CONTENTS

1. The Nature and Extent of Sacred Doctrine -- pg. 1

2. The Existence of God -- pg. 11

3. On the simplicity of God -- pg. 14

4. The Perfection of God -- pg. 20

5. Of Goodness in General -- pg. 23

6. The Goodness of God -- pg. 28

7. The Infinity of God -- pg. 30

8. The Existence of God in Things -- pg. 34

9. The Immutability of God -- pg. 38

10. The Eternity of God -- pg. 40

11. The Unity of God -- pg. 45

12. How God Is known by Us -- pg. 48

13. The Names of God -- pg. 59

14. Of God's Knowledge -- pg. 72

15. Of Ideas -- pg. 86

16. Of Truth -- pg. 89

17. Concerning Falsity -- pg. 95

18. The Life of God -- pg. 99

19. The Will of God -- pg. 103

20. God's Love -- pg. 113

21. The Justice and mercy of God -- pg. 117

22. The Providence of God -- pg. 120

23. Of Predestination -- pg. 125

24. The Book of Life -- pg. 133

25. The Power of God -- pg. 135

26. Of the Divine Beatitude -- pg. 142

27. The Procession of the Divivne Persons -- pg. 147

28. The Divine Relations -- pg. 151

29. The Divine Persons -- pg. 155

30. The Plurality of Persons in God -- pg. 160

31. Of What Belongs to the Unity or Plurality in God -- pg. 164

32. The Knowledge of the Divine Persons -- pg. 168

33. Of the Person of the Father -- pg. 173

34. Of the Person of the Son -- pg. 177

35. Of the Image -- pg. 181

36. Of the Person of the Holy Ghost -- pg. 182

37. Of the Name of the Holy Ghost - Love -- pg. 188

38 .Of the Name of the Holy Ghost, as Gift -- pg. 191

39. Of the Persons in Relation to the Essence -- pg. 193

40. Of the Persons as Compared to the Relations or Properties -- pg. 203

41. Of the Persons in Reference to the Notional Acts -- pg. 207

42. Of Equality and Likeness among the Divine Persons -- pg. 214

43. The Mission of the Divine Persons -- pg. 219

TREATISE ON THE CREATION

44. The Procession of Creatures from God, and of the First Cause of All Things -- pg. 229

45. The Mode of Emanation of Things from the First Principle -- pg. 232

46. Of the Beginning of the Duration of Creatures -- pg. 240

47. Of the Distinction of Things in General -- pg. 245

48. The Distinction of Things in Particular -- pg. 248

49. The Cause of Evil -- pg. 253

TREATISE ON THE ANGELS

50. Of the Substance of the Angels Absolutely Considered -- pg. 259

51. Of the Angels in Comparison with Bodies -- pg. 264

52. Of the Angels in Relation to Place -- pg. 267

53. Of the Local Movement of the Angels -- pg. 269

54. Of the Knowledge of the Angels -- pg. 273

55. Of the Medium of the Angelic Knowledge -- pg. 277

56. Of the Angels’ Knowledge of Immaterial Things -- pg. 280

57. Of the Angels’ Knowledge of Material Things -- pg. 283

58. Of the Mode of the Angelic Knowledge -- pg. 288

59. The Will of the Angels -- pg. 293

60. Of the Love or Dilection of the Angels -- pg. 297

61. Of the Production of the Angels in the Order of Natural Being -- pg. 301

62. Of the Perfection of the Angels in the Order of Grace and of Glory -- pg. 304

63. The Malice of the Angels with Regard to Sin -- pg. 311

64. The Punishment of the Demons -- pg. 319

TREATISE ON THE WORK OF THE SIX DAYS

65. The Work of Creation of Corporeal Creatures -- pg. 324

66. On the Order of Creation Towards Distinction -- pg. 328

67. On the Work of Distinction in Itself -- pg. 334

68. On the Work of the Second Day -- pg. 338

69. On the Work of the Third Day -- pg. 342

70. On the Work of Adornment, As Regards the Fourth Day -- pg. 345

71. On the Work of the Fifth Day -- pg. 350

72. On the Work of the Sixth Day -- pg. 351

73. On the Things That Belong to the Seventh Day -- pg. 352

74. On All the Seven Days in Common -- pg. 355

TREATISE ON MAN

75. Of Man Who Is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: and in the First Place, Concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul -- pg. 363

76. Of the Union of Body and Soul -- pg. 370

77. Of Those Things Which Belong to the Powers of the Soul in General -- pg. 382

78. Of the Specific Powers of the Soul -- pg. 390

79. Of the Intellectual Powers -- pg. 396

80. Of the Appetitive Powers in General -- pg. 408

81. Of the Power of Sensuality -- pg. 410

82. Of the Will -- pg. 413

83. Of Free Will -- pg. 417

84. How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal Things beneath It -- pg. 421

85. Of the Mode and Order of Understanding -- pg. 421

86. What Our Intellect Knows in Material Things -- pg. 440

87. How the Intellectual Soul Knows Itself and All Within Itself -- pg. 443

88. How the Human Soul Knows What Is above Itself -- pg. 447

89. Of the Knowledge of the Separated Soul -- pg. 451

90. Of the First Production of Man’s Soul -- pg. 458

91. The Production of the First Man’s Body -- pg. 461

92. The Production of the Woman -- pg. 466

93. The End or Term of the Production of Man -- pg. 469

94. Of the State and Condition of the First Man as Regards His Intellect -- pg. 478

95. Of Things Pertaining to the First Man’s Will—Namely, Grace and Righteousness -- pg. 482

96. Of the Mastership Belonging to Man in the State of Innocence -- pg. 486

97. Of the Preservation of the Individual in the Primitive State -- pg. 489

98. Of the Preservation of the Species -- pg. 492

99. Of the Condition of the Offspring As to the Body -- pg. 494

100. Of the Condition of the Offspring As Regards Righteousness -- pg. 496

101. Of the Condition of the Offspring As Regards Knowledge -- pg. 498

102. Of Man’s Abode, Which Is Paradise -- pg. 499

TREATISE ON THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT

103. Of the Government of Things in General -- pg. 505

104. The Special Effects of the Divine Government -- pg. 511

105. Of the Change of Creatures by God -- pg. 515

106. How One Creature Moves Another -- pg. 521

107. The Speech of the Angels -- pg. 525

108. Of the Angelic Degrees of Hierarchies and Orders -- pg. 528

109. The Ordering of the Bad Angels -- pg. 537

110. How Angels Act on Bodies -- pg. 539

111. The Action of the Angels on Man -- pg. 543

112. The Mission of the Angels -- pg. 546

113. Of the Guardianship of the Good Angels -- pg. 550

114. Of the Assaults of the Demons -- pg. 555

115. Of the Action of the Corporeal Creature -- pg. 559

116. On Fate -- pg. 566

117. Of Things Pertaining to the Action of Man -- pg. 568

118. Of the Production of Man from Man As to the Soul -- pg. 572

119. Of the Propagation of Man As to the Body -- pg. 577

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