BOOK IX. OF THE SPIRIT OF DEJECTION.



Index

CHAPTER I: How our fifth combat is against the spirit of dejection, and of the harm which it inflicts upon the soul.

CHAPTER II: Of the care with which the malady of dejection must be healed.

CHAPTER III: To what the soul may be compared which is a prey to the attacks of dejection.

CHAPTER IV: Whence and in what way dejection arises.

CHAPTER V: That disturbances are caused in us not by the faults of other people, but by our own.

CHAPTER VI: That no one comes to grief by a sudden fall, but is destroyed by falling through a long course of carelessness.

CHAPTER VII: That we ought not to give up intercourse with our brethren in order to seek after perfection, but should rather constantly cultivate the virtue of patience.

CHAPTER VIII: That if we have improved our character it is possible for us to get on with everybody.

CHAPTER IX: Of another sort of dejection which produces despair of salvation.

CHAPTER X: Of the only thing in which dejection is useful to us.

CHAPTER XI: How we can decide what is useful and the sorrow according to God, and what is devilish and deadly.

CHAPTER XII: That except that wholesome sorrow, which springs up in three ways, all sorrow and dejection should be resisted as hurtful.

CHAPTER XIII: The means by which we can root out dejection from our hearts.