Contents
1 Title Page
Prologue
Of the Active Life
Showing how we shall consider the Coming of Christ in Three Ways
Of Humility
Of Charity
Of the Second Coming of Christ
Of the Blessed Sacraments
Of the Five Kinds of Men who shall appear at the Judgment
Of a Spiritual Going Out with all Virtues
How Humility is the Foundation of all other Virtues
Of Obedience
Of Meekness
Of Generosity
Of Temperance and Sobriety
Of Three Enemies to be overcome by Righteousness
Of a Spiritual Meeting of God and Ourselves
Of the desire to know the Bridegroom in His Nature
Prologue
Of the Inflow of the Grace of God into our Spirit
Of the Second Coming of our Lord in the Inward Man
Of Unity of Heart
Of Gratitude
Of the Second Degree of our Inward Exercise, which increases Inwardness by Humility
A Similitude how a Man should act and bear himself in this case
An Example showing how one is hindered in this Exercise
Showing what the Forsaken Man should do
Showing how these Four Degrees in their Perfection are Found in Christ
The Second Rill enlightens the Understanding
He shall go out towards all Sinners
How Christ was, is, and ever will be the Lover of all
Showing how God possesses and moves the Soul both in a Natural and a Supernatural way
Of an Eternal Hunger for God
Of the Essential Meeting with God without Means in the Nakedness of our Nature
Of how God and our Spirit visit each other in the Unity and in the Likeness
Of the ordering of all the Virtues through the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost (cont)
Of the Highest Degree of the most Interior Life
Of Three Kinds of most Inward Practices
Of another kind of Perverted Men
Showing the Three Ways by which one enters into the God-Seeing Life
How the Eternal Birth of God is renewed without interruption in the nobility of the Spirit
How our Spirit is called to go out in Contemplation and Fruition
Of a Divine Meeting which takes place in the Hiddenness of our Spirit
Introduction
Introduction (cont)