CONTENTS (cont) |
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Book VII. Of The Union Of The Soul With Her God, Which Is
Perfected In Prayer. |
1. |
How Love Effects The Union Of The Soul With God In
Prayer. |
2. |
Of The Various Degrees Of The Holy Union Which Is Made
In Prayer. |
3. |
Of The Sovereign Degree Of Union By Suspension And
Ravishment. |
4. |
Of Rapture, And Of The First Species Of It. |
5. |
Of The Second Species Of Rapture. |
6. |
Of The Signs Of Good Rapture, And Of The Third Species
Of The Same. |
7. |
How Love Is The Life Of The Soul, And Continuation Of
The Discourse On The Ecstatic Life. |
8. |
An Admirable Exhortation Of S. Paul To The Ecstatic
And Superhuman Life. |
9. |
Of The Supreme Effect Of Affective Love, Which Is The
Death Of The Lovers; And First, Of Such As Died In Love. |
10. |
Of Those Who Died By And For Divine Love. |
11. |
How Some Of The Heavenly Lovers Died Also Of
Love. |
12. |
Marvellous History Of The Death Of A Gentleman Who
Died Of Love On Mount Olivet. |
13. |
That The Most Sacred Virgin Mother Of God Died Of
Love For Her Son. |
14. |
That The Glorious Virgin Died By An Extremely Sweet
And Tranquil Death. |
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Book VIII. Of The Love of Confomity, By Which We Unite Our Will To
The Will Of God, Signified Unto Us By His Commandments, Counsels
And Inspirations. |
1. |
Of The Love Of Conformity Proceeding From Sacred
Complacency. |
2. |
Of The Conformity Of Submission Which Proceeds From
The Love Of Benevolence. |
3. |
How We Are To Conform Ourselves To That Divine Will,
Which Is Called The Signified Will. |
4. |
Of The Conformity Of Our Will To The Will Which God
Has To Save Us. |
5. |
Of The Conformity Of Our Will To That Will Of God's
Which Is Signified To Us By His Commandments. |
6. |
Of The Conformity Of Our Will To That Will Of God
Which Is Signified Unto Us By His Counsels. |
7. |
That The Love Of God's Will Signified In The
Commandments Moves Us To The Love Of The Counsels. |
8. |
That The Contempt Of The Evangelical Counsels Is A
Great Sin. |
9. |
A Continuation Of The Preceding Discourse. How Every
One, While Bound To Love, Is Not Bound To Practise, All The
Evangelical Counsels, And Yet How Every One Should Practise What
He Is Able. |
10. |
How We Are To Conform Ourselves To God's Will Signified
Unto Us By Inspirations, And First, Of The Variety Of The Means By
Which God Inspires Us. |
11. |
Of The Union Of Our Will With God's In The
Inspirations Which Are Given For The Extraordinary Practice Of
Virtues; And Of Perseverance In One's Vocation, The First Mark Of
Inspiration. |
12. |
Of The Union Of Man's Will With God's In Those
Inspirations Which Are Contrary To Ordinary Laws; And Of Peace And Tranquillity Of Heart, Second Mark Of Inspiration. |
13. |
Third Mark Of Inspiration, Which Is Holy Obedience
To The Church And Superiors. |
14. |
A Short Method To Know God's Will. |
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Book IX. Of The Love Of Submission, Whereby Our Will Is United To
God's Good-Pleasure. |
1. |
Of The Union Of Our Will To That Divine Will Which Is
Called The Will Of Good-Pleasure. |
2. |
That The Union Of Our Will With The Good-Pleasure Of
God Takes Place Principally In Tribulations. |
3. |
Of The Union Of Our Will To The Divine Good-Pleasure
In Spiritual Afflictions, By Resignation. |
4. |
Of The Union Of Our Will To The Good-Pleasure Of God
By Indifference. |
5. |
That Holy Indifference Extends To All Things. |
6. |
Of The Practice Of Loving Indifference, In Things
Belonging To The Service Of God. |
7. |
Of The Indifference Which We Are To Have As To Our
Advancement In Virtues. |
8. |
How We Are To Unite Our Will With God's In The
Permission Of Sins. |
9. |
How The Purity Of Indifference Is To Be Practised In
The Actions Of Sacred Love. |
10. |
Means To Discover When We Change In The Matter Of This
Holy Love. |
11. |
Of The Perplexity Of A Heart Which Loves Without
Knowing Whether It Pleases The Beloved. |
12. |
How The Soul Amidst These Interior Anguishes Knows
Not The Love She Bears To God: And Of The Most Lovefull Death Of
The Will. |
13. |
How The Will Being Dead To Itself Lives Entirely In
God's Will. |
14. |
An Explanation Of What Has Been Said Touching The
Decease Of Our Will. |
15. |
Of The Most Excellent Exercise We Can Make In The
Interior And Exterior Troubles Of This Life, After Attaining The
Indifference And Death Of The Will. |
16. |
Of The Perfect Stripping Of The Soul Which Is United
To God's Will. |
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Book X. Of The Commandment Of Loving God Above All Things. |
1. |
Of The Sweetness Of The Commandment Which God Has Given
Us Of Loving Him Above All Things. |
2. |
That This Divine Commandment Of Love Tends To Heaven,
Yet Is Given To The Faithful In This World. |
3. |
How, While The Whole Heart Is Employed In Sacred
Love, Yet One May Love God In Various Ways, And Also Many Other
Things Together With Him. |
4. |
Of Two Degrees Of Perfection With Which This
Commandment May Be Kept In This Mortal Life. |
5. |
Of Two Other Degrees Of Greater Perfection, By Which We
May Love God Above All Things. |
6. |
That The Love Of God Above All Things Is Common To All
Lovers. |
7. |
Explanation Of The Preceding Chapter. |
8. |
A Memorable History To Make Clearly Understood In
What The Force And Excellence Of Holy Love Consist. |
9. |
A Confirmation Of What Has Been Said By A Noteworthy
Comparison. |
10. |
That We Are To Love The Divine Goodness Sovereignly
Above Ourselves. |
11. |
How Holy Charity Produces The Love Of Our Neighbour. |
12. |
How Love Produces Zeal. |
13. |
How God Is Jealous Of Us. |
14. |
Of The Zeal Or Jealousy Which We Have For Our Lord. |
15. |
Advice For The Direction Of Holy Zeal. |
16. |
That The Example Of Certain Saints Who Seem To Have
Exercised Their Zeal With Anger, Makes Nothing Against The
Doctrine Of The Preceding Chapter. |
17. |
How Our Lord Practised All The Most Excellent Acts
Of Love. |
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Book XI. Of The Sovereign Authority Which Sacred Love Holds Over
All The Virtues, Actions And Perfections Of The Soul. |
1. |
How Agreeable All Virtues Are To God. |
2. |
That Divine Love Makes The Virtues Immeasurably More
Agreeable To God Than They Are Of Their Own Nature. |
3. |
That There Are Some Virtues Which Divine Love Raises
To A Higher Degree Of Excellence Than Others. |
4. |
That Divine Love More Excellently Sanctifies The
Virtues When They Are Practised By Its Order And Commandment. |
5. |
How Love Spreads Its Excellence Over The Other Virtues,
Perfecting Their Particular Excellence. |
6. |
Of The Excellent Value Which Sacred Love Gives To The
Actions Which Issue From Itself And To Those Which Proceed From
The Other Virtues. |
7. |
That Perfect Virtues Are Never One Without The Other. |
8. |
How Charity Comprehends All The Virtues. |
9. |
That The Virtues Have Their Perfection From Divine
Love. |
10. |
A Digression Upon The Imperfection Of The Virtues Of
The Pagans. |
11. |
How Human Actions Are Without Worth When They Are Done
Without Divine Love. |
12. |
How Holy Love Returning Into The Soul, Brings Back To
Life All The Works Which Sin Had Destroyed. |
13. |
How We Are To Reduce All The
Exercise Of The Virtues, And All Our Actions To Holy Love. |
14. |
The Practice Of What Has Been Said In The Preceding
Chapter. |
15. |
How Charity Contains In It The Gifts Of The Holy
Ghost. |
16. |
Of The Loving Fear Of Spouses; A Continuation Of The
Same Subject. |
17. |
How Servile Fear Remains Together With Holy Love. |
18. |
How Love Makes Use Of Natural, Servile And
Mercenary Fear. |
19. |
How Sacred Love Contains The Twelve Fruits Of The
Holy Ghost, Together With The Eight Beatitudes Of The Gospel. |
20. |
How Divine Love Makes Use Of All The Passions And
Affections Of The Soul, And Reduces Them To Its Obedience. |
21. |
That Sadness Is Almost Always Useless, Yea Contrary
To The Service Of Holy Love. |
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Book XII. Containing Certain Counsels For The Progress Of The Soul
In Holy Love. |
1. |
That Our Progress In Holy Love Does Not Depend On Our
Natural Temperament. |
2. |
That We Are To Have A Continual Desire To Love. |
3. |
That To Have The Desire Of Sacred Love We Are To Cut
Off All Other Desires. |
4. |
That Our Lawful Occupations Do Not Hinder Us From Practising Divine Love. |
5. |
A Very Sweet Example On This Subject. |
6. |
That We Are To Employ In The Practice Of Divine Love
All The Occasions That Present Themselves. |
7. |
That We Must Take Pains To Do Our Actions Very
Perfectly. |
8. |
A General Means For Applying Our Works To God's
Service. |
9. |
Of Certain Other Means By Which We May Apply Our Works
More Particularly To The Love Of God. |
10. |
An Exhortation To The Sacrifice Which We Are To Make To
God Of Our Free-Will. |
11. |
The Motives We Have Of Holy Love. |
12. |
A Most Useful Method Of Employing These Motives. |
13. |
That Mount Calvary Is The Academy Of Love. |