Published posthumously in 1976, the present volume contains a series of aphoristic texts in which Adrienne von Speyr recorded insights (“lumina”) received during prayer. “Why publish them? Because we rarely hear today their native echo of the inmost mystery of Christianity. Because the paradox of ardent sobriety that they display bears the mark of authenticity. Perhaps simply in order to show that such things still exist” (from the Foreword by Hans Urs von Balthasar).