Addendum 8, a Sources hierarchy of sorts...
My apologies for always thinking of something else to add after thinking I was finished. I had mentioned quite early in Sources a little book, "Common Mystic Prayer", which had a wonderful bibliography of largely forgotten classic references, well past St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, and St. Francis De Sales where we also find his spiritual daughter St. Jane Francis De Chantal, Abbot John Chapman in his "Spiritual Letters", Father Grou's "Manual for Interior Souls", as well as Father De Caussade's "L'Abandon/Self Abandonment To Divine Providence", and no few others. Before anyone rushes off to buy any/all of these, I would wish to point out a simple fact, in my opinion, at the least. "The Cloud of Unknowing" and it's sequel, "The Book of Privy Counsel", is a stand-alone wonderful manual on the interior life. The later writings of St. John of the Cross appear to be a detailed exposition on "Th...