BOOK XII. OF THE SPIRIT OF PRIDE.



Index

CHAPTER I: How our eighth combat is against the spirit of pride, and of its character.

CHAPTER II: How there are two kinds of pride.

CHAPTER III: How pride is equally destructive of all virtues.

CHAPTER IV: How by reason of pride Lucifer was turned from an archangel into a devil.

CHAPTER V: That incentives to all sins spring from pride.

CHAPTER VI: That the sin of pride is last in the actual order of the combat, but first in time and origin.

CHAPTER VII: That the evil of pride is so great that it rightly has even God Himself as its adversary.

CHAPTER VIII: How God has destroyed the pride of the devil by the virtue of humility, and various passages in proof of this.

CHAPTER IX: How we too may overcome pride.

CHAPTER X: How no one can obtain perfect virtue and the promised bliss by his own strength alone.

CHAPTER XI: The case of the thief and of David, and of our call in order to illustrate the grace of God.

CHAPTER XII: That no toil is worthy to be compared with the promised bliss.

CHAPTER XIII: The teaching of the elders on the method of acquiring purity.

CHAPTER XIV: That the help of God is given to those who labour.

CHAPTER XV: From whom we can learn the way of perfection.

CHAPTER XVI: That we cannot even make the effort to obtain perfection without the mercy and inspiration of God.

CHAPTER XVII: Various passages which clearly show that we cannot do anything which belongs to our salvation without the aid of God.

CHAPTER XVIII: How we are protected by the grace of God not only in our natural condition, but also by His daily Providence.

CHAPTER XIX: How this faith concerning the grace of God was delivered to us by the ancient Fathers.

CHAPTER XX: Of one who for his blasphemy was given over to a most unclean spirit.

CHAPTER XXI: The instance of Joash, King of Judah, showing what was the consequence of his pride.

CHAPTER XXII: That every proud soul is subject to spiritual wickedness to be deceived by it.

CHAPTER XXIII: How perfection can only be attained through the virtue of humility.

CHAPTER XXIV: Who are attacked by spiritual and who by carnal pride.

CHAPTER XXV: A description of carnal pride, and of the evils which it produces in the soul of a monk.

CHAPTER XXVI: That a man whose foundation is bad, sinks daily from bad to worse.

CHAPTER XXVII: A description of the faults which spring from the evil of pride.

CHAPTER XXVIII: On the pride of a certain brother.

CHAPTER XXIX: The signs by which you can recognize the presence of carnal pride in a soul.

CHAPTER XXX: How when a man has grown cold through pride he wants to be put to rule other people.

CHAPTER XXXI: How we can overcome pride and attain perfection.

CHAPTER XXXII: How pride which is so destructive of all virtues can itself be destroyed by true humility.

CHAPTER XXXIII: Remedies against the evil of pride.