Download or read book The Directorium Asceticum, Vol. 1 of 4 written by John Baptist Scaramelli and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Directorium Asceticum, Vol. 1 of 4: Or, Guide to the Spiritual Life John Baptist Scaramelli was born at Rome in the year 1688. Having entered the Society of Jesus, he was employed for more than thirty years in the apostolic ministry, and was everywhere distinguished for his great zeal, and for the profound knowledge he displayed of the ways of the interior life. He died at Macerata in 1752. The works of Father Scaramelli on spiritual subjects are widely known, and maintain the reputation which their author enjoyed during his life. In particular, his "Direttorio Ascetico" has been more than once reprinted in Italian within the last few years, and has been translated into French, German, and Spanish. The present is the first English version that has been published of this celebrated work. The "Guide to the Spiritual Life," as it is called in this edition, although more immediately addressed to Directors of souls, may be used with advantage by all Christians who aspire to perfection. The author himself makes this remark in his Preface or Introduction. It is essentially a practical work, being intended to supply a defect which the author observed in the treatises of previous writers. 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.