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Table of Contents
- Step 1: On renunciation of the world
- Step 2: On detachment
- Step 3: On exile or pilgrimage
- Step 4: On blessed and ever-memorable obedience
- Step 5: On painstaking and true repentance
- Step 6: On remembrance of death
- Step 7: On mourning which causes joy
- Step 8: On freedom from anger and on meekness
- Step 9: On remembrance of wrongs
- Step 10: On slander or calumny
- Step 11: On talkativeness and silence
- Step 12: On lying
- Step 13: On despondency
- Step 14: On the clamorous , yet wicked master-the stomach
- Step 15: On incorruptible purity and chastity
- Step 16: On love of money or avarice
- Step 17: On poverty (that hastens heavenwards)
- Step 18: On insensibility
- Step 19: On sleep, prayer, and psalm-singing
- Step 20: On bodily vigil
- Step 21: On unmanly and puerile cowardice
- Step 22: On the many forms of vainglory
- Step 23: On mad pride
- Step 24: On meekness, simplicity, guilelessness
- Step 25: On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility
- Step 26: On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues
- Step 26a: Brief summary of all the previous steps
- Step 27: On holy solitude of body and soul
- Step 28: On holy and blessed prayer
- Step 29: Concerning heaven on earth, or godlike dispassion and perfection
- Step 30: Concerning the linking together of the supreme trinity among the virtues