The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
INTRODUCTION2. THE FIRST BOOK3. OF THE ACTIVE LIFE4. SHOWING HOW WE SHALL CONSIDER THE COMING OF CHRIST IN THREE WAYS5. OF HUMILITY6. OF CHARITY7. OF PATIENT ENDURANCE8. OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST9. OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENTS10. OF THE THIRD COMING OF CHRISTCHAPTER IX12. OF THE FIVE KINDS OF MEN WHO SHALL APPEAR AT THE JUDGMENT13. OF A SPIRITUAL GOING OUT WITH ALL VIRTUES14. HOW HUMILITY IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL OTHER VIRTUES15. OF OBEDIENCE16. OF THE RENUNCIATION OF SELF WILL17. OF PATIENCE18. OF MEEKNESS19. OF KINDLINESS20. OF COMPASSION21. OF GENEROSITY22. OF ZEAL AND DILIGENCE23. OF TEMPERANCE AND SOBRIETYCHAPTER XXII25. OF THREE ENEMIES TO BE OVERCOME BY RIGHTEOUSNESS26. OF THE KINGDOM OF THE SOUL27. OF A SPIRITUAL MEETING OF GOD AND OURSELVES28. OF THE DESIRE TO KNOW THE BRIDEGROOM IN HIS NATUREPROLOGUE30. HOW WE ACHIEVE SUPERNATURAL SIGHT IN OUR INWARD WORKINGS31. OF A THREE-FOLD UNITY WHICH IS IN US BY NATURE32. OF THE INFLOW OF THE GRACE OF GOD INTO OUR SPIRIT33. SHOWING HOW WE SHOULD FOUND OUR INWARD LIFE ON A FREEDOM FROM IMAGES34. OF A THREE-FOLD COMING OF OUR LORD IN THE INWARD MAN35. OF THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD IN THE INWARD MAN36. OF THE THIRD COMING OF OUR LORD37. HOW THE FIRST COMING HAS FOUR DEGREES38. OF UNITY OF HEART39. OF INWARDNESS40. OF SENSIBLE LOVE41. OF DEVOTION42. OF GRATITUDE43. OF TWO GRIEFS WHICH ARISE FROM INWARD GRATITUDE44. A SIMILITUDE HOW WE SHOULD PERFORM THE FIRST DEGREE OF OUR INWARD EXERCISE45. ANOTHER SIMILITUDE CONCERNING THE SAME EXERCISE46. OF THE SECOND DEGREE OF OUR INWARD EXERCISE, WHICH INCREASES INWARDNESS BY HUMILITY47. OF THE PURE DELIGHT OF THE HEART AND THE SENSIBLE POWERS48. OF SPIRITUAL INEBRIATION49. WHAT MAY HINDER A MAN IN THIS INEBRIATION50. A SIMILITUDE HOW A MAN SHOULD ACT AND BEAR HIMSELF IN THIS CASE51. OF THE THIRD DEGREE OF THE SPIRITUAL COMING OF CHRIST52. OF THE PAIN AND RESTLESSNESS OF LOVE53. OF ECSTACIES AND DIVINE REVELATIONS54. AN EXAMPLE SHOWING HOW ONE IS HINDERED IN THIS EXERCISE55. ANOTHER EXAMPLE56. A PARABLE OF THE ANT57. OF THE FOURTH DEGREE OF THE COMING OF CHRIST58. SHOWING WHAT THE FORSAKEN MAN SHOULD DO59. A PARABLE: HOW ONE MAY BE HINDERED IN THIS FOURTH DEGREE60. OF ANOTHER HINDRANCE61. OF FOUR KINDS OF FEVER WHEREWITH A MAN MAY BE TORMENTED62. SHOWING HOW THESE FOUR DEGREES IN THEIR PERFECTION ARE FOUND IN CHRIST63. SHOWING HOW A MAN SHOULD LIVE IF HE WOULD BE ENLIGHTENED64. OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, OR, THE FOUNTAIN WITH THREE RILLS65. THE FIRST RILL ADORNS THE MEMORY It should be remembered that for the medieval psychologist the term “memory” included all that we mean by “mind.”66. THE SECOND RILL ENLIGHTENS THE UNDERSTANDING67. THE THIRD RILL ESTABLISHES THE WILL TO EVERY PERFECTION68. SHOWING HOW THE ESTABLISHED MAN SHALL GO OUT IN FOUR WAYS69. HE SHALL GO OUT TOWARDS GOD AND TOWARDS ALL SAINTS70. HE SHALL GO OUT TOWARDS ALL SINNERS71. HE SHALL GO OUT TOWARDS HIS FRIENDS IN PURGATORY72. HE SHALL GO OUT TOWARDS HIMSELF AND TOWARDS ALL GOOD MEN73. SHOWING HOW WE MAY RECOGNISE THOSE MEN WHO FAIL IN CHARITY TO ALL74. HOW CHRIST WAS, IS, AND EVER WILL BE THE LOVER OF ALL75. REPROVING ALL THOSE WHO LIVE ON SPIRITUAL GOODS IN AN INORDINATE MANNER76. SHOWING HOW CHRIST HAS GIVEN HIMSELF TO ALL IN COMMON IN THE SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR77. OF THE UNITY OF THE DIVINE NATURE IN THE TRINITY OF THE PERSONS78. SHOWING HOW GOD POSSESSES AND MOVES THE SOUL BOTH IN A NATURAL AND A SUPERNATURAL WAY79. SHOWING HOW A MAN SHOULD BE ADORNED IF HE IS TO RECEIVE THE MOST INWARD EXERCISE80. OF THE THIRD COMING OF CHRIST81. SHOWING HOW THE SPIRIT GOES OUT THROUGH THE DIVINE STIRRING82. OF AN ETERNAL HUNGER FOR GOD83. OF A LOVING STRIFE BETWEEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND OUR SPIRIT84. OF THE FRUITFUL WORKS OF THE SPIRIT, THE WHICH ARE ETERNAL85. SHOWING THE WAY IN WHICH WE SHALL MEET GOD IN A GHOSTLY MANNER BOTH WITH AND WITHOUT MEANS “Middel en sonder middel”: i.e. mediated, through gifts, forms, symbols and conceptual images; and unmediated, being given as a direct intuitive experience to the soul in the unity of the spirit.86. OF THE ESSENTIAL MEETING WITH GOD WITHOUT MEANS IN THE NAKEDNESS OF OUR NATURE87. SHOWING HOW ONE IS LIKE UNTO GOD THROUGH GRACE AND UNLIKE UNTO GOD THROUGH MORTAL SIN88. SHOWING HOW ONE POSSESSES GOD IN UNION AND REST, ABOVE ALL LIKENESS THROUGH GRACE89. SHOWING HOW WE HAVE NEED OF THE GRACE OF GOD, WHICH MAKES US LIKE UNTO GOD AND LEADS US TO GOD WITHOUT MEANS90. OF HOW GOD AND OUR SPIRIT VISIT EACH OTHER IN THE UNITY AND IN THE LIKENESS91. SHOWING HOW WE SHOULD GO OUT TO MEET GOD92. OF THE ORDERING OF ALL THE VIRTUES THROUGH THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST93. OF THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF THE MOST INTERIOR LIFE94. OF THREE KINDS OF MOST INWARD PRACTICES95. SHOWING HOW SOME MEN LIVE CONTRARY TO THESE EXERCISES96. OF ANOTHER KIND OF PERVERTED MEN97. SHOWING THE THREE WAYS BY WHICH ONE ENTERS INTO THE GOD-SEEING LIFE98. HOW THE ETERNAL BIRTH OF GOD IS RENEWED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION IN THE NOBILITY OF THE SPIRIT99. HOW OUR SPIRIT IS CALLED TO GO OUT IN CONTEMPLATION AND FRUITION100. OF A DIVINE MEETING WHICH TAKES PLACE IN THE HIDDENNESS OF OUR SPIRITPROLOGUE102. THROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES GOOD103. THROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES INWARD104. THROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES GOD-SEEING105. OF THE SPARKLING STONE, AND OF THE NEW NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE SECRETS OF GOD106. OF THE WORKS WHICH GOD WORKS IN ALL IN COMMON AND OF FIVE KINDS OF SINNERS107. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HIRELINGS AND THE FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF GOD108. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FAITHFUL SERVANTS AND THE SECRET FRIENDS OF GOD109. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SECRET FRIENDS AND THE HIDDEN SONS OF GOD110. HOW WE MAY BECOME HIDDEN SONS OF GOD, AND ATTAIN TO THE GOD-SEEING LIFE111. HOW WE, THOUGH ONE WITH GOD, MUST ETERNALLY REMAIN OTHER THAN GOD112. OF THE GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SAINTS AND THE HIGHEST BRIGHTNESS TO WHICH WE CAN ATTAIN IN THIS LIFE113. OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST ON MOUNT THABOR114. HOW WE OUGHT TO HAVE FRUITION OF GOD115. OF THAT COMMON LIFE WHICH COMES FROM THE CONTEMPLATION AND FRUITION OF GODPROLOGUE117. WHEREFORE THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN118. A SHORT REPETITION OF ALL THE HIGHEST TEACHINGS WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR119. OF THE UNION THROUGH MEANS120. OF THE MEN WHO PRACTISE A FALSE VACANCY121. OF THE UNION WITHOUT MEANS122. OF HEAVENLY WEAL AND HELLISH WOE123. SHOWING WHEREFORE ALL GOOD MEN DO NOT ATTAIN TO THE UNMEDIATED UNION WITH GOD124. SHOWING HOW THE INWARD MAN SHOULD EXERCISE HIMSELF, THAT HE MAY BE UNITED WITH GOD WITHOUT MEANS125. OF THE INWARD WORKING OF GOD’S GRACE126. OF THE MUTUAL CONTENTMENT OF THE DIVINE PERSONS, AND THE MUTUAL CONTENTMENT BETWEEN GOD AND GOOD MEN127. HOW GOOD MEN IN THEIR CONTEMPLATION HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD BEFORE THEM, AND HOW THEY ARE LIFTED UP INTO GOD128. OF THE HIGHEST UNION, WITHOUT DIFFERENCE OR DISTINCTION129. OF THE THREEFOLD PRAYER OF CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE ONE WITH GOD130. HERE THE AUTHOR DECLARES THAT HE SUBMITS ALL THAT HE HAS WRITTEN TO THE JUDGMENT OF HOLY CHURCH