The popular Christian Classics Ethereal Library is promoting mystic Madame Guyon. The CCEL has been used as a resource for many Christians. It is unfortunate that this promotion is taking place. On the CCEL website, it states (referring to Madame Guyon):
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) (April 13, 1648 – June 9, 1717) was a celebrated French mystical writer of the Quietist school. This little book was written for a few individuals who wanted to love God with their whole hearts, and as others wanted a copy, it was committed to the press. It quickly went into multiple printings. Since then this work has been widely distributed and very influential—to places as far as China, where Watchman Nee gave copies to new converts.
It was Guyon who said: “Here [the contemplative state] everything is God. God is everywhere and in all things.” The Christian History Institute said this of Guyon:
“Modern critics say that Jeanne-Marie used self-hypnosis to achieve her ‘spiritual’ states and trances and point out that she used ‘automatic writing’ which suggests spiritualist practice. They wonder that she had so little to say about Christ (in proportion to the total number of words she wrote).”
For more information about the mystical proclivities of Madame Guyon, please refer to our research site.
