The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage

133 entries · 6 sections

ed. by Evelyn Underhill

First Book

Prologue Chapter I. Of the Active Life Chapter II. Showing How We Shall Consider the Coming of Christ in Three Ways Chapter III. Of Humility Chapter VI. Of Charity Chapter V. Of Patient Endurance Chapter VI. Of the Second Coming Of Christ Chapter VII. Of the Blessed Sacraments Chapter VIII. Of the Third Coming of Christ Chapter IX. Showing What Christ Will Do in the Day of Doom Chapter X. Of the Five Kinds of Men Who Shall Appear at the Judgment Chapter XI. Of a Spiritual Going Out With All Virtues Chapter XII. How Humility is the Foundation of All Other Virtues Chapter XIII. Of Obedience Chapter XIV. Of the Renunciation of Self Will Chapter XV. Of Patience Chapter XVI. Of Meekness Chapter XVII. Of Kindliness Chapter XVIII. Of Compassion Chapter XIX. Of Generosity Chapter XX. Of Zeal and Diligence Chapter XXI. Of Temperance and Sobriety Chapter XXII. Of Purity Chapter XXIII. Of Three Enemies to be Overcome by Righteousness Chapter XXIV. Of the Kingdom of the Soul Chapter XXV. Of a Spiritual Meeting of God and Ourselves Chapter XXVI. Of The Desire to Know the Bridegroom in His Nature

Second Book

Prologue Chapter I. How We Achieve Supernatural Sight in Our Inward Workings Chapter II. Of A Three-Fold Unity Which is in Us By Nature Chapter III. Of the Inflow of the Grace of God into Our Spirit Chapter IV. Showing How We Should Found Our Inward Life on A Freedom from Images Chapter V. Of a Three-Fold Coming of Our Lord in the Inward Man Chapter VI. Of the Second Coming of Our Lord in the Inward Man Chapter VII. Of the Third Coming of Our Lord Chapter VIII. How the First Coming Has Four Degrees Chapter IX. Of Unity of Heart Chapter X. Of Inwardness Chapter XI. Of Sensible Love Chapter XII. Of Devotion Chapter XIII. Of Gratitude Chapter XIV. Of Two Griefs Which Arise From Inward Gratitude Chapter XV. A Similitude How We Should Perform the First Degree of Our Inward Exercise Chapter XVI. Another Similitude Concerning the Same Exercise Chapter XVII. Of The Second Degree of Our Inward Exercise, Which Increases Inwardness by Humility Chapter XVIII. Of the Pure Delight of the Heart and the Sensible Powers Chapter XIX. Of Spiritual Inebriation Chapter XX. What May Hinder a Man in this Inebriation Chapter XII. A Similitude How A Man Should Act and Bear Himself in this Case Chapter XXII. Of The Third Degree of the Spiritual Coming of Christ Chapter XXIII. Of the Pain and Restlessness of Love Chapter XXIV. Of Ecstacies and Divine Revelations Chapter XXV. An Example Showing How One is Hindered in this Exercise Chapter XXVI. Another Example Chapter XXVII. A Parable of the Ant Chapter XXVIII. Of the Fourth Degree of the Coming of Christ Chapter XXIX. Showing What the Forsaken Man Should Do Chapter XXX. A Parable: How One May Be Hindered in this Fourth Degree Chapter XXXI. Of Another Hindrance Chapter XXXII. Of Four Kinds of Fever Wherewith A Man May Be Tormented Chapter XXXIII. Showing How These Four Degrees in their Perfection are Found in Christ Chapter XXXIV. Showing How a Man Should Live if He Would be Enlightened Chapter XXXV. Of The Second Coming of Christ, or, the Fountain with Three Rills Chapter XXXVI. The First Rill Adorns the Memory Chapter XXXVII. The Second Rill Enlightens the Understanding Chapter XXXVIII. The Third Rill Establishes the Will to Every Perfection Chapter XXXIX. Showing How the Established Man Shall Go Out in Four Ways Chapter XL. He Shall Go Out Towards God and Towards All Saints Chapter XLI. He Shall Go Out Towards All Sinners Chapter XLII. He Shall Go Out Towards His Friends in Purgatory Chapter XLIII. He Shall Go Out Towards Himself and Towards All Good Men Chapter XLIV. Showing How We May Recognise Those Men Who Fail in Charity to All Chapter XLV. How Christ Was, Is, and Ever Will Be the Lover of All Chapter XLVI. Reproving All Those Who Live on Spiritual Goods in an Inordinate Manner Chapter XLVII. Showing How Christ Has Given Himself to all in Common in the Sacrament of the Altar Chapter XLVIII. Of The Unity of the Divine Nature in the Trinity of the Persons Chapter XLIX. Showing How God Possesses and Moves the Soul Both in a Natural and a Supernatural Way Chapter L. Howing How A Man Should Be Adorned if He is to Receive the Most Inward Exercise Chapter LI. Of the Third Coming of Christ Chapter LII. Showing how the Spirit Goes Out Through the Divine Stirring Chapter LIII. Of an Eternal Hunger for God Chapter LIV. Of A Loving Strife Between the Spirit of God and Our Spirit Chapter LV. Of the Fruitful Works of the Spirit, the Which are Eternal Chapter LVI. Showing the Way in Which We Shall Meet God in a Ghostly Manner Both with and Without Means Chapter LVII. Of the Essential Meeting WITH God Without Means in the Nakedness of Our Nature Chapter LVIII. Showing How One is Like Unto God Through Grace and Unlike Unto God Through Mortal Sin Chapter LIX. Showing How One Possesses God In Union and Rest, Above All Likeness Through Grace Chapter LX. Showing How We Have Need of the Grace of God, Which Makes Us Like Unto God and Leads Us to God Without Means Chapter LIX. of How God and Our Spirit Visit Each Other in the Unity and in the Likeness Chapter LXII. Showing How We Should Go Out to Meet God Chapter LXIII. Of the Ordering of All the Virtues Through the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost Chapter :LXIV. Of the Highest Degree of the Most Interior Life Chapter LXV. Of Three Kinds of Most Inward Practices Chapter LXVI. Showing How Some Men Live Contrary to These Exercises Chapter LXVII. Of Another Kind of Perverted Men

Third Book

Chapter I. Showing the Three Ways by Which One Enters into the God-Seeing Life Chapter II. How the Eternal Birth of God is Renewed Without Interruption in the Nobility of the Spirit Chapter III. How Our Spirit is Called to Go Out in Contemplation and Fruition Chapter IV. Of A Divine Meeting Which Takes Place in the Hiddenness of Our Spirit

The Sparkling Stone

Prologue Chapter I. Through Three Things A Man Becomes Good Chapter II. Through Three Things A Man Becomes Inward ChapterIII. Through Three Things A Man Becomes God-Seeing Chapter IV. Of the Sparkling Stone, and of the New Name Written in the Book of the Secrets of God Chapter V. Of the Works Which God Works in All in Common and of Five Kinds of Sinners Chapter VI. Of the Difference Between the Hirelings and the Faithful Servants of God Chapter VII. Of The Difference Between the Faithful Servants and the Secret Friends of God Chapter VIII. Of the Difference Between the Secret Friends and the Hidden Sons of God Chapter IX. How We May Become Hidden Sons of God, and Attain to the God-Seeing Life Chapter X. How We, Though One With God, Must Eternally Remain Other Than God Chapter XI. Of the Great Difference Between the Brightness of the Saints and the Highest Brightness to Which We Can Attain in This Life Chapter XII. Of The Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Thabor Chapter XIII. How We Ought to Have Fruition Of God Chapter XIV. Of that Common Life Which Comes from the Contemplation and Fruition of God

The Book of Supreme Truth

Prologue Chapter I. Wherefore this Book was Written Chapter II. A Short Repetition of All the Highest Teachings Written by the Author Chapter III. Of the Union Through Means Chapter IV. Of The Men Who Practise A False Vacancy Chapter V. Of the Union Without Means Chapter VI. Of Heavenly Weal and Hellish Woe Chapter VII. Showing Wherefore All Good Men Do Not Attain to the Unmediated Union with God Chapter VIII. Showing How the Inward Man Should Exercise Himself, That He May be United with God Without Means Chapter IX. Of The Inward Working of God's Grace Chapter X. Of the Mutual Contentment of the Divine Persons, and the Mutual Contentment Between God and Good Men Chapter XI. How Good Men in Their Contemplation Have the Love of God Before Them, and How They are Lifted Up INTO God Chapter XII. Of the Highest Union, Without Difference or Distinction Chapter XIII. Of the Threefold Prayer of Christ, That We Might Be One With God Chapter XIV. Here The Author Declares That He Submits All That He Has Written to the Judgment of Holy Church Footnotes