An excerpt from the manuscript Itinerary of Perfection. The search for the union of the soul with God through prayer
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The history of the spirituality in the Society of Jesus goes on enriching itself along the times, thanks to the numerous studies that are being carried out. However, one of its authors, Fr. Antonio Cordeses, still has some of his works without being published in Castilian, as it is the case of the Itinerario de la perfección, of which there are some editions of that time in Italian. In the present work we are bringing, with its transcription, a fragment of the said work, the one that corresponds to the seventh and last stage, and a fragment about the affective prayer. This text allows us to go on knowing this author, who was censored in his epoch, and to know at first hand his thought about prayer and the way of trying to unite oneself with God by the means of prayer.
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