THE WAY OF PERFECTION
By
St. Teresa of Avila
PROTESTATIONS – PROLOGUE – Chapter 1 – Chapter 2
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Chapter 1 – Of the reason which moved me to found this convent in such strict observance.
Chapter 2 – Treats of how the necessities of the body should be disregarded
and of the good that comes from poverty.
THE WAY OF PERFECTION
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ST. TERESA OF AVILA
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Continues the subject begun in the first chapter and persuades the sisters to busy themselves constantly in beseeching God to help those who work for the Church. Ends with an exclamatory prayer.

THE WAY OF PERFECTION
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St. Teresa of Avila
Chapter 4 & Appendix
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Exhorts the nuns to keep their Rule and names three things which are important for the spiritual life. Describes the first of these three things, which is love of one’s neighbour, and speaks of the harm which can be done by individual friendships
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St. Teresa of Avila
Chapter 5
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Continues speaking of confessors. Explains why it is important that they should be learned men.
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St. Teresa returns to the subject of perfect love, already begun.

Treats of the same subject of spiritual love and gives certain counsels for gaining it.

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Chapter 8 & 9
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Treats of the great benefit of self-detachment, both interior and
exterior, from all things created.
Treats of the great blessing that shunning their relatives brings
to those who have left the world and shows how by doing so they
will find truer friends.
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St. Teresa of Avila
Chapter 10 & 11
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Teaches that detachment from the things aforementioned is insufficient if we are not detached from our own selves and that this virtue and humility go together.
Continues to treat of mortification and describes how it may be attained in times of sickness.
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THE WAY OF PERFECTION
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Chapter 12
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Teaches that the true lover of God must care little for life and
honour.
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Chapter 13
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Continues to treat of mortification and explains how one must
renounce the world’s standards of wisdom in order to attain to
true wisdom.
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Chapter 14 & 15
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Treats of the great importance of not professing anyone whose spirit is contrary to the things aforementioned.
Treats of the great advantage which comes from our not excusing ourselves, even though we find we are unjustly condemned.
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Describes the difference between perfection in the lives of contemplatives and in the lives of those who are content with mental prayer. Explains how it is sometimes possible for God to raise a distracted soul to perfect contemplation and the reason for this. This chapter and that which comes next are to be noted carefully.

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Chapter 17 & 18
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How not all souls are fitted for contemplation and how some take
long to attain it. True humility will walk happily along the road
by which the Lord leads it.
Continues the same subject and shows how much greater are the
trials of contemplatives than those of actives. This chapter offers
great consolation to actives
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Chapter 19
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Begins to treat of prayer. Addresses souls who cannot reason with
the understanding
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Chapter 27
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Describes the great love shown us by the Lord in the first words of the Paternoster and the great importance of our making no
account of good birth if we truly desire to be the daughters of God.
 
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Chapter 28
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Describes the nature of the Prayer of Recollection and sets down some of the means by which we can make it a habit.
 
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Chapter 29
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Continues to describe methods for achieving this Prayer of Recollection. Says what little account we should make of being favored by our superiors.
 
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Chapter 20 & 21
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Describes how, in one way or another, we never lack consolation on the road of prayer. Counsels the sisters to include this subject continually in their conversation.
Describes the great importance of setting out upon the practice of prayer with firm resolution and of heeding no difficulties put in the way by the devil.
 
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Chapter 22
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Explains the meaning of mental prayer.
 
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Chapter 23
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Describes the importance of not turning back when one has set out upon the way of prayer. Repeats how necessary it is to be resolute.
 
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