The book publishes for the first time a complete translation into Russian of the work of the German medieval mystic Heinrich Suso (c. 1295-1366) “The Book of Eternal Wisdom.” The translation accompanies M.L. Khorkov’s research on the place and significance of the work of Heinrich Suso in the history of medieval spiritual literature. Selected handwritten materials are published in the appendix for the first time. Heinrich Suso is a representative of the “Rhine mystics” of the 14th century, his teacher was Master Johann Eckhart (Meister Eckhart). Contents: Mikhail Khorkov. Contemplation of the Passion of Christ and Philosophia spiritualis in the writings of Heinrich SusoPreface. How and why one should read and study Heinrich Suso 71. The place and significance of Heinrich Suso in German medieval mysticism 112. The origins and sources of Heinrich Suso's philosophia spiritualis 18a. Philosophy spiritualis and church tradition 18b. Ipsa philosophia Christus 21c. Messages from an. Paul and the philosophia spiritualis of Heinrich Suso 24d. Henry Suso and Bernard of Clairvaux 32e. Henry Suso and Bonaventure 433. “The Book of Eternal Wisdom” as the central work of Henry Suso 604. Henry Suso and Western European university culture of the mid-XIV - early XV centuries 109 Henry Suso THE BOOK OF ETERNAL WISDOM Prologue 133 Part I Chapter 1. How some people are guided by God without knowing it 137 Chapter 2. What represented the path to crucifixion on the Cross 140Chapter 3. What the Savior endured on the Cross according to His outer humanity 144Chapter 4. How truly full of fidelity His Passion was 147Chapter 5. How the soul under the Cross rushed to heartfelt contrition and good repentance 148Chapter 6. How much love for the world is deceptive and how kind God is 153Chapter 7. How kind God is 160Chapter 8. An explanation of the three relationships that connect the lover in the most incomprehensible way with God. First: How He appears so stern and at the same time can be so full of love 166Chapter 9. Second: Why He often arbitrarily subjects His friends to deprivation, and how His true presence is perceived 167Chapter 10. Third: Why God allows, so that His friends in this life would feel bad 172Chapter 11. About the eternal torment of hell 174Chapter 12. About the immeasurable joy of the Kingdom of Heaven 176Chapter 13. About the immeasurable dignity of earthly suffering 183Chapter 14. About the inexpressible goodness of contemplating the Passion of the Lord 189Chapter 15. About the conversation filled with love, which the soul led with God under the Cross, turning again to the Passion His 193Chapter 16. About the venerable glorification of the most pure Queen of Heaven 196Chapter 17. About the unspeakable heartache of the Mother of God 203Chapter 18. About the internal suffering of the Savior when He hung on the Cross 207Chapter 19. About the removal from the Cross 209Chapter 20. About the farewell to the Tomb filled with suffering 212Part IIChapter 21. How one should learn to die and what unprepared death is like 213Chapter 22. How one should lead an inner life 221Chapter 23. How one should accept God in the fullness of love 223Chapter 24. How one should glorify God immeasurably at every hour 234Part III, presenting a hundred contemplations and prayers in a few words indicating how these contemplations and prayers should be said reverently every day 245 Appendix Examples of reception of the works of Henry Suso in liturgical texts and prayer books XIV-XV centuries 257Abbreviations 288Bibliography 290