| PREFACE |
| FIRST PART |
| ON PRAYER IN GENERAL |
| CHAPTER I. — OF PRAYER, AND ESPECIALLY OF VOCAL PRAYER |
| i . — Notion of Prayer in General |
| ii . — Vocal Prayer and Mental Prayer |
| iii . — Attention in Vocal Prayers |
| CHAPTER II. —MENTAL PRAYER —ITS OBJECT |
| i . — Of Mental Prayer in General |
| ii . — Of Ordinary Mental Prayer |
| iii . — Of the End of Mental Prayer |
| CHAPTER III. — ADVANTAGES AND NECESSITY OF MENTAL PRAYER |
| i . — On the Part of the Understanding |
| ii . — On the Part of the Will |
| iii . — What the Saints have Thought of Mental Prayer |
| CHAPTER IV. — THE ELEMENTS OF SUCCESS IN MENTAL PRAYER |
| i . — Dispositions of the Soul |
| ii . — Our Monastic Observances |
| iii . — Mental Prayer Itself |
| CHAPTER V. — CAUSES OF FAILURE IN MENTAL PRAYER |
| i . — Distractions |
| ii . — Want of Sincere Devotion and of Strong Resolutions |
| iii . — Illusions in Mental Prayer |
| iv . — Bodily Indisposition |
| CHAPTER VI. — CONSOLATIONS AND DRYNESS |
| i . — Their Nature |
| ii . — The Origin and Tendency of Consolations and Desolations |
| iii . — Practical Conduct |
| SECOND PART |
| ON ORDINARY MENTAL PRAYER |
| CHAPTER I. — PRAYER OF MEDITATION – COMPENDIUM OF THE METHOD |
| i . — General Idea |
| ii . — Compendium of the Method |
| iii . — Two Short Explanations |
| iv . — Some Counsels |
| CHAPTER II. — OF THE ENTRANCE INTO MEDITATION |
| i . — Necessity of the Immediate Preparation |
| ii . — First Manner of Making the Immediate Preparation |
| iii . — Second Way to commence our Prayer —Of the Composition of Place and other Preludes |
| CHAPTER III. — BODY OF THE MEDITATION — CONSIDERATIONS |
| i — Optional Acts which may serve as an Introduction to the Body of the Meditation Of Adoration |
| ii . — Of Considerations —their Rôle and Extent |
| iii . — Practical Way of Making Considerations |
| iv . — Self-Examination |
| CHAPTER IV. — BODY OF THE MEDITATION (Continued). AFFECTIONS |
| i . — Their Importance |
| ii — Of the Affections which Arise from the Subject of our Prayer |
| iii . — Affections Foreign to the Subject |
| CHAPTER V. — BODY OF THE MEDITATION (Continued) PETITIONS —RESOLUTIONS |
| i . — Petitions |
| ii . — Of Resolutions |
| CHAPTER VI. — CONCLUSION OF THE MEDITATION |
| CHAPTER VII. — EQUIVALENTS OF MEDITATION |
| i . — Contemplation |
| ii . — Application of the Senses |
| iii . — Examination after the Manner of a Meditation |
| iv . — Vocal Prayer Meditated |
| v . — Meditative Reading |
| CHAPTER VIII. — OF AFFECTIVE PRAYER |
| i . — Description of this Prayer |
| ii . — Practical Rules |
| i . — Choice of a subject |
| ii . — Placing oneself in the presence of God |
| iii . — Considerations |
| iv . — Affections |
| i v. — Resolutions |
| CHAPTER IX. — PRAYER OF SIMPLICITY |
| i . — What the Prayer of Simplicity is |
| ii . — Active Contemplation |
| iii . — The Prayer of Simplicity is not a Species of Mystical Contemplation |
| iv . — Advantages of this kind of Prayer |
| v . — When should the Soul pass on to this form of Prayer |
| vi — Rules of Conduct |
| vii . — Employment of Affective Prayer |
| THIRD PART |
| ON MYSTICAL PRAYER |
| CHAPTER I. — UTILITY OF THIS STUDY —FREQUENCY OF THIS PRAYER |
| CHAPTER II. — THE PASSAGE FROM ORDINARY PRAYER TO MYSTICAL CONTEMPLATION —ACTIVE PREPARATION |
| i . — Negative Preparation |
| ii . — Positive Preparation |
| CHAPTER III. — PASSIVE PURIFICATIONS |
| ARTICLE I. — Passive Purification of the Senses |
| i . — Notion of this State |
| ii . — Explanation of this State |
| iii . — Sufferings of this State |
| iv . — Advantages of this State |
| v . — Conduct to be Observed |
| vi . — Duration of these Trials |
| ARTICLE II. — Passive Purgation of the Spirit |
| i . — When it takes place and what it is |
| ii . — Sufferings of this State |
| CHAPTER IV. —OF MYSTICAL CONTEMPLATION |
| i . — Supernatural or Passive Prayer |
| ii . — How in this state God is known in a way that is ineffable |
| iii . — How God in this state is ineffably loved |
| iv . — How in this state the presence of God is felt |
| v . — Influence of this state upon the soul and the body |
| CHAPTER V. —DIFFERENT KINDS OF MYSTICAL PRAYER |
| CHAPTER VI. —OF THE STATE OF QUIET |
| i . — Description of this State |
| ii . — Influence of the state of Quiet upon the Faculties |
| iii . — Various Forms of Quietude |
| iv . — Genesis, Progress and Cessation |
| v . — Practical Direction |
| CHAPTER VII. — UNION OF ALL THE POWERS OF THE SOUL |
| CHAPTER VIII. — ECSTATIC UNION |
| CHAPTER IX. — TRANSFORMING UNION |
| CHAPTER X. — SPIRITUAL ADVANTAGES OF MYSTICAL PRAYER |
| CHAPTER XI. — JOYS AND SUFFERINGS |
| CHAPTER XII. — DANGERS AND ILLUSIONS |
| i . — Dangers |
| ii . — Illusions |
| CHAPTER XIII. — THE DESIRE OF CONTEMPLATION |
| CHAPTER XIV. — CONCLUSION |
