die Liebe Gottes, mit neuen Kupffern und Versen, welche zielen auf das innere Christenthum, aus dem Frantzösischen ins Teutsche übersetzt. (Verlegt von Emerich Felix Bader, 1743), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Emerich Felix Bader, Otto van Veen, and Herman Hugo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voncken der liefde Iesu van het God begerende zielen vier (By de Weeduwe Pieter Arentsz, in de Beursstraat, in de drie Raapen, 1696), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new life in Christ Jesus; essays on subjects relating to spiritual life. To which is added Listening to Jesus and The law of love. (A.D. Innes, 1896), by Julian Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie et Oeuvres spirituelles [de l'admirable docteur mystique le bienheureux père Saint Jean de la Croix.] (H. Oudin, 1892), by Saint John of the Cross and William James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slova dukhovno-podvizhnicheski︠ia︡ (V Universitetskoĭ Tipografīi, 1854), by Bishop of Nineveh Isaac and Paisiĭ Velichkovskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obras. (J. Pela ez, 1912), by Saint John of the Cross and Marcelino Mene ndez y Pelayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les oeuvres de sainte Catherine de Gênes (Putois-Cretté, 1860), by Saint Catherine of Genoa and Marie Théodore Renouard Bussierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jezus en de Ziel : een geestelyke Spiegel voor't gemoed, bestaande in veertig aangenaame en stichtelyke Zinnebeelde : vervat in drie deelen (By Kornelis vander Sys ..., 1722), by Jan Luiken and Kornelis van der Sys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les oeuvres de Sainte Catherine de Gênes précédées de sa vie (A. Tralin, 1913), by Saint Catherine of Genoa and Marie Théodore Renouard Bussierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theosophia practica (s.n.], 1723), by Johann Georg Gichtel, Jakob Böhme, and Johann Georg Graber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brevissima synopsis, historica, typica et mystica (Hanouiae : Typis Wechelianis, apud Haeredes Ioan. Aubrii, anno MDCXVI (1616], 1616), by Václav Budovec z Budova, Andreae Wecheli Heredes, and Haeredes Johannis Aubrii (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morgenröte im Ausgang ; Von den drei Prinzipien ; Vom dreifachen Leben (R. Piper, 1905), by Jakob Böhme, Karl Soffel, and Joseph Grabisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Garten-Brunn : gewässert durch die Ströhme der göttlichen Lustbarkeit, und hervorgrünend in mannichfaltigem Unterschiede geistlicher Pflantzen : di durch den reinen Anhauch zu einem Paradiese aufgeblasen ... oder, ein rechtes Diarium und ausführlich Tag-Verzeichnus alles desjenigen, was sich mit dieser theuren Autorin, in ihrem hohen Beruffe vom Jahre 1670 her zugetragen ... (Bey Heinrich Wetstein, 1697), by Jane Lead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eine Offenbarung der Bottschafft des ewigen Evangelii : welches gepredigt zu werden nimmer aufhören soll, bis die Stunde des Ewigen Gerichts Christi kommen wird ... ([Heinrich Wetstein], 1697), by Jane Lead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tvorenīi͡a izhe vo svi͡atykh ott͡sa nashego Avvy Isaaka Sirii͡anina, podvizhnika i otshelʹnika, byvshago episkopom khristoli͡ubivago grada Ninevii : slova podvizhnicheskīi͡a. (Tip. Sv.-Tr. Sergīevoĭ Lavry, 1911), by Bishop of Nineveh Isaac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le cantique spirituel (Soc. St-Augustin, Desclée, De Brouwer & Cie, 1923), by Saint John of the Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb-i Zād al-musāfirīn (Kāviyānī, 1923), by 1004-approximately 1088 Nāṣir-i Khusraw and Muḥammad Baz̲l al-Raḥmān (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alle göttliche Schriften des Jacob Böhmens ([publisher not identified], 1730), by Jakob Böhme, Johann Wilhelm Überfeld, and Johann Georg Gichtel (page images at HathiTrust)
• De signatura rerum. English (London : Printed by John Macock for Gyles Calvert ..., 1651), by Jakob Böhme and John Ellistone (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Weg zu Christo. English (London : Printed by M.S. for H. Blunden ..., 1648), by Jakob Böhme and John Sparrow (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tafeln von den dreyen Principien göttlicher Offenbarung. English (London : Printed for H. Blunden, and sold at the Castle in Corn-Hill, 1654), by Jakob Böhme and H. B. (Henry Blunden) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Fountain of gardens. Vol. 1. (London : printed and sold by J. Bradford, near Crowder's-Well, 1696), by Jane Lead (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Fountain of gardens. Vol. 2. (London : printed, and sold by by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1697), by Jane Lead (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Orcharde of Syon. ([Imprynted at London : In flete strete, at the sygne of the sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde, The yere of oure lorde. M.CCCCC. [and] xix, and the. xxviii. daye of Septe[m]ber. [1519]]), by of Capua Raymond and James (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Weg zu Christo. Selections. Welsh. 1654. ([London : s.n.], Ag ai printiwyd 1657.), by Jakob Böhme, Morgan Llwyd, and John Sparrow (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union beleevers have with God and Christ, and the glorious priviledges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye. (London : Printed by Peter Cole ..., 1656), by Thomas Hooker, Thomas Goodwin, and Philip Nye (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Baum des christlichen Glaubens. English (London, : Printed by John Macock, M.CX.L.IV. [i.e. 1654]), by Jakob Böhme and John Sparrow (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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