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1 Intro, PaulIII, 0 | compiled certain instructions, or Spiritual Exercises, drawn
2 Prefa, 0, 0 | especially of the Spanish, or, in general, anything like
3 Prefa, 0, 0 | anything like a finished or even perfectly correct,
4 Prefa, 0, 0 | expansion, illustration or development of the original,
5 Prefa, 0, 0 | commentary to another occasion or to other hands.~
6 Prefa, 0, 0 | therefore not be much sought or cared for in the book, but
7 Prefa, 0, 0 | Spanish words from the Latin or Italian, or uses Spanish
8 Prefa, 0, 0 | from the Latin or Italian, or uses Spanish words in an
9 Prefa, 0, 0 | Spanish words in an Italian or Latin sense, or employs
10 Prefa, 0, 0 | Italian or Latin sense, or employs phrases not current
11 Prefa, 0, 0 | in Scholastic Philosophy or Theology. The meaning clear,
12 Prefa, 0, 0 | equivalent English word or phrase.~
13 Annot, 0, 0 | order in which to meditate or contemplate, ought to relate
14 Annot, 0, 0 | events of such Contemplation or Meditation, going over the
15 Annot, 0, 0 | Points with only a short or summary development. For,
16 Annot, 0, 0 | events a little clearer or brings them a little more
17 Annot, 0, 0 | through his own reasoning, or because his intellect is
18 Annot, 0, 0 | we are speaking vocally or mentally with God our Lord,
19 Annot, 0, 0 | mentally with God our Lord, or with His Saints, greater
20 Annot, 0, 0 | has, of necessity, seven or eight days. For, as it happens
21 Annot, 0, 0 | others, and more acted on or tried by different spirits;
22 Annot, 0, 0 | thirty days, a little more or less.~
23 Annot, 0, 0(2) | handwriting, correcting giving or presenting, which is crossed
24 Annot, 0, 0 | movements, such as consolations or desolations, come to the
25 Annot, 0, 0 | tempted, let him not be hard or dissatisfied with him, but
26 Annot, 0, 0 | each of the five Exercises or Contemplations which will
27 Annot, 0, 0 | contemplation, meditation or prayer.~
28 Annot, 0, 0 | inconsiderate and hasty promise or vow: and the more light
29 Annot, 0, 0 | individual and how much help or hindrance he is likely to
30 Annot, 0, 0 | receiving them more to poverty or to a promise, than to their
31 Annot, 0, 0 | opposites, nor more to one state or way of life than to another.
32 Annot, 0, 0 | Exercises should not turn or incline to one side or the
33 Annot, 0, 0 | turn or incline to one side or the other, but standing
34 Annot, 0, 0 | that the soul is attached or inclined to a thing inordinately,
35 Annot, 0, 0 | and possessing an office or benefice, not for the honor
36 Annot, 0, 0 | not to want such office or benefice, or any other thing,
37 Annot, 0, 0 | such office or benefice, or any other thing, unless
38 Annot, 0, 0 | the motive for desiring or having one thing or another
39 Annot, 0, 0 | desiring or having one thing or another be only the service,
40 Annot, 0, 0 | without wanting to ask or know from him who is receiving
41 Annot, 0, 0 | them his personal thoughts or sins, should be faithfully
42 Annot, 0, 0 | For, according as is more or less useful for him, he
43 Annot, 0, 0 | to their age, education or ability, in order not to
44 Annot, 0, 0 | to one who is uneducated or of little intelligence things
45 Annot, 0, 0 | more proper for illiterate or less educated persons. Let
46 Annot, 0, 0 | them has little ability or little natural capacity,
47 Annot, 0, 0 | matter of the Election, or into any other Exercises
48 Annot, 0, 0 | nineteenth: A person of education or ability who is taken up
49 Annot, 0, 0 | taken up with public affairs or suitable business, may take
50 Annot, 0, 0 | and taking another house or room to live in, in as much
51 1, Examen, 0 | against that particular sin or defect which he wants to
52 1, Examen, 0 | into that particular sin or defect, and to amend himself
53 1, Examen, 0 | him go over hour by hour, or period by period, commencing
54 1, Examen, 0 | into that particular sin or defect. Then let him resolve
55 1, Examen, 0 | into that particular sin or defect.~
56 1, Examen, 1 | SOONER OF THAT PARTICULAR SIN OR DEFECT~
57 1, Examen, 1 | into that particular sin or defect, let him put his
58 1, GeneralExam, 1 | making some little delay, or receiving some sensual pleasure,
59 1, GeneralExam, 1 | receiving some sensual pleasure, or when there is some negligence
60 1, GeneralExam, 1 | afterwards as he has consented, or to put it in act if he could.~
61 1, GeneralExam, 2 | swear, either by Creator or creature, if it be not with
62 1, GeneralExam, 2 | for the good of the soul, or the body, or for temporal
63 1, GeneralExam, 2 | of the soul, or the body, or for temporal goods.~By reverence
64 1, GeneralExam, 2 | not make us so attentive or circumspect as to telling
65 1, GeneralExam, 2 | as to telling the truth, or as to affirming it with
66 1, GeneralExam, 2 | does not benefit either me or another, and is not directed
67 1, GeneralExam, 2 | for any useful purpose, or meant to profit one's own
68 1, GeneralExam, 2 | meant to profit one's own or another's soul, the body
69 1, GeneralExam, 2 | another's soul, the body or temporal goods, are never
70 1, GeneralExam, 2 | religious speaks of wars or articles of trade; but in
71 1, GeneralExam, 2 | sin in directing badly, or in speaking idly.~Nothing
72 1, GeneralExam, 2 | injure another's character or to find fault, because if
73 1, GeneralExam, 2 | one can speak of the sin or fault of another:~
74 1, GeneralExam, 2 | sentence given in judgment, or of a public error which
75 1, GeneralExam, 2 | some probable conjectures or grounds for thinking that
76 1, GeneralExam, 3 | according to its greater or less nature, a greater or
77 1, GeneralExam, 3 | or less nature, a greater or a lesser sin.~By recommendations
78 1, GeneralExam, 3 | recommendations of our Superiors, or in doing so oneself.~
79 1, GeneralExam, 4 | present Examen, hour by hour, or period by period: and first
80 1, 1Exercise, 0 | a visible contemplation or meditation - as, for instance,
81 1, 1Exercise, 0 | as for instance, a Temple or Mountain where Jesus Christ
82 1, 1Exercise, 0 | Mountain where Jesus Christ or Our Lady is found, according
83 1, 1Exercise, 0 | invisible contemplation or meditation - as here on
84 1, 1Exercise, 0 | Before all Contemplations or Meditations, there ought
85 1, 1Exercise, 0 | friend speaks to another, or as a servant to his master;
86 1, 2Exercise, 0 | looking from year to year, or from period to period. For
87 1, 3Exercise, 0 | felt greater consolation or desolation, or greater spiritual
88 1, 3Exercise, 0 | consolation or desolation, or greater spiritual feeling.~
89 1, 5Exercise, 0 | morning; the third, before or after Mass; in any case,
90 1, 5Exercise, 0 | arrangement of hours, more or less, I always mean in all
91 1, 5Exercise, 0 | himself to make five Exercises or fewer.~
92 1, Additions, 0 | dress with these thoughts or with others, according to
93 1, Additions, 0 | Addition. The third: A step or two before the place where
94 1, Additions, 0 | where I have to contemplate or meditate, I will put myself
95 1, Additions, 0 | make an act of reverence or humility.~
96 1, Additions, 0 | quarter of an hour, seated or walking leisurely, look
97 1, Additions, 0 | me in the Contemplation or Meditation; and if badly,
98 1, Additions, 0 | think on things of pleasure or joy, such as heavenly glory,
99 1, Additions, 0 | sight, except in receiving or dismissing the person with
100 1, Additions, 0 | any others. The exterior, or fruit of the first, is chastisement
101 1, Additions, 0 | superfluous of delicate or soft things, but it is penance
102 1, Additions, 0 | given by wearing haircloth or cords or iron chains next
103 1, Additions, 0 | wearing haircloth or cords or iron chains next to the
104 1, Additions, 0 | the flesh, by scourging or wounding oneself, and by
105 1, Additions, 0 | seek and find some grace or gift which the person wants
106 1, Additions, 0 | contrition for his sins, or to weep much over them,
107 1, Additions, 0 | to weep much over them, or over the pains and sufferings
108 1, Additions, 0 | suffered in His Passion, or to settle some doubt in
109 1, Additions, 0 | himself, doing penance two or three days, and two or three
110 1, Additions, 0 | two or three days, and two or three others not. For it
111 2, TemporalKing, 1(6) | these words are like me or with me. ~
112 2, TemporalKing, 2 | and an hour before dinner or before supper.~
113 2, TemporalKing, 2 | the Imitation of Christ, or of the Gospels, and of lives
114 2, 1Day, 0 | looked at all the plain or circuit of all the world,
115 2, 1Day, 0 | as on their royal throne or seat of Their Divine Majesty,
116 2, 1Day, 0 | the Three Divine Persons, or to the Eternal Word incarnate,
117 2, 1Day, 0 | Eternal Word incarnate, or to our Mother and Lady,
118 2, 2Contemplat, 0 | whether such road is level or through valleys or over
119 2, 2Contemplat, 0 | level or through valleys or over hills; likewise looking
120 2, 2Contemplat, 0 | likewise looking at the place or cave of the Nativity, 10
121 2, 2Contemplat, 0(10) | The place or cave of the Nativity is
122 2, 3Contemplat, 0 | some knowledge, consolation or desolation, making likewise
123 2, 5Contemplat, 0 | the hearing what they are, or might be, talking about
124 2, 5Contemplat, 0 | have not to make that day or at that hour, in order that
125 2, 5Contemplat, 0 | making the Exercises is old or weak, or, although strong,
126 2, 5Contemplat, 0 | Exercises is old or weak, or, although strong, has become
127 2, 5Contemplat, 0 | Incarnation down to the place or Mystery which I am engaged
128 2, 5Contemplat, 0 | manage as to keeping darkness or light, making use of good
129 2, 5Contemplat, 0 | making use of good weather or bad, according as he feels
130 2, Preamble, 0 | and to ask in what life or state His Divine Majesty
131 2, 4Day, 0 | riches; the second, contumely or contempt against worldly
132 2, 4Day, 0 | without the sin of any person, or displeasure of His Divine
133 2, SameFourth, 0 | thousand ducats, not solely or as they ought13 for God'
134 2, SameFourth, 0(13) | Not solely or as they ought is a correction
135 2, SameFourth, 0 | keep the thing acquired or not to keep it, but only
136 2, SameFourth, 0 | but only want to want it or not want it according as
137 2, SameFourth, 0 | themselves not to want that or any other thing, unless
138 2, SameFourth, 0 | moves them to take the thing or leave it.~
139 2, SameFourth, 0 | when we feel a tendency or repugnance against actual
140 2, SameFourth, 0 | not indifferent to poverty or riches, it is very helpful,
141 2, 5Day, 0 | Colloquies of the three Pairs, or according to the note which
142 2, 12Day, 0 | each one wants to spend, or according as he gets profit,
143 2, 12Day, 0 | profit, he can lengthen or shorten: if he lengthens,
144 2, 12Day, 0 | Commandment, whether Divine or human, which binds me under
145 2, 12Day, 0 | as such, rather than wise or prudent in this world.~
146 2, 12Day, 0 | serve Him, if it be equal or greater service and praise
147 2, Prelude, 0 | am created, not ordering or bringing the end to the
148 2, Prelude, 0 | secondarily, to take a benefice, or to marry, if it is more
149 2, Prelude, 0 | move me to take such means or to deprive myself of them,
150 2, Election, 0 | election should be indifferent, or good, in itself, and should
151 2, Election, 0 | as are to take benefices or leave them, to take temporal
152 2, Election, 0 | to take temporal goods or rid oneself of them.~
153 2, Election, 0 | this, setting up a perverse or bad election as a Divine16
154 2, Election, 0 | without mixture of flesh, or of any other inordinate
155 2, Election, 0 | has not yielded to flesh or world, there is no reason
156 2, GoodElection, 0 | that without doubting, or being able to doubt, such
157 2, GoodElection, 0 | chooses as means a life or state within the limits
158 2, GoodElection, 0 | is not made in the first or the second time, two ways
159 2, 1Way, 0 | election, such as an office or benefice, either to take
160 2, 1Way, 0 | benefice, either to take or leave it; or any other thing
161 2, 1Way, 0 | either to take or leave it; or any other thing whatever
162 2, 1Way, 0 | that I be not more inclined or disposed to take the thing
163 2, 1Way, 0 | holding the proposed office or benefice for only the praise
164 2, 1Way, 0 | Point. Sixth, such election, or deliberation, made, the
165 2, 2Way, 0 | himself that that love, more or less, which he has for the
166 2, Amend, 0 | in ecclesiastical office or in matrimony - whether they
167 2, Amend, 0 | whether they abound much or not in temporal goods -
168 2, Amend, 0 | they have no opportunity or have not a very prompt will
169 3, 1Day, 0 | small, whether of one kind or whether of another.~
170 3, 1Day, 0 | suffering in His Humanity, 19 or wants to suffer, according
171 3, 1Day, 0 | as I find myself tempted or consoled, and according
172 3, 1Day, 0 | desire to have one virtue or another, as I want to dispose
173 3, 1Day, 0 | myself in one direction or another, as I want to grieve
174 3, 1Day, 0 | another, as I want to grieve or rejoice at the thing which
175 3, 1Day, 0 | only, to Christ our Lord, or, if the matter or devotion
176 3, 1Day, 0 | Lord, or, if the matter or devotion move me, three
177 3, 2Day, 0 | each day the five Exercises or fewer.~
178 3, 2Day, 0 | together in one Exercise, or in different ones, as it
179 3, RulesOneself, 0 | to act so inordinately, or to which temptation urges
180 3, RulesOneself, 0 | great corporal strength or disposition for the Spiritual
181 3, RulesOneself, 0 | either on the life of Saints, or on some pious Contemplation,
182 3, RulesOneself, 0 | some pious Contemplation, or on some spiritual affair
183 3, RulesOneself, 0 | very helpful, after dinner or after supper, or at another
184 3, RulesOneself, 0 | dinner or after supper, or at another hour when one
185 3, RulesOneself, 0 | oneself for the coming dinner or supper, and so on, each
186 3, RulesOneself, 0 | because of any appetite or temptation, but rather,
187 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | Sepulchre and the place or house of Our Lady, looking
188 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | finish with a Colloquy, or Colloquies, according to
189 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | five Senses, in shortening or lengthening the Mysteries.~
190 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | second, at the hour of Mass, or before dinner, in place
191 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | certain number - as three, or five, etc., the person who
192 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | contemplating can set more or fewer Points, according
193 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | The seventh, to use light or temporal comforts - as,
194 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | and in winter, the sun or heat - as far as the soul
195 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | as far as the soul thinks or conjectures that it can
196 4, 1Contemplat, 0 | question of precepts of fasting or of abstinence which the
197 Contem, 0, 0 | the beloved what he has or out of what he has or can;
198 Contem, 0, 0 | has or out of what he has or can; and so, on the contrary,
199 Contem, 0, 0 | said in the first Point, or in another which I feel
200 Method, 1Method, 0 | rather than to give any form or way of praying.~
201 Method, 1Method, 1 | the person being seated or walking about, as may seem
202 Method, 1Method, 1 | himself that he stumbles more or less on that Commandment
203 Method, 1Method, 1 | ought to keep himself more or less on the consideration
204 Method, 1Method, 4 | each sense, say a HAIL MARY or an OUR FATHER.~And whoever
205 Method, 2Method, 0 | that the person, kneeling or seated, according to the
206 Method, 2Method, 0 | keeping the eyes closed or fixed on one place, without
207 Method, 2Method, 0 | word of the OUR FATHER, or of any other prayer which
208 Method, 2Method, 0 | HAIL, HOLY QUEEN, vocally or mentally, according to the
209 Method, 2Method, 0 | FATHER find in one word, or in two, matter so good to
210 Method, 2Method, 0 | third is that if on one word or two of the OUR FATHER one
211 Method, 2Method, 0 | the above-mentioned word, or the two, as he is accustomed;
212 Method, 2Method, 0 | FATHER finished, in one or in many days, the same has
213 Method, 2Method, 0 | him ask for the virtues or graces of which he feels
214 Method, 3Method, 0 | that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally,
215 Method, 3Method, 0 | word of the OUR FATHER, or of another prayer which
216 Method, 3Method, 0 | the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he
217 Method, 3Method, 0 | person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or
218 Method, 3Method, 0 | or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such
219 Method, 3Method, 0 | Rule is, on the other day, or at another hour, that he
220 Method, 3Method, 0 | above-mentioned prayers or part of them, keeping the
221 Annunc, Purification, 0 | a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons."~
222 Rules, Receive, 0 | of sorrow for one's sins, or for the Passion of Christ
223 Rules, Receive, 0 | Passion of Christ our Lord, or because of other things
224 Rules, Receive, 0 | preceding such desolation, or in the determination in
225 Rules, Receive, 0 | of our being tepid, lazy or negligent in our spiritual
226 Rules, Receive, 0 | that it is not ours to get or keep great devotion, intense
227 Rules, Receive, 0 | devotion, intense love, tears, or any other spiritual consolation,
228 Rules, Receive, 0 | intellect into some pride or vainglory, attributing to
229 Rules, Receive, 0 | attributing to us devotion or the other things of the
230 Rules, Receive, 0 | desolation without such grace or consolation.~On the contrary,
231 Rules, Receive, 0 | daughter of a good father or a wife of a good husband,
232 Rules, Receive, 0 | daughter reveals to her father or the wife to her husband
233 Rules, Receive, 0 | them to his good Confessor or to another spiritual person
234 Rules, Receive, 0 | and looking at the forces or defences of a stronghold,
235 Rules, 2Week, 0 | without any previous sense or knowledge of any object
236 Rules, 2Week, 0 | a distracting tendency, or less good than what the
237 Rules, 2Week, 0 | previously proposed to do, or if it weakens it or disquiets
238 Rules, 2Week, 0 | do, or if it weakens it or disquiets or disturbs the
239 Rules, 2Week, 0 | weakens it or disquiets or disturbs the soul, taking
240 Rules, 2Week, 0 | of the soul is contrary or like to the said Angels.
241 Rules, 2Week, 0 | concepts and judgments, or through the good spirit
242 Rules, 2Week, 0 | through the good spirit or through the bad, he forms
243 Rules, 2Week, 0 | entire credit is given them, or they are put into effect.~
244 Rules, Distribution, 0 | distribution to relatives or friends, or to persons for
245 Rules, Distribution, 0 | to relatives or friends, or to persons for whom I have
246 Rules, Distribution, 0 | in me that the love, more or less, which I have to such
247 Rules, Distribution, 0 | man whom I have never seen or known, and desiring all
248 Rules, Scruples, 0 | have stepped on that cross, or after I have thought or
249 Rules, Scruples, 0 | or after I have thought or said or done some other
250 Rules, Scruples, 0 | after I have thought or said or done some other thing, there
251 Rules, Scruples, 0 | much if a soul is gross or delicate, and if it is delicate,
252 Rules, Scruples, 0 | consent to either mortal sin or venial or any appearance
253 Rules, Scruples, 0 | either mortal sin or venial or any appearance of deliberate
254 Rules, Scruples, 0 | is not sin, as in a word or very small thought.~If the
255 Rules, Scruples, 0 | have it now make much less or none.~
256 Rules, Scruples, 0 | good soul wants to speak or do something within the
257 Rules, Scruples, 0 | there comes to him a thought or temptation from without
258 Rules, Scruples, 0 | apparent reasons of vainglory or of another thing, etc., -
259 Rules, Scruples, 0 | that it is His due service, or at the least not contrary
260 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | such as to be a merchant, or to be married, etc.~
261 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | Because, although some are not or have not been such, to speak
262 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | whether preaching in public or discoursing before the common
263 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | Superiors, whether temporal or spiritual. So that, as it
264 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | Sentences, etc., to define or explain for our times41
265 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0(41)| Or explain for our times is
266 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | Augustine; he is another, or greater than, St. Francis;
267 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | Whether I have to be saved or condemned is already determined,
268 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | be, through my doing well or ill; and with this, growing
269 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | faith is formed in charity or after.~
270 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | free will receive any harm, or be held for nothing.~
271 Rules, TrueSentimen, 0 | reaches nothing else better or more useful - helps much
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