Heinrich Suso
Heinrich Suso's autobiographical Life of the Servant and his treatise Büchlein der Wahrheit (Book of Truth). Suso (c. 1295–1366) was the most affectively mystical of the three Dominicans, and his Life is the first spiritual autobiography in German. The Book of Truth (Prologue + Chs I–IV) is a project translation from the Middle High German; see /about/translations/.
Source context· Greco-Christian stream · Greco-Latin cultural age
- Stream
- Greco-Christian
- Cultural age
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 1330 CE
- 100-front-matter
Front matter and editorial framing of Suso's collected works
2,718 words - 2Chapter L
Ascetic self-mortification and the soul's orientation toward suffering as spiritual discipline
526 words - 3Chapter II.
Ascetic self-mortification as the soul's preparatory path toward union with Eternal Wisdom
709 words - 4Chapter III.
Suso's early mystical encounter with Eternal Wisdom and the soul's initial turning toward divine union
528 words - 5Chapter IV.
Ascetic self-mortification and the soul's purgative suffering as path toward union with Eternal Wisdom
1,659 words - 6Chapter V.
Ascetic self-mortification and the soul's initial orientation toward divine union
688 words - 7Chapter VI.
Early Dominican mystical formation and the soul's orientation toward Eternal Wisdom
877 words - 8Chapter VII.
The soul's suffering and ascetic self-discipline as path toward union with divine Wisdom
705 words - 9Chapter VIII.
Suso's Chapter VIII — specific chapter theme not determinable from available corpus data
502 words - 10Chapter IX.
Suso's interior ascetic discipline and self-mortification as mystical path-practice
767 words - 11Chapter X.
Suffering and cross-bearing as the soul's path toward union with Eternal Wisdom
574 words - 12Chapter XI.
Affective union of the soul with Eternal Wisdom through contemplative self-surrender
671 words - 13Chapter XII.
Ascetic self-negation as path toward mystical union with Eternal Wisdom
582 words - 14Chapter XIII.
Ascetic discipline and self-mortification as preparation for mystical union with Eternal Wisdom
951 words - 15Chapter XIV.
Ascetic self-mortification and the soul's suffering as path toward divine union
327 words - 16Chapter XV.
Unspecified chapter content — no subtitle or thematic descriptor provided for Chapter XV
1,458 words - 17Chapter XVI.
Dialogue between the Servant and Eternal Wisdom on the bearing of suffering and the way of the cross
1,074 words - 18Chapter XVIIL
Soul's contemplative dialogue with Eternal Wisdom in the mode of loving devotion
1,588 words - 19Chapter XIX.
Ascetic self-mortification and the soul's conformity to Christ's suffering
664 words - 20Chapter XX.
Interior suffering and conformity to Christ's Passion as path of mystical purification
2,391 words - 21Chapter XXI.
Devotional contemplation of suffering and the soul's conformity to divine wisdom
830 words - 22Chapter XXII.
Patient endurance of suffering as path to union with Eternal Wisdom
2,837 words - 23Chapter XX III.
Unidentified chapter content within Suso's mystical writings (no title or content supplied for chapter 23)
615 words - 24Chapter XXIV.
Contemplative reception of heavenly consolation and the soul's foretaste of eternal blessedness
783 words - 25Chapter XXV.
Mystical suffering and ascetic discipline as path to union with Eternal Wisdom
1,829 words - 26Chapter XXVI.
Interior suffering and the mystical bearing of the cross as path to union with Eternal Wisdom
1,648 words - 27Chapter XXVLL
Soul's ascetic discipline and penitential self-surrender as preparation for union with Eternal Wisdom
1,654 words - 28Chapter XXVIII.
Ascetic conformity to Christ's suffering as path to union with Eternal Wisdom
1,235 words - 29Chapter XXIX.
Suffering endured in loving conformity to Christ's Passion as path of soul purification
615 words - 30Chapter XXX.
Unspecified chapter content of Suso's mystical corpus at position thirty of fifty-one
496 words - 31Chapter XXXI.
Mystical interiority and the soul's ascent within the Dominican devotional tradition
1,262 words - 32Chapter XXXII.
The soul's loving surrender to Eternal Wisdom through interior detachment and mystical discipleship
2,467 words - 33Chapter XXXIV.
Ascetic suffering and loving devotion to Eternal Wisdom as path of soul-purification
2,577 words - 34Chapter XXXVI.
Compassionate contemplation of Christ's Passion as affective path to union with Eternal Wisdom
1,236 words - 35Chapter XXXVII.
The soul's devout submission to suffering as path toward union with Eternal Wisdom
3,977 words - 36Chapter XXXIX.
Redemptive suffering and the soul's purification through ascetic endurance on the mystical path
1,282 words - 37Chapter XL.
Unspecified chapter content of Suso's mystical-devotional writings at position 40
6,192 words - 38Chapter XLII.
Unspecified chapter content within Suso's devotional-mystical corpus at position 38 of 51
1,214 words - 39Chapter XLIIL
Ascetic self-mortification and soul-purification as path to divine union
2,493 words - 40Chapter XLIV.
Ascetic self-mortification and mystical union with Eternal Wisdom as path of soul purification
1,444 words - 41Chapter XLVI.
Ascetic suffering and conformity to Christ's Passion as path to union with Eternal Wisdom
1,305 words - 42Chapter XL VII.
Suffering, ascetic discipline, and the soul's conformation to divine Wisdom in late-cycle devotional instruction
888 words - 43Chapter XLVIII.
The soul's perseverance in spiritual suffering as path to union with Eternal Wisdom
127 words - 44Chapter XLIX.
Contemplative surrender and the soul's union with Eternal Wisdom through suffering and renunciation
476 words - 45Chapter L.
Soul's surrender to Eternal Wisdom through suffering and contemplative conformity to the Passion
1,209 words - 46Chapter LI.
Consummation of the soul's contemplative ascent toward union with Eternal Wisdom
2,100 words - 47Chapter LIII.
Late-stage mystical exercises and contemplative devotion in Suso's spiritual itinerary
4,671 words - 48Chapter LV.
Soul's detachment from created things and interior preparation for mystical union with Eternal Wisdom
2,979 words - 49Chapter LVI.
Loving abandonment of the self in consummative union with eternal Wisdom
4,344 words - 50Prologue and Chapters I–IV (philosophical core) — Little Book of Eternal Wisdom — Prologue + chapters I-IV (philosophical core)
Opens Suso's most-circulated work — Das Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit. The philosophical-doctrinal core: the dialogue between the Servitor and Eternal Wisdom (Christ-Sophia). The classical Eckhartian themes received in the Suso register: tender, affective, more accommodating to ordinary spirituality.
6,569 words - 51Chapters V–VII: Christic Conformity, the Wild Man Dialogue, and the Comportment of the Detached — Eternal Wisdom chapters V-VII — the wild-man dialogue; Christic conformity
Continuation of Eternal Wisdom. The famous Wild Man dialogue (the figure of the Wild Man as the soul that has cast off ordinary social-religious convention); the chapter on Christic conformity (the soul made like Christ in His passion); the comportment of the disciple of Eternal Wisdom.
5,351 words
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