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A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

A FOREWORD

THE PARABLE OF THE PILGRIM

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

BLESSED HENRY SUSO'S PREFACE TO HIS BOOK

PART THE FIRST.

CHAPTER I. HOW SOME PERSONS ARE UNCONSCIOUSLY ATTRACTED BY GOD.

CHAPTER II. WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE CRUCIFIXION.

CHAPTER III. HOW IT WAS WITH HIM ON THE CROSS ACCORDING TO THE EXTERIOR MAN.

CHAPTER IV. HOW VERY FAITHFUL HIS PASSION WAS.

CHAPTER V. How The Soul Attains Hearty Repentance and Gentle Pardon Under the Cross.

CHAPTER VI. HOW DECEITFUL THE LOVE OF THIS WORLD IS, AND HOW AMIABLE GOD IS.

CHAPTER VII. HOW LOVELY GOD IS.

CHAPTER VIII. AN EXPLANATION OF THREE THINGS WHICH MOST OF ALL MIGHT BE LIKELY TO BE REPUGNANT TO A LOVING HEART IN GOD.--ONE IS, HOW HE CAN APPEAR SO WRATHFUL AND YET BE SO GRACIOUS.

CHAPTER IX. The Second Thing.--Why God, After Rejoicing The Heart, Often Withdraws Himself From His Friends, By Which His True Presence is Made Known.

CHAPTER X. The Third Thing.--Why God Permits His Friends To Suffer So Much Temporal Suffering.

CHAPTER XI. On The Everlasting Pains of Hell.

CHAPTER XII. On The Immeasurable Joys of Heaven.

CHAPTER XIII. On The Immeasurable Dignity of Temporal Suffering.

CHAPTER XIV. On The Unspeakable Advantages to Be Derived From Meditating on The Divine Passion.

CHAPTER XV. From The Fond Caresses Which The Soul Has Has With God Beneath The Cross, She Returns Again To His Passion.

CHAPTER XVI. On The Worthy Praise of The Pure Queen of Heaven.

CHAPTER XVII. On The Unutterable Heart-Rending Grief of The Pure Queen of Heaven.

CHAPTER XVIII. How It Was With Him At That Hour in Regard of His Interior Man.

CHAPTER XIX. On The Taking Down From the Cross.

CHAPTER XX. On The Lamentable Separation of the Grave.

THE SECOND PART

CHAPTER XXI. How We Should Learn to Die, And of The Nature of An Unprovided

CHAPTER XXII. How One Should Live An Interior and Godly Life.

CHAPTER XXIII. How We Ought Lovingly To Receive God.

CHAPTER XXIV. A Prayer To Be Said When Thou Goest To Receive Our Lord's Holy Body.

CHAPTER XXV. How We Should At All Times Praise God.

THE THIRD PART. ONE HUNDRED MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS, COMPRISED IN FEW WORDS.

ON SUNDAY, OR AT MATINS.

ON MONDAY, OR AT PRIME.

ON TUESDAY, OR AT TIERCE.

ON WEDNESDAY, OR AT SEXT.

ON THURSDAY, OR AT NONE.

ON FRIDAY, OR AT VESPERS

ON SATURDAY, OR AT COMPLINE.