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The cross, then, is central to Christian mysticism. Thomas à Kempis assures us:
You cannot escape it, whithersoever you run. For wheresoever you go you carry yourself with you, and shall always find yourself. Turn upwards or turn downwards, turn inwards or turn outwards: everywhere, you shall find the cross.1
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Bibliographical Guide To Texts Without Comment
John Tauler, The Inner Way, p. 197.
St François de Sales, A Treatise of the Love of God, trans. Miles Car (Douay: Gerard Pinchon, 1630), p. 789.
St Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the Gospel of John, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, VII, p. 14.
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William Law, Works, IV, p. 101.
Jacob Boehme, Works, I, pp. 97–8.
St Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle, p. 52.
St Catherine of Siena, Dialogue, p. 215.
John Cassian, Conferences, p. 419.
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Grant, P. (1983). The Cross. In: Literature of Mysticism in Western Tradition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17151-4_5
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