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.