Theologia Germanica

1 CHAPTER I: Of that which is perfect and that which is in part, and how that which 2 CHAPTER II: Of what Sin is, and how we must not take unto ourselves any good Thing, — CHAPTER III: How Man's Fall and going astray must be amended as Adam's Fall was. 3 CHAPTER IV: How Man, when he claimeth any good Thing for his own, falleth, and — CHAPTER V: How we are to take that Saying, that we must come to be without Will, 4 CHAPTER VI: How that which is best and noblest should also be loved above all 5 CHAPTER VII: Of the Eyes of the Spirit wherewith Man looketh into Eternity and into 6 CHAPTER VIII: How the Soul of Man, while it is yet in the Body, may obtain a 7 CHAPTER IX: How it is better and more profitable for a Man that he should perceive 8 CHAPTER X: How the perfect Men have no other Desire than that they may be to the 9 CHAPTER XI: How a righteous Man in this present Time is brought into hell, and 10 CHAPTER XII: Touching that true inward Peace, which Christ left to His Disciples at 11 CHAPTER XIII: How a Man may cast aside Images too soon — CHAPTER XIV: Of three Stages by which a Man is led upwards till he attaineth true 12 CHAPTER XV: How all Men are dead in Adam and are made alive again in Christ, and of 13 CHAPTER XVI: Telleth us what is the old Man, and what is the new Man. 14 CHAPTER XVII: How we are not to take unto ourselves what we have done well: but only — CHAPTER XVIII: How that the Life of Christ is the noblest and best Life that ever hath 15 CHAPTER XIX: How we cannot come to the true Light and Christ's Life, by much — CHAPTER XX: How, seeing that the Life of Christ is most bitter to Nature and Self, 16 CHAPTER XXI: How a friend of Christ willingly fulfilleth by his outward Works, such — CHAPTER XXII: How sometimes the Spirit of God, and sometimes also the Evil Spirit may 17 CHAPTER XXIII: He who will submit himself to God and be obedient to Him, must be ready 18 CHAPTER XXIV: How that four Things are needful before a Man can receive divine Truth 19 CHAPTER XXV: Of two evil Fruits that do spring up from the Seed of the Evil Spirit, 20 CHAPTER XXVI: Touching Poorness of Spirit and true Humility and whereby we may 21 CHAPTER XXVII: How we are to take Christ's Words when He bade forsake all Things; and — CHAPTER XXVIII: How, after a Union with the Divine Will, the inward Man standeth 22 CHAPTER XXIX: How a Man may not attain so high before Death as not to be moved or 23 CHAPTER XXX: On what wise we may came to be beyond and above all Custom, Order, Law, 24 CHAPTER XXXI: How we are not to cast off the Life of Christ, but practise it 25 CHAPTER XXXII: How God is a true, simple, perfect Good, and how He is a Light and a 26 CHAPTER XXXIII: How when a Man is made truly Godlike, his Love is pure and unmixed, and 27 CHAPTER XXXIV: How that if a Man will attain to that which is best, he must forswear 28 CHAPTER XXXV: How there is deep and true Humility and Poorness of Spirit in a Man who 29 CHAPTER XXXVI: How nothing is contrary to God but Sin only; and what Sin is in Kind 30 CHAPTER XXXVII: How in God, as God, there can neither be Grief, Sorrow, Displeasure, 31 CHAPTER XXXVIII: How we are to put on the Life of Christ from Love, and not for the sake 32 CHAPTER XXXIX: How God will have Order, Custom, Measure, and the like in the Creature, 33 CHAPTER XL: A good Account of the False Light and its Kind. 34 CHAPTER XLI: Now that he is to be called, and is truly, a Partaker of the Divine 35 CHAPTER XLII: A Question: whether we can know God and not love Him, and how there are 36 CHAPTER XLIII: Whereby we may know a Man who is made a partaker of the divine Nature, 37 CHAPTER XLIV: How nothing is contrary to God but Self-will and how he who seeketh his 38 CHAPTER XLV: How that where there is a Christian Life, Christ dwelleth, and how — CHAPTER XLVI: How entire Satisfaction and true Rest are to be found in God alone, and 39 CHAPTER XLVII: A Question: Whether, if we ought to love all Things, we ought to love — CHAPTER XLVIII: How we must believe certain Things of God's Truth beforehand, ere we 40 CHAPTER XLIX: Of Self-will, and how Lucifer and Adam fell away from God through — CHAPTER L: How this present Time is a Paradise and outer Court of Heaven, and how 41 CHAPTER LI: Wherefore God hath created Self-will, seeing that it is so contrary to 42 CHAPTER LII: How we must take those two Sayings of Christ: "No Man cometh unto the 43 CHAPTER LIII: Considereth that other saying of Christ, "No Man can come unto Me, 44 CHAPTER LIV: How a Man shall not seek his own, either in Things spiritual or natural