Chapter XIII — -Of the benefits which the soul receives through banishing from
itself the apprehensions of the imagination. This chapter answers a certain objection and describes a difference which exists between apprehensions that are imaginary, natural and supernatural
CHAPTER XIV.--Which treats of spiritual knowledge in so far as it may concern the
memory
CHAPTER XV.--Which sets down the general method whereby the spiritual person
must govern himself with respect to this sense
CHAPTER XVI.--Which begins to treat of the dark night of the will. Makes a division
between the affections of the will
CHAPTER XVII.--Which begins to treat of the first affection of the will. Describes the
nature of joy and makes a distinction between the things in which the will can rejoice
CHAPTER XVIII.--Which treats of joy with respect to temporal blessings. Describes
how joy in them must be directed to God
CHAPTER XIX.--Of the evils that may befall the soul when it sets its rejoicing upon
temporal blessings
CHAPTER XX.--Of the benefits that come to the soul from its withdrawal of joy from
temporal things
CHAPTER XXI.--Which describes how it is vanity to set the rejoicing of the will upon
the good things of nature, and how the soul must direct itself, by means of them, to God
CHAPTER XXII.--Of the evils which come to the soul when it sets the rejoicing of its
will upon the good things of nature
CHAPTER XXIII.--Of the benefits which the soul receives from not setting its
rejoicing upon the good things of nature
CHAPTER XXIV.--Which treats of the third kind of good thing whereon the will may
set the affection of rejoicing, which kind pertains to sense. Indicates what these good things are and of how many kinds, and how the will has to be directed to God and purged of this rejoicing
CHAPTER XXV.--Which treats of the evils that afflict the soul when it desires to set
the rejoicing of its will upon the good things of sense
CHAPTER XXVI.--Of the benefits that come to the soul from self-denial in rejoicing
as to things of sense, which benefits are spiritual and temporal
CHAPTER XXVII.--Which begins to treat of the fourth kind of good -- namely, the
moral. Describes wherein this consists, and in what manner joy of the will therein is lawful
CHAPTER XXVIII.--Of seven evils into which a man may fall if he set the rejoicing of
his will upon moral good