Of the Intellectual Powers
80. Of the Appetitive Powers in General
81. Of the Power of Sensuality
82. Of the Will
83. Of Free-Will
84. How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal
Things Beneath It
85. Of the Mode and Order of Understanding
86. What Our Intellect Knows in Material Things
87. How the Intellectual Soul Knows Itself and All Within Itself
88. How the Human Soul Knows What Is Above Itself
89. Of the Knowledge of the Separated Soul
90. Of the First Production of Man's Soul
91. The Production of the First Man's Body
92. The Production of the Woman
93. The End or Term of the Production of Man
94. Of the State and Condition of the First Man as Regards His
Intellect
95. Of Things Pertaining to the First Man's Will--Namely, Grace
and Righteousness
96. Of the Mastership Belonging to Man in the State of Innocence
97. Of the Preservation of the Individual in the Primitive State
98. Of the Preservation of the Species
99. Of the Condition of the Offspring As to the Body
100. Of the Condition of the Offspring As Regards Righteousness
101. Of the Condition of the Offspring As Regards Knowledge
102. Of Man's Abode, Which Is Paradise
TREATISE ON THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT
103. Of the Government of Things in General
104. The Special Effects of the Divine Government
105. Of the Change of Creatures by God
106. How One Creature Moves Another
107. The Speech of the Angels
108. Of the Angelic Degrees of Hierarchies and Orders
109. The Ordering of the Bad Angels
110. How Angels Act on Bodies
111. The Action of the Angels on Man
112. The Mission of the Angels
113. Of the Guardianship of the Good Angels
114. Of the Assaults of the Demons
115. Of the Action of the Corporeal Creature
116. On Fate
117. Of Things Pertaining to the Action of Man
118. Of the Production of Man from Man As to the Soul
119. Of the Propagation of Man As to the Body
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PROLOGUE
Because the Master of Catholic Truth ought not only to teach the
proficient, but also to instruct beginners (according to the Apostle:
As Unto Little Ones in Christ, I Gave You Milk to Drink, Not Meat--
1 Cor. iii. 1, 2)--we purpose in this book to treat of whatever
belongs to the Christian Religion, in such a way as may tend to the
instruction of beginners. We have considered that students in this
Science have not seldom been hampered by what they have found written
by other authors, par
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