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Guigo II, sometimes referred to as Guy, or by the moniker "the Angelic", was a Carthusian monk and the 9th prior of Grande Chartreuse monastery, from 1174-80. He died possibly in 1188〔The date cited by Bernard McGinn, ''The Growth of Mysticism'', (1994), p357〕 or 1193, and is distinct from both Guigo I, the 5th prior of the same monastery, and the late thirteenth-century Carthusian Guigo de Ponte.〔''A history of Christian spirituality: an analytical introduction'' by Urban Tigner Holmes 2002 ISBN 0-8192-1914-2 page 55〕 ==Works== His most famous book is most commonly known today as ''Scala Claustralium'' (''The Ladder of Monks''), though it has also been known as the ''Scala paradisi'' (''The Ladder of Paradise'') and the ''Epistola de vita contemplativa'' (''Letter on the Contemplative Life'', which is its subtitle). Drawing from Jacob's vision in Genesis 28.12 of angels ascending and descending a ladder to God, bringing human prayers to heaven and God's answers to earth, Guigo wrote an account to explain how the ladder was meant for those in the cloister, seeking the contemplative life. Guigo named the four steps of this "ladder" of Lectio Divina prayer, a practice which continues daily in contemporary Benedictine ritual meditation,〔 (First published in 2003 by the Canterbury Press Norwich ).〕 with the Latin terms ''lectio'', ''meditatio'', ''oratio'', and ''contemplatio''. In Guigo's four stages one first reads, which leads to think about (i.e. meditate on) the significance of the text; that process in turn leads the person to respond in prayer as the third stage. The fourth stage is when the prayer, in turn, points to the gift of quiet stillness in the presence of God, called contemplation.〔''Christian spirituality: themes from the tradition'' by Lawrence S. Cunningham, Keith J. Egan 1996 ISBN 0-8091-3660-0 page 38〕〔''The Oblate Life'' by Gervase Holdaway, 2008 ISBN 0-8146-3176-2 page 109〕 ''Scala Claustralium ''is considered the first description of methodical prayer in the western mystical tradition,〔''An Anthology of Christian mysticism'' by Harvey D. Egan 1991 ISBN 0-8146-6012-6 pages 207-208〕 and Guigo II is considered the first writer in the western tradition to consider stages of prayer as a ladder which leads to a closer mystic communion with God. The work was among the most popular of medieval spiritual works (in part because it commonly circulated under the name of the renowned Bernard of Clairvaux or even Augustine), with over one hundred manuscripts surviving. It was also translated into some vernacular languages, including into Middle English.〔Bernard McGinn, ''The Growth of Mysticism'', (1994), p357〕 It is still a basic guide for those who wish to practice ''lectio divina''. Guigo II also wrote twelve ''Meditations'', which were clearly less widely known as they survive in only a few manuscripts.〔Bernard McGinn, ''The Growth of Mysticism'', (1994), p357〕 From internal evidence, it appears they may have been written before the ''Scala Claustralium.''〔Colledge and Walsh, 'Introduction', SC 163: 25-6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guigo II」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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