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Index
Introduction
First Book
Prologue
Chapter 1. Of The Active Life
Chapter 2. Showing How We Shall Consider The Coming Of Christ In Three Ways
Chapter 3. Of Humility
Chapter 4. Of Charity
Chapter 5. Of Patient Endurance
Chapter 6. Of The Second Coming Of Christ
Chapter 7. Of The Blessed Sacraments
Chapter 8. Of The Third Coming Of Christ
Chapter 9. Showing What Christ Will Do In The Day Of Doom
Chapter 10. Of The Five Kinds Of Men Who Shall Appear At The Judgment
Chapter 11. Of A Spiritual Going Out With All Virtues
Chapter 12. How Humility Is The Foundation Of All Other Virtues
Chapter 13. Of Obedience
Chapter 14. Of The Renunciation Of Self Will
Chapter 15. Of Patience
Chapter 16. Of Meekness
Chapter 17. Of Kindliness
Chapter 18. Of Compassion
Chapter 19. Of Generosity
Chapter 20. Of Zeal And Diligence
Chapter 21. Of Temperance And Sobriety
Chapter 22. Of Purity
Chapter 23. Of Three Enemies To Be Overcome By Righteousness
Chapter 24. Of The Kingdom Of The Soul
Chapter 25. Of A Spiritual Meeting Of God And Ourselves
Chapter 26. Of The Desire To Know The Bridegroom In His Nature
Second Book
Prologue
Chapter 1. How We Achieve Supernatural Sight In Our Inward Workings
Chapter 2. Of A Three-Fold Unity Which Is In Us By Nature
Chapter 3. Of The Inflow Of The Grace Of God Into Our Spirit
Chapter 4. Showing How We Should Found Our Inward Life On A Freedom From Images
Chapter 5. Of A Three-Fold Coming Of Our Lord In The Inward Man
Chapter 6. Of The Second Coming Of Our Lord In The Inward Man
Chapter 7. Of The Third Coming Of Our Lord
Chapter 8. How The First Coming Has Four Degrees
Chapter 9. Of Unity Of Heart
Chapter 10. Of Inwardness
Chapter 11. Of Sensible Love
Chapter 12. Of Devotion
Chapter 13. Of Gratitude
Chapter 14. Of Two Griefs Which Arise From Inward Gratitude
Chapter 15. A Similitude How We Should Perform The First Degree Of Our Inward Exercise
Chapter 16. Another Similitude Concerning The Same Exercise
Chapter 17. Of The Second Degree Of Our Inward Exercise, Which Increases Inwardness By Humility
Chapter 18. Of The Pure Delight Of The Heart And The Sensible Powers
Chapter 19. Of Spiritual Inebriation
Chapter 20. What May Hinder A Man In This Inebriation
Chapter 21. A Similitude How A Man Should Act And Bear Himself In This Case
Chapter 22. Of The Third Degree Of The Spiritual Coming Of Christ
Chapter 23. Of The Pain And Restlessness Of Love
Chapter 24. Of Ecstacies And Divine Revelations
Chapter 25. An Example Showing How One Is Hindered In This Exercise
Chapter 26. Another Example
Chapter 27. A Parable Of The Ant
Chapter 28. Of The Fourth Degree Of The Coming Of Christ
Chapter 29. Showing What The Forsaken Man Should Do
Chapter 30. A Parable: How One May Be Hindered In This Fourth Degree
Chapter 31. Of Another Hindrance
Chapter 32. Of Four Kinds Of Fever Wherewith A Man May Be Tormented
Chapter 33. Showing How These Four Degrees In Their Perfection Are Found In Christ
Chapter 34. Showing How A Man Should Live If He Would Be Enlightened
Chapter 35. Of The Second Coming Of Christ, Or, The Fountain With Three Rills
Chapter 36. The First Rill Adorns The Memory*
Chapter 37. The Second Rill Enlightens The Understanding
Chapter 38. The Third Rill Establishes The Will To Every Perfection
Chapter 39. Showing How The Established Man Shall Go Out In Four Ways
Chapter 40. He Shall Go Out Towards God And Towards All Saints
Chapter 41. He Shall Go Out Towards All Sinners
Chapter 42. He Shall Go Out Towards His Friends In Purgatory
Chapter 43. He Shall Go Out Towards Himself And Towards All Good Men
Chapter 44. Showing How We May Recognise Those Men Who Fail In Charity To All
Chapter 45. How Christ Was, Is, And Ever Will Be The Lover Of All
Chapter 46. Reproving All Those Who Live On Spiritual Goods In An Inordinate Manner
Chapter 47. Showing How Christ Has Given Himself To All In Common In The Sacrament Of The Altar
Chapter 48. Of The Unity Of The Divine Nature In The Trinity Of The Persons
Chapter 49. Showing How God Possesses And Moves The Soul Both In A Natural And A Supernatural Way
Chapter 50. Showing How A Man Should Be Adorned If He Is To Receive The Most Inward Exercise
Chapter 51. Of The Third Coming Of Christ
Chapter 52. Showing How The Spirit Goes Out Through The Divine Stirring
Chapter 53. Of An Eternal Hunger For God
Chapter 54. Of A Loving Strife Between The Spirit Of God And Our Spirit
Chapter 55. Of The Fruitful Works Of The Spirit, The Which Are Eternal
Chapter 56. Showing The Way In Which We Shall Meet God In A Ghostly Manner Both With And Without Means*
Chapter 57. Of The Essential Meeting With God Without Means In The Nakedness Of Our Nature
Chapter 58. Showing How One Is Like Unto God Through Grace And Unlike Unto God Through Mortal Sin
Chapter 59. Showing How One Possesses God In Union And Rest, Above All Likeness Through Grace
Chapter 60. Showing How We Have Need Of The Grace Of God, Which Makes Us Like Unto God And Leads Us To God Without Means
Chapter 61. Of How God And Our Spirit Visit Each Other In The Unity And In The Likeness
Chapter 62. Showing How We Should Go Out To Meet God
Chapter 63. Of The Ordering Of All The Virtues Through The Seven Gifts Of The Holy Ghost
Chapter 64. Of The Highest Degree Of The Most Interior Life
Chapter 65. Of Three Kinds Of Most Inward Practices
Chapter 66. Showing How Some Men Live Contrary To These Exercises
Chapter 67. Of Another Kind Of Perverted Men
Third Book
Chapter 1. Showing The Three Ways By Which One Enters Into The God-Seeing Life
Chapter 2. How The Eternal Birth Of God Is Renewed Without Interruption In The Nobility Of The Spirit
Chapter 3. How Our Spirit Is Called To Go Out In Contemplation And Fruition
Chapter 4. Of A Divine Meeting Which Takes Place In The Hiddenness Of Our Spirit
The Sparkling Stone
Prologue
Chapter 1. Through Three Things A Man Becomes Good
Chapter 2. Through Three Things A Man Becomes Inward
Chapter 3. Through Three Things A Man Becomes God-Seeing
Chapter 4. Of The Sparkling Stone, And Of The New Name Written In The Book Of The Secrets Of God
Chapter 5. Of The Works Which God Works In All In Common And Of Five Kinds Of Sinners
Chapter 6. Of The Difference Between The Hirelings And The Faithful Servants Of God
Chapter 7. Of The Difference Between The Faithful Servants And The Secret Friends Of God
Chapter 8. Of The Difference Between The Secret Friends And The Hidden Sons Of God
Chapter 9. How We May Become Hidden Sons Of God, And Attain To The God-Seeing Life
Chapter 10. How We, Though One With God, Must Eternally Remain Other Than God
Chapter 11. Of The Great Difference Between The Brightness Of The Saints And The Highest Brightness To Which We Can Attain In This Life
Chapter 12. Of The Transfiguration Of Christ On Mount Thabor
Chapter 13. How We Ought To Have Fruition Of God
Chapter 14. Of That Common Life Which Comes From The Contemplation And Fruition Of God
The Book Of Supreme Truth
Prologue
Chapter 1. Wherefore This Book Was Written
Chapter 2. A Short Repetition Of All The Highest Teachings Written By The Author
Chapter 3. Of The Union Through Means
Chapter 4. Of The Men Who Practise A False Vacancy
Chapter 5. Of The Union Without Means
Chapter 6. Of Heavenly Weal And Hellish Woe
Chapter 7. Showing Wherefore All Good Men Do Not Attain To The Unmediated Union With God
Chapter 8. Showing How The Inward Man Should Exercise Himself, That He May Be United With God Without Means
Chapter 9. Of The Inward Working Of God's Grace
Chapter 10. Of The Mutual Contentment Of The Divine Persons, And The Mutual Contentment Between God And Good Men
Chapter 11. How Good Men In Their Contemplation Have The Love Of God Before Them, And How They Are Lifted Up Into God
Chapter 12. Of The Highest Union, Without Difference Or Distinction
Chapter 13. Of The Threefold Prayer Of Christ, That We Might Be One With God
Chapter 14. Here The Author Declares That He Submits All That He Has Written To The Judgment Of Holy Church
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