Richard of St. Victor : The Twelve Patriarchs, the Mystical Ark Book, Three of the Trinity

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ISBN: 9780809121229 | 0809121220
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Copyright: 3/1/1979

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Author of the Preface	p. viii
Editor of This Volume	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Concerning the Pursuit of Wisdom and Its Excellence	p. 53
Concerning Longing for Justice and Its Nature	p. 54
Concerning the Two Sources of All Good: Reason and Affection	p. 55
How through Pursuit of Wisdom the Soul is Often Secretly Drawn to the Exercise of Justice	p. 56
How Imagination Serves Reason, and Sensation, Affection	p. 57
Concerning the Vice of Imagination and Sensation	p. 58
What the Principal Affections Are and in What Order or Manner They Are Brought Back to Virtues	p. 59
How and from What Ordered Fear is Born	p. 60
How Grief is Born and is Ordered	p. 61
How Hope is Born and is Ordered	p. 62
How Love is Born and is Ordered	p. 62
What the Nature of Love Is	p. 63
How the Mind is Incited to Investigation of Invisible Things by Love of Invisible Things	p. 65
What the First Way is for Everyone Entering into the Contemplation of Invisible Things: Namely through the Imagination	p. 66
How Divine Scripture Refers to the Speculation of Weak Persons	p. 67
That One Kind of Imagination is Bestial, the Other, Rational	p. 67
We Interpret in Various Ways That Which We Call Imagination, Reason, or Will	p. 69
Concerning the Twofold Speculation That Arises from Imagination	p. 69
Concerning the First Speculation and Its Nature	p. 71
Concerning the Function of the First Speculation	p. 71
Concerning the Usefulness of the First Speculation	p. 73
Concerning the Second Speculation and Its Nature	p. 74
What is Familiar and Even Special to the Second Speculation	p. 75
How Great the Joy of the Second Speculation Is	p. 76
Concerning the Twofold Offspring of Virtues, Which is Born from Conquered Sensation	p. 77
Concerning the Rigor of Abstinence, the Vigor of Patience, and the Nature of Both	p. 78
That Appetite of Sensation Cannot Be Governed If Wandering of Imagination is Not Restrained	p. 80
How the Soul is Strengthened for All Obedience by Means of Abstinence and Patience	p. 81
How Human Praise Rises Up from Abstinence, and How Carefully the Appetite for It Ought to Be Governed	p. 82
From What Source Praise Most Particularly Ought to Be Accustomed to Rise Up; and That True Praise Ought to Be from Right Will	p. 83
How the Discipline of the Heart, like That of the Body, is Strengthened by the Above-Mentioned Virtues	p. 84
That Discipline of Thinking Cannot Be Maintained without Discipline of the Senses	p. 85
How the Above-Mentioned Virtues Cooperate with Each Other by Turns in the Protection of the Heart	p. 86
That Mercy Always Accompanies Perfect Patience	p. 87
The Excellence of Perfect Patience	p. 88
How and in What Order True Joy is Born	p. 89
The Comparison of Interior and Exterior Sweetness	p. 91
What is Accustomed to Impede That Inner Joy	p. 92
How Inner Sweetness is Accustomed Both to Strengthen the Soul for Brave Things and to Incline It toward Humble Things	p. 93
How and in What Order Hatred of the Vices is Born in Us	p. 96
How Rare It is to Have Zeal for Uprightness Arising from a True Hatred of Vices	p. 97
What is the Office of a True Zealot	p. 98
That It is the Task of the True Zealot to Watch Not Only against Violence but Also against Fraud	p. 99
Of What Kind and How Great It is to Have Perfect Zeal of Souls	p. 100
How and from Whence Ordered Shame is Born	p. 101
What and of What Kind Ordered Shame Is	p. 102
How Rare It is to Have True Shame	p. 103
What the Nature of Shame Is	p. 104
Concerning the Usefulness and Loveliness of Shamefacedness	p. 105
How a Shamefaced Mind Steps over the Boundaries of Modesty When It is Corrupted by Pride and Vainglory	p. 106
How the Mind That Feels Shamefacedness is Diverted from the Uprightness of Its Intention	p. 108
How at One and the Same Time, While One Virtue is Being Ruined, Other Virtues Are Nourished from the Same Source	p. 109
With How Much Insistence and Caution a Perverted Intention Ought to Be Corrected	p. 110
In What Manner and How Cautiously One Ought to Change an Intention and Ought Not to Abandon Integrity of Conduct	p. 111
With What Consideration We Especially Ought to Correct Perversion of Intention	p. 112
That the Mind in All Its Corruption Ought to Grieve Patiently and Ought Not to Give Up Hope for Its Improvement	p. 113
In What Manner and How Cautiously a Corrupted Mind Ought to Be Punished by Means of Reproach for Sin and Exaction of Debt	p. 114
How by Excessive Affliction the Mind Sometimes Becomes Ungoverned Up to the Point of Shamelessness	p. 115
That Ordered Shamefacedness is Not Good Unless It is Also Moderate	p. 116
A Brief Recapitulation concerning the Number of Principal Affections and the Way of Ordering Them	p. 117
That Ordered Affections Are Truly Good, If They Are Also Moderated	p. 118
In What Way Fear Goes beyond the Limit of Equity	p. 118
To What Shameless Wandering an Excess of Fear Prostitutes the Mind	p. 119
Concerning the Force and Efficacy of Fear, without Which We Neither Abandon Evil nor Begin Good	p. 120
Concerning the Superiority of Fear and concerning the Other Affections, Which Are Ruled by Which	p. 121
How Virtues Are Turned into Vices, Unless They Are Moderated by Discretion	p. 123
How and How Late Discretion is Born, since It is the First Offspring of Reason	p. 124
Concerning the Utility of Discretion and Its Proper Nature	p. 125
How Useful It Is, and Also How Difficult, to Conform Perfectly to Discretion	p. 126
Concerning the Manifold Function of True Discretion	p. 128
Concerning the Two Offspring of Reason, Viz., Grace of Discretion Andgrace of Contemplation	p. 129
How the Soul is Lifted Up to Contemplation of God by Means of Full Knowledge of Self	p. 129
How Arduous and Difficult It is to Acquire the Grace of Contemplation	p. 130
Concerning That Kind of Contemplation Which is above Reason	p. 131
Concerning the Supereminence of Spiritual Contemplations	p. 132
How Rare and How Delightful It is to Bring Spiritual Contemplations into Use and to Turn Them into Pleasure	p. 134
That without Prevenient Grace We Strive in Vain for the Summit	p. 135
How Much Full Knowledge of Self is Effective	p. 136
In What Ways We Reach to the Height of Knowledge	p. 136
How the Divine Showing Happens at the Highest Point of Our Effort	p. 137
How Every Showing That is Not Accompanied by the Witness of Scripture Ought to Be Suspect	p. 138
How There Are Incomprehensible Things That the Mind Sees by Ecstasy from a Divine Showing	p. 139
That the Mind That is Accustomed to Remain in the Innermost Parts Perceives Divine Showings	p. 141
How the Mind That Eagerly Strives for Contemplation of Celestial Things Ought to Gather Itself within	p. 142
How Joyful and Sweet It is to Have the Grace of Contemplation Habitually	p. 143
Concerning Two Kinds of Contemplation	p. 145
How Contemplation Ends in Meditation and How Meditation Rises Up into Contemplation	p. 146
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Appendix	p. 344
That Thus Far We Have Treated the Unity of the Divine Substance; Hereafter We Must Inquire What We Should Hold concerning the Plurality of Divine Persons	p. 373
How Fullness of Goodness Shows Clearly from the Nature of Charity That in True Divinity, Plurality of Persons Cannot Be Lacking	p. 374
That the Fullness of Divine Happiness Confirms What the Fullness of Goodness Says concerning the Plurality of Divine Persons	p. 375
That What is Asserted in the Above-Mentioned Two Witnesses concerning the Plurality of Persons is Confirmed by Considering the Fullness of Divine Glory	p. 376
That the Above-Mentioned Assertion of Divine Plurality is Confirmed by a Triple Testimony	p. 378
It is Utterly Necessary That Divine Persons Exist Coeternally	p. 379
That in That Plurality of Persons Both Supreme Equality and Supreme Similitude Must Exist	p. 379
According to a Marvelous Reasoning There is a Substantial Unity in That Plurality and a Personal Plurality in That True Unity of Substance	p. 380
That in the Divine Nature There is Plurality of Persons in a Unity of Substance; and in Human Nature There is Plurality of Substances in a Unity of Person	p. 382
How from the Plurality and Unity That He Discovers in Himself a Man is Taught What He Ought to Think, by Way of Opposites as It Were, concerning Those Things Which Are Proposed to Him for Believing with Respect to His God	p. 383
How It is Shown Clearly from the Integrity of Charity That True Trinity is in True Unity and True Unity is in True Trinity	p. 384
How Supreme Goodness and Supreme Happiness Harmoniously Proclaim the Trinity and Confirm It by Mutual Witness	p. 385
That the Fullness of Divine Glory Seems to Shout out in Conclusive Witness of Supreme Goodness and Happiness	p. 386
That a Sharing of Love Cannot Exist at All among Less Than Three Persons	p. 387
That It is Necessary for a Pair of Persons in the Divinity to Seek out a Third Person with Equal Desire and for a Similar Reason	p. 388
That Fullness of Power and Wisdom Seems to Be Able to Exist in a Single Person	p. 389
That the Fulfillment of Happiness Does Not Seem to Be Able to Subsist without a Pair of Persons	p. 390
How the Consummation of True and Supreme Goodness Does Not Seem to Be Able to Subsist without the Completion of the Trinity	p. 391
How a Trace of the Trinity Can Be Grasped by Examining Only the Particular Nature of Shared Love	p. 391
That There is Supreme Equality in That Trinity in Which It is Necessary for All to Be Equally Perfect	p. 393
That from Shared Fellowship with a Third Person in That Trinity It is Argued That Concordant Charity and Consocial Love Are Never Found Anywhere in an Individual	p. 393
That There is Supreme Simplicity in Each Person, True and Supreme Unity in All Together, and Marvelous Identity Everywhere	p. 394
How the Aforementioned Equality Ought to Be Understood in These Persons Where There is So Much Unity and Such Identity	p. 395
That in That Trinity Nothing is Dissimilar to Itself nor is It Unequal to Any Other in Anything	p. 396
How Incomprehensible Supreme Coequality is from Every Viewpoint	p. 396
Selected Bibliography	p. 399
Index to Preface and Introduction	p. 401
Index to Text	p. 405
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