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Excerpt from The Mystical Flora of St. Francis De Sales: Or, the Christian Life Under the Emblem of Plants
In the mystical flora, which is now for the first time offered in an English dress, a loving hand has collected the choicest of St. Francis's spiritual comparisons drawn from plants and ¿owers. Nor have the Specimens been gathered at random. They have been so arranged that they form a perfect treatise on the devout life, from its first prin ciples to its consummation, according to the plan laid down by the Saint himself in his ascetic writings. It is a book that will bring pleasure to the lover of nature, as well as profit to the seeker after grace. It ex hibits in one of the fairest pages of the Book of Creation, a commentary on one of the most di¿icult in the Book of Scripture; and whosoever, under the guidance of the Saint, will earnestly study its teaching, cannot fail to learn, with Philothea, how one may draw good thoughts and holy aspirations from everything that presents itself in all the variety of this mortal life (dewut Zz'je, part 11. Ch.
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