CONTENTS |
Dedicatory Prayer |
About This Book
- Dedication |
Translator's Introduction |
Preface |
Book I. Containing A Preparation For The
Whole Treatise. |
1. |
That for the Beauty of Human Nature God has
Given the Government of All the Faculties of the Soul to the
Will |
2. |
How the will variously governs the powers of
the soul. |
3. |
How the will governs the sensual appetite. |
4. |
That love rules over all the affections, and
passions, and even governs the will, although the will has
also a dominion over it. |
5. |
Of the Affections of the Will. |
6. |
How the Love of God Has Dominion
Over Other Loves. |
7. |
Description of Love in General. |
8. |
What Kind of Affinity (Convenance) It Is Which
Excites Love. |
9. |
That Love Tends to Union. |
10. |
That the Union to Which Love Aspires is
Spiritual. |
11. |
That There Are Two Portions In The Soul, And
How. |
12. |
That in These Two Portions of the Soul There
Are Four Different Degrees of Reason. |
13. |
On The Difference Of Loves. |
14. |
That Charity May Be Named Love. |
15. |
Of The Affinity There Is Between God And Man. |
16. |
That We Have A Natural Inclination To Love God
Above All Things. |
17. |
That We Have Not Naturally The Power To Love
God Above All Things. |
18. |
That The Natural Inclination Which We Have To
Love God Is Not Useless. |
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Book II. The History Of The Generation And
Heavenly Birth Of Divine Love. |
1. |
That The Divine Perfections Are Only A Single
But Infinite Perfection. |
2. |
That In God There Is But One Only Act, Which
Is His Own Divinity. |
3. |
Of The Divine Providence In General. |
4. |
Of The Supernatural Providence Which God Uses
Towards Reasonable Creatures. |
5. |
That Heavenly Providence Has Provided Men With
A Most Abundant Redemption. |
6. |
Of Certain Special Favours Exercised By The
Divine Providence In The Redemption Of Man. |
7. |
How Admirable The Divine Providence Is In The
Diversity Of Graces Given To Men. |
8. |
How Much God Desires We Should Love Him. |
9. |
How The Eternal Love Of God
Prevents Our Hearts With His Inspirations In Order That We May
Love Him. |
10. |
How We Oftentimes Repulse The Inspiration And
Refuse To Love God. |
11. |
That It Is No Fault Of The Divine Goodness If
We Have Not A Most Excellent Love. |
12. |
That Divine Inspirations Leave Us In Full
Liberty To Follow Or Repulse Them |
13. |
Of The First Sentiments Of Love Which Divine
Inspirations Cause In The Soul Before She Has Faith. |
14. |
Of The Sentiment Of Divine Love Which Is Had
By Faith. |
15. |
Of The Great Sentiment Of Love Which We
Receive By Holy Hope. |
16. |
How Love Is Practised In Hope. |
17. |
That The Love Which Is In Hope Is Very Good,
Though Imperfect. |
18. |
That Love Is Exercised In Penitence, And
First, That There Are Divers Sorts Of Penitence. |
19. |
That Penitence Without Love Is Imperfect. |
20. |
How The Mingling Of Love And Sorrow Takes
Place In Contrition. |
21. |
How Our Saviour's Loving Attractions
Assist And Accompany Us To Faith And Charity. |
22. |
A Short Description Of Charity. |
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Book III. Of The Progress And Perfection Of Love. |
1. |
That Holy Love May Be Augmented Still More And More In
Every One Of Us. |
2. |
How Easy Our Saviour Has Made The Increase Of Love. |
3. |
How A Soul In Charity Makes Progress In It. |
4. |
Of Holy Perseverance In Sacred Love. |
5. |
That The Happiness Of Dying In Heavenly Charity Is A
Special Gift Of God. |
6. |
That We Cannot Attain To Perfect Union With God In
This Mortal Life. |
7. |
That The Charity Of Saints In This Mortal Life
Equals, Yea Sometimes Surpasses, That Of The Blessed. |
8. |
Of The Incomparable Love Which The Mother Of God,
Our Blessed Lady, Had. |
9. |
A Preparation For The Discourse On The Union Of The
Blessed With God. |
10. |
That The Preceding Desire Will Much Increase The Union
Of The Blessed With God. |
11. |
Of The Union Of The Blessed Spirits With God, In The
Vision Of The Divinity. |
12. |
Of The Eternal Union Of The Blessed Spirits With God,
In The Vision Of The Eternal Birth Of The Son Of God. |
13. |
Of The Union Of The Blessed With God In The Vision
Of The Production Of The Holy Ghost. |
14. |
That The Holy Light Of Glory Will Serve For The Union
Of The Blessed Spirits With God. |
15. |
That There Shall Be Different Degrees Of The Union Of
The Blessed With God. |
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Book IV. Of The Decay And Ruin Of Charity. |
1. |
That As Long As We Are In This Mortal Life We May Lose
The Love Of God. |
2. |
How The Soul Grows Cold In Holy Love. |
3. |
How We Forsake Divine Love For That Of Creatures. |
4. |
That Heavenly Love Is Lost In A Moment. |
5. |
That The Sole Cause Of The Decay And Cooling
Of Charity Is In The Creature's Will. |
6. |
That We Ought To Acknowledge All The Love We Bear To
God To Be From God. |
7. |
That We Must Avoid All Curiosity, And Humbly
Acquiesce In God's Most Wise Providence. |
8. |
An Exhortation To The Amorous Submission Which We
Owe To The Decrees Of Divine Providence. |
9. |
Of A Certain Remainder Of Love That Oftentimes Rests
In The Soul That Has Lost Holy Charity. |
10. |
How Dangerous This Imperfect Love Is. |
11. |
A Means To Discern This Imperfect Love. |
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Book V. Of The Two Principal Exercises Of Holy Love Which Consist
In Complacency And Benevolence. |
1. |
Of The Sacred Complacency Of Love; And First Of What It
Consists. |
2. |
How By Holy Complacency We Are Made As Little Infants
At Our Saviour's Breasts. |
3. |
That Holy Complacency Gives Our Heart To God, And
Makes Us Feel A Perpetual Desire In Fruition. |
4. |
Of The Loving Condolence By Which The Complacency Of
Love Is Still Better Declared. |
5. |
Of The Condolence And Complacency Of Love In The
Passion Of Our Lord. |
6. |
Of The Love Of Benevolence Which We Exercise Towards
Our Saviour By Way Of Desire. |
7. |
How The Desire To Exalt And Magnify God Separates Us
From Inferior Pleasures, And Makes Us Attentive To The Divine
Perfections. |
8. |
How Holy Benevolence Produces The Praise Of The
Divine Well-Beloved. |
9. |
How Benevolence Makes Us Call All Creatures To The
Praise Of God. |
10. |
How The Desire To Praise God Makes Us Aspire To Heaven. |
11. |
How We Practise The Love Of Benevolence In The Praises
Which Our Saviour And His Mother Give To God. |
12. |
Of The Sovereign Praise Which God Gives Unto Himself,
And How We Exercise Benevolence In It. |
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Book VI. Of The Exercises Of Holy Love In Prayer. |
1. |
A Description Of Mystical Theology, Which Is No Other
Thing Than Prayer. |
2. |
Of Meditation - The First Degree Of Prayer Or Mystical
Theology. |
3. |
A Description Of Contemplation, And Of The First
Difference That There Is Between It And Meditation. |
4. |
That Love In This Life Takes Its Origin But Not Its
Excellence From The Knowledge Of God. |
5. |
The Second Difference Between Meditation And
Contemplation. |
6. |
That Contemplation Is Made Without Labour, Which Is
The Third Difference Between It And Meditation. |
7. |
Of The Loving Recollection Of The Soul In
Contemplation. |
8. |
Of The Repose Of A Soul Recollected In Her
Well-Beloved. |
9. |
How This Sacred Repose Is Practised. |
10. |
Of Various Degrees Of This Repose, And How It Is To Be
Preserved. |
11. |
A Continuation Of The Discourse Touching The Various
Degrees Of Holy Quiet, And Of An Excellent Abnegation Of Self
Which Is Sometimes Practised Therein. |
12. |
Of The Outflowing (escoulement) Or Liquefaction Of
The Soul In God |
13. |
Of The Wound Of Love. |
14. |
Of Some Other Means By Which Holy Love Wounds The
Heart. |
15. |
Of The Affectionate Languishing Of The Heart Wounded
With Love. |
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