passage beyond discursive meditation into a more simplified prayer of faith.

Its seventeen chapters discuss:

# pacifying the heart amid temptation and tribulation;
# perseverance in prayer when discursive meditation becomes impossible;
# the limits of meditation as a path to union with God;
# dryness in prayer;
# sensible devotion and essential devotion;
# spiritual darkness as an instrument of purification;
# divine purgation beyond self-chosen mortifications;
# the suffering involved in this

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