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Luis de la Puente - A Treatise on Mental Prayer

Contents:

PART I

FOR BEGINNERS

The Introduction
Chapter 1. - On the nature of mental prayer
Chapter 2. - On the manner of speaking to god in mental prayer
Chapter 3. - On the virtues which should accompany mental prayer
Chapter 4. - On the matter of mental prayer fit for meditation
Chapter 5. - How to begin our prayer
Chapter 6. - On the manner of meditating and discoursing in prayer, and how we are to resist the distractions which assail us
Chapter 7. - How to aid ourselves in mental prayer by means of the
imagination/ the tongue, and the other faculties
chapter 8. - On contemplation, and how some may use mental prayer without variety of discourse
Chapter 9. - On the extraordinary forms of mental prayer and the divers manners by which god communicates himself in it
Chapter 10. - On the time to be employed in mental prayer and of ejaculatory prayer

PART II

FOR PROFICIENTS IN THE
ILLUMINATIVE WAY

A. Of the three lives, active, contemplative and mixed

Chapter 1. - On the perfect imitation of our saviour Christ which is the end of these meditations
Chapter 2. - On the two lives, active and contemplative
Chapter 3. - On the principal actions of the active life
Chapter 4. - On the actions and works of the contemplative life
Chapter 5. - On the necessity which the active life has of the contemplative and of the complaints made against the contemplative
Chapter 6. - On other imperfections of the active life and on our Lord's method of correcting them
Chapter 7. - On the „one thing necessary“
Chapter 8. - On the excellences of the contemplative life
Chapter 9. - On the excellency of the mixed life

PART II - continued

FOR PROFICIENTS IN THE ILLUMINATIVE WAY

B. Of meditation on the mysteries of the passion of Jesus Christ our lord

Introduction - On mental prayer on the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ

Chapter 1. - On the end we should set before ourselves in meditating on the passion
Chapter 2. - On the dispositions with which we should meditate on the
passion
Chapter 3. - On the different manners of meditating on the passion

PART III

FOR THE PERFECT IN THE UNITIVE WAY

The meditation of the mysteries of Christ our Lord glorified

Chapter 1. - On union with almighty God, which is the end of the unitive way
Chapter 2. - On the fervent affections of love and gratitude which should
accompany these meditations
Chapter 3. - On the manner of meditating the divine benefits with affections of gratitude

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