Salesian Literature

Chapter 1  :  That for the beauty of human nature God has given the government of all the faculties of the soul to the will

Chapter 2  :  How the will variously governs the powers of the soul

Chapter 3  :  How the will governs the sensual appetite

Chapter 4  :  That love rules over all the affections and passions, and even governs the will, although the will has also a dominion over it

Chapter 5  :  Of the affections of the will

Chapter 6  :  How the love of God has dominion over other loves

Chapter 7  :  Description of love in general

Chapter 8  :  What kind of affinity (covenance) it is which excites love

Chapter 9  :  That love tends to union

Chapter 10  :  That the union which love aspires is spiritual

Chapter 11  :  That there are two portions in the soul, and how

Chapter 12  :  That in these two portions of the soul there are four different degrees of reason

Chapter 13  :  Of the difference of loves

Chapter 14  :  That charity may be named love

Chapter 15  :  Of the affinity there is between God and man

Chapter 16  :  That we have a natural inclination to love God above all things

Chapter 17  :  That we have not naturally the power to love God above all things

Chapter 18  :  That the natural inclinations which we have to love God is not useless

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