XIV. THE FIRST CONFERENCE OF ABBOT NESTEROS ON SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
Index
CHAPTER I: The words of Abbot Nesteros on the knowledge of the religious.
CHAPTER II: On grasping the knowledge of spiritual things.
CHAPTER III: How practical perfection depends on a double system.
CHAPTER IV: How practical life is distributed among many different professions and interests.
CHAPTER V: On perseverance in the line that has been chosen.
CHAPTER VI: How the weak are easily moved.
CHAPTER VII: An instance of chastity which teaches us that all men should not be emulous of all things.
CHAPTER VIII: Of spiritual knowledge.
CHAPTER IX: How from practical knowledge we must proceed to spiritual.
CHAPTER X: How to embrace the system of true knowledge.
CHAPTER XI: Of the manifold meaning of the Holy Scriptures.
CHAPTER XII: A question how we can attain to forgetfulness of the cares of this world.
CHAPTER XIII: Of the method by which we can remove the dross from our memory.
CHAPTER XIV: How an unclean soul can neither give nor receive spiritual knowledge.
CHAPTER XV: An objection owing to the fact that many impure persons have knowledge while saints have not.
CHAPTER XVI: The answer to the effect that bad men cannot possess true knowledge.
CHAPTER XVII: To whom the method of perfection should be laid open.
CHAPTER XVIII: Of the reasons for which spiritual learning is unfruitful.
CHAPTER XIX: How often even those who are not worthy can receive the grace of the saving word.