Excerpt from 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 The pure Love of God (a doctrine which has been strongly asserted from the time of St. Katherine of Genoa and by others before her down to the present day, but not always Without causing considerable vexation to its supporters, as in the case of Fenelon): Union with God complete and absolute: Transformation into His likeness (which presupposes the extirpation of self-love, or the self principle, the root of all human misery, for if there were no self-will there would neither be Hell nor Devil, says our author), that we may love God as He loves us - that is, so far as is competent to finite natures: in other words, a complete new Birth and new Life, - that is the basis of our author's spiritual teaching. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.