Excerpt from Ara Coeli: An Essay in Mystical TheologyHere are a few things which I should like to add in reference to reviews and notices of this book by the Press.First, I want to apologise for the large number of misprints which appeared in the earlier editions. I am very much ashamed of them, and hope that they have now been corrected.Secondly, some Roman Catholic papers, for whose friendly appreciation I am very grateful, note the omission of any reference to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. I can only plead that it is very difficult to recall, on reflection, the sum total of one's indebtedness, and I suppose that very often the authors to whom we owe most are least prominently in our minds, just because their ideas have soaked so deeply into us. I should like, then, to repair my neglect, and acknowledge gratefully the help which I have received from the Exercises, especially, I think, in the first two chapters of my book. But I must add, on the other hand, that the complicated scheme of meditation recom mended by him is the sort of method against which I venture to argue in Chapter VII.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.