What love is, and how it is truly and perfectly summed up in contemplation.Ģ5. God answers and provides for those who for love of him will not provide for themselves.Ģ4. Christ’s wonderful love for Mary, type of the converted sinner called to contemplation.Ģ3. The true exposition of this Gospel sentence ‘Mary hath chosen the best part’.Ģ2. The goodness of God Almighty who answers on behalf of those who will not leave loving him.Ģ1. The author’s excuse for teaching that all contemplatives should fully exonerate actives who speak or work against them.Ģ0. To this day actives complain of contemplatives, as Martha did of Mary. The true contemplative does not concern himself with the active life, nor with what is said or done to him, nor does he refute his detractors.ġ8. Through this work the converted sinner who is called to contemplation more quickly attains perfection, and God’s forgiveness of sin.ġ7. The confuting of those who claim that perfect humility comes through the awareness of one’s sin.ġ6. Sinful man can only achieve perfect humility by way of imperfect humility.ġ5. This work destroys sins, and produces virtue.ġ4. Each thought and impulse must be evaluated, and recklessness in venial sin avoided.ġ2. How to know if one’s thoughts are sinful, and if so whether they are mortal or venial.ġ1. In contemplation all remembrance, even of the holiest things, is more hindrance than help.ġ0. Questions arising: the suppression of intellectual curiosity and natural intelligence, and the distinction between the active and contemplative life.ĩ. How one has to deal with one’s thoughts, particularly those arising from curiosity and natural intelligence.Ĩ. The Cloud of Forgetting must obliterate all things.ħ. It can be quickly acquired, though not by knowledge or imagination.ĥ. The work of contemplation is the best of all.Ĥ. An urgent call to humility and the work of contemplation.ģ. The four stages of the Christian life and the call which came to one for whom the book was written.Ģ.
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