The Spiritual Doctrine
The teaching of Father Louis Lallemant (1588-1635), instructor of the Jesuit tertians and of a whole generation of spiritual writers (Surin, Rigoleuc, Saint-Jure), who wrote nothing himself: his disciples noted down his lessons, and Father Pierre Champion arranged them in seven principles (the consideration of the end, the idea of perfection, purity of heart, docility to the Holy Spirit, recollection and the interior life, union with our Lord, the order and steps of the spiritual life) and published them in 1694 with his Life of Father Lallemant. The French is the 1908 new edition (Lecoffre-Gabalda), with the Additions of thoughts gathered by Surin; the English is the 1855 translation edited by F. W. Faber, which follows the same divisions chapter for chapter.
Contents
Source: Champion's Avertissement and Vie du P. Lallemant, the seven principles with every section, chapter and article, and the Addition (pensées recueillies par le P. Surin, chapters I-X). Running heads, page numbers, § marks and line-end hyphens were stripped; the paragraph numbers (§) are dropped. The OCR was corrected with a French spelling dictionary and hand-made fixes for several hundred misreadings, so some OCR slips remain, mostly in Latin quotations and fused or split words. Article titles are kept as the first line of each article where the edition prints one. The table of contents and the Table des matières are not imported. · Chapters, articles and additions as in the French, same ids. The English OCR was cleaned of running heads and corrected only for the commonest misreadings, so more OCR slips remain than in the French. Faber's front matter is not imported.