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• Les Secrets de la Vie Spirituelle Qui en Découvrent les Illusions (in French; Paris: E. Michallet, 1673), by F. Guilloré (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life, by Richard Rolle, trans. by Richard Misyn (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Interior Castle: or, The Mansions (London: T. Jones, 1852), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by John Dalton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Interior Castle, or, The Mansions (third edition, 1921), by Saint Teresa of Avila, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Ladder of Perfection, by Walter Hilton (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Scale of Perfection, by Walter Hilton, ed. by Thomas H. Bestul (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Letters of St. Teresa (London: Thomas Baker, 1902), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by John Dalton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Way of Perfection, and Conceptions of Divine Love (London: C. Dolman, 1852), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by John Dalton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The complete works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori : the ascetical works (Redemptorist Fathers, 1926), by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori and Eugene Grimm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entretiens de l'Abbé Jean et du prestre Eusebe / par François de Suel. (Anisson, Posuel & Rigaud, 1684), by François Du Suel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres de Saint François de Sales ... (Impr. J. Niérat, 1892), by Saint Francis de Sales and Benedict Mackey (page images at HathiTrust)
• (La) Santa Messa ed il divino offizio ... . (Roma, 1862), by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomæ a Kempis canonici regularis ord. S. Augustini de imitatione Christi libri quatuor : nunc postremò ad autographorum fidem recensiti ; cum vindiciis Kempensibus Heriberti Rosvveydi Soc. Iesu, aduersus C. Caietanum Abbatem S. Baronti ; ad S. D. N. Paulum V. (ex officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem & Ioannem Moretos, 1617), by Heribert Rosweyde, Thomas à Kempis, Balthasar Moretus, Jan Moretus, and Plantijnsche Drukkerij (Amberes) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia de la vida del padre y celebre maestro, fray Luys de Granada, de la Orden de Predicadores (H. Margarit, 1615), by de Granada Luis and Juan de Marieta (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)
• Self-renunciation (Longmans, Green, 1902), by F. Guilloré and Thomas Thellusson Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres de S. François de Sales : evesque et prince de Geneve, instituteur de l'Ordre de la Visitation ... (Chez Claude Herissant, Imprimeur de l'Ordre ..., 1758), by Saint Francis de Sales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opvscvla venerabilis Thomae de Kempis canonici regvlaris (Stephanus Sabiensis, 1535), by Thomas à Kempis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pia desideria, authore Hermanno Hugone è Societate Iesu (Apud Ioannem Henault ..., 1670), by Herman Hugo and Boëce van Bolswert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pattrwm y gwir Gristion (Jarvis & Foster, 1908), by H. Elvet Lewis and University of Wales. Guild of Graduates (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)
• La vie parfaite (V. Palmé, 1875), by Saint Francis de Sales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes spirituelles pour la conduite des âmes : également utiles aux directeurs et aux pénitens (Clermont-Ferrand : Thibaud-Landriot, 1835., 1835), by F. Guilloré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro de vita contemplativa, lectione, meditatione, oratione, contemplatione, scala dil paradiso intitulato (Impresso nellinclita citta di Bressa : nellofficina di magistro Io. Antonio Morandi da Gandino, lanno del Signore MDXXVII adi. 28. del mese de zugno [1527], 1527), by Antonio Meli and Giovanni Antonio Bresciano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb al-Istiʻdād lil-mawt (Dayr al-Ruhbān al-Faransiskānīyīn, 1851), by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori and Maksīmūs ibn Jurjis Maẓlūm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guía de pecadores, en la qual se contiene una larga, y copiosa exhortación a la virtud, y guarda de los mandamientos divinos. (Impr. de M.Martín, 1768), by de Granada Luis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breve resumo da mystica theologia para instrucção dos directores (Officina de Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1789), by Francisco da Conceiçào (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; US access only)
• The secret paths of divine love (Burns, Oates and Washbourne Ltd., 1928), by de Barbanson Constantin, Nun of Stanbrook Abbey, Justin McCann, and George Touchet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Opera omnia (Coloniae [Cologne] : Apud Balthasarem ab Egmond, MDCCXV [1715], 1715), by Jeremias Drexel, J. B. Keijnoogen, Balthasar von Egmondt, active 1637-1664 Weduwe van Jan Cnobbaert, and Mass.) Boston College High School (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obras del venerable P. maestro Fr. Luis de Granada de la Orden de Santo Domingo. (Madrid : Por don Antonio de Sancha, año de 1781-1789., 1781), by de Granada Luis, Antonio de Sancha, Climacus John, and John A. Mackay Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Following of Christ, in Four Books: Translated from the Original Latin of Thomas a Kempis, by à Kempis Thomas, trans. by Richard Challoner (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'imitation de Jésus-Christ: Traduction nouvelle avec des réflexions à la fin de chaque chapitre (in French), by à Kempis Thomas, trans. by Félicité Robert de Lamennais (Gutenberg ebook)
• Matelda and the cloister of Hellfde : extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg, by of Magdeburg Mechthild, trans. by Frances Bevan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vanidad del mundo. English (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Windet, 1608), by Diego de Estella and Thomas Rogers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Spill de la vida religiosa. English. (Imprinted at Roane [i.e England] : [English Secret Press], by the permission of superiours, Anno 1604) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tree and xii. frutes of the holy goost. ([London : R. copland & M. fawkes, 1535]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Methode facile d'oraison reduite en pratique. English (London : Printed by Thomas Hales, 1694), by François Nepveu (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Libro de la oración y meditación. (Imprinted at Paris : By Thomas Brumeau, at the signe of the Olyue, Anno Domini. M.D.LXXXII. [1582]), by de Granada Luis and Richard Hopkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The practice of meditating with profit The misteries of our Lord, the Blessed Vergin & saints. Gathered out of diuers good authors, and published by the very Reuerend Master Iohn Alberto Buronzo, chanon of the cathedral church of Verselles. Reuiued and augmented by the same author, & translated into English by a Father of the Societie of Iesus. (Imprinted at Mackline [i.e. Mechlin] : By Henrie Ieay, 1613), by Nicolas Berzetti and Thomas Talbot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The practise of Christian workes. Written in Spanish by the R. Father Francis Borgia, sometymes Duke of Gandia, and the third generall of the Society of Iesus. Togeather with a short rule, how to live well. Englished by a father of the same society. VVhereunto are adioyned certaine pious meditations vpon the beades: translated also out of the Spanish ([London] : Permissu superiorum, M.DC.XX. [1620]), by Francisco de Borja, Thomas Everard, and Joseph Cresswell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage; The Sparkling Stone; The Book of Supreme Truth, by Jan van Ruusbroec and Evelyn Underhill, trans. by C. A. Wynschenck
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  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Living Flame of Love, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (HTML in Austria)
• A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ (London: T. Baker, 1919), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman, trans. by David Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ (with English modernized), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman and W. Harry Plantinga, trans. by David Lewis (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Ascent of Mount Carmel, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Dark Night of the Soul (London: John M. Watkins, 1905), by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by Gabriela Cunninghame Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dark Night of the Soul, by Saint John of the Cross, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Dark Night of the Soul (London: T. Baker, 1908), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman, trans. by David Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dark Night of the Soul (4th edition, revised; London: T. Baker, 1916), by Saint John of the Cross, ed. by Benedict Zimmerman, contrib. by P. Gerardo de San Juan de la Cruz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pasion de Cristo (J.T. Lucas, 1757), by Juana de la Encarnacion, Joseph Molero, and Luis Ignacio Ceballos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vida de la venerable madre sor Beatriz Ana Ruiz, mantelata professa de la orden de N.G.P.S. Augustin : y doctrinas, o mistica simbolico-practica, que le revelò el Señor, como farol preciso en estos tiempos ... (Oficina de P. Garcia, 1744), by Tomás Pérez (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)
• The complete works of Saint John of the Cross, of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), by Saint John of the Cross and David Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete works of Saint John of the Cross of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), by Saint John of the Cross and David Lewis (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)
• Breve resumo da mystica theologia para instrucção dos directores (Officina de Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1789), by Francisco da Conceiçào (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; US access only)
• On Union with God, contrib. by Magnus Albertus (Gutenberg ebook)

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