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.