Mystery says Adrien von Speyer
God's endless love

Adrien von Speyer was a Swiss physician and modern mystic who wrote over 60 books on theology, spirituality, mysticism, and stigmata. These books have been translated and are still widely loved around the world.
She is especially well known for her spiritual connection with the great 20th century theologian Balthasar, who inspired her greatly.
Speyer's spirituality and mystical experiences directly influenced Balthasar's understanding of theology.
So Balthasar published Speyer's books himself and held symposiums at the Vatican, making great efforts to spread the word about her spirituality.
『The World of Prayer』, which contains the spirituality based on these prayers of Speyer, has already been published, and the second book in the Speyer series, 『Love, Encounter with God』, has been published.

This book says that God always invites us, sent His Son for us, and when the Son returned to heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to us from the kingdom of eternal life, and that this is a grace given by God and a love bestowed upon us.
We can also converse with God through ‘prayer’ and participate in God’s infinity.

It is purely by His grace that man, despite his finiteness, is chosen to converse with the eternal God.
“This conversation is the source of prayer.” ‘Prayer’ is like air, essential to living things, to believers.
─ Translator's Note

Through faith we gain the opportunity to realize the Father's love hidden deep within things.
So, if we are to deeply contemplate becoming one with that love, we must not limit ourselves to the ways of God's love as understood in the Bible, but boldly broaden our perspective to savor God's amazing love throughout the entire creative activity unfolding before us.
--- p.29~30, from “Chapter 1 Creation”

The new state that the Son has initiated is the kingdom of God the Father, the kingdom where the Son dwells forever with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
That country is an infinite world, so it surpasses this world we live in.
The saint realizes infinity in such a way that it is revealed through acts that appear finite to the human eye, even though they are perfectly realized.
--- p.50~51, from “Chapter 2: Overcoming Human Finitude”

Immediately after the first man sinned and fell, God called him and spoke to him.
Despite the betrayal of man, the unbelievable thing is that the Eternal One does not lose touch with a mere mortal being.
This conversation is the source of prayer.
Anyone who prays has the opportunity to engage in a continuous dialogue with God, a chance for human finitude to share in God's infinity and hear a series of answers that stem from eternity.
--- p.52~53, from “Chapter 2: Overcoming Human Finitude”

Just as believers do not want their love to bear fruit only in the meaning they seek, they do not focus their love solely on those they love (their neighbors).
Rather, we entrust that love to God.
In doing so, he strives to make the love itself grow.
So that that love can take effect from heaven.
Such love can be said to be good love, just like prayer.
--- p.92, from “Chapter 4 Trinitarian Love Mediation”

Just as the Son came into the world not to reveal himself but to reveal the Father, so the Holy Spirit was sent not merely to magnify himself or to do things in his own name, but to make the Father known in a new way in the Son's name.
So [the Holy Spirit] wants the love that is alive in God to be alive in us as well.
--- p.126, from “Chapter 5: The Holy Spirit Who Guides the Way to the Father”

God's words, "It is very good!" regarding the created world, are the words spoken by the three divine persons of the Trinity to one another, and are also "It is very good!" in the sense that each person declares (expresses) something about the other (two) persons within their distinct differences.
--- p.179, from “Chapter 7 The Father and His Revelation in the Church”

God relates to the world not only through his words but also through his silence.
This silence, it is clear, does not simply mean a severance of ties with the world, but rather a restoration to a much broader relationship that recalls the eternal memory of the Father's being with the Son in the Holy Spirit from eternity before the creation of the world.
It is another sign that God always remains in love.
--- p.196~197, from “Chapter 8: Silence of the Father and the Holy Spirit”

God is free enough to allow us to reach something we contemplate (the object of contemplation) through a vision.
Furthermore, He can change blind faith into contemplative faith.
But this contemplation also belongs to his silence.
--- p.217, from “Chapter 8: The Silence of the Father and the Holy Spirit”

Because the church is an institution and a fence for unity, it must practice the same commandment of love for each and every person invited individually as it does for the church as a whole.
--- p.267, from “Chapter 10: The Invitation of the Trinity God”

He who tries to follow with a staggering body will be conscious of an invisible hand holding him up with each misstep, and will feel as if he had not stumbled at all, or as if God had not noticed at all, but that He was continually holding him up so that he would not stray or fall, as if He were concerned about his weakened 'yes' voice and was lifting him up to perfection.

--- p.287, from “Chapter 11: People’s Response”