THE BOOK OF SUPREME TRUTH

 CHAPTER I WHEREFORE THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN

 CHAPTER II A SHORT REPETITION OF ALL THE HIGHEST TEACHINGS WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR

 CHAPTER IIIOF THE UNION THROUGH MEANS

 CHAPTER IVOF THE MEN WHO PRACTISE A FALSE VACANCY

 CHAPTER VOF THE UNION WITHOUT MEANS

 CHAPTER VIOF HEAVENLY WEAL AND HELLISH WOE

 CHAPTER VIISHOWING WHEREFORE ALL GOOD MEN DO NOT ATTAIN TO THE UNMEDIATED UNION WITH GOD

 CHAPTER VIIISHOWING HOW THE INWARD MAN SHOULD EXERCISE HIMSELF, THAT HE MAY BE UNITED WITH GOD WITHOUT MEANS

 CHAPTER IXOF THE INWARD WORKING OF GOD’S GRACE

 CHAPTER XOF THE MUTUAL CONTENTMENT OF THE DIVINE PERSONS, AND THE MUTUAL CONTENTMENT BETWEEN GOD AND GOOD MEN

 CHAPTER XI HOW GOOD MEN IN THEIR CONTEMPLATION HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD BEFORE THEM, AND HOW THEY ARE LIFTED UP INTO GOD

 CHAPTER XII OF THE HIGHEST UNION, WITHOUT DIFFERENCE OR DISTINCTION

 CHAPTER XIIIOF THE THREEFOLD PRAYER OF CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE ONE WITH GOD

 CHAPTER XIVHERE THE AUTHOR DECLARES THAT HE SUBMITS ALL THAT HE HAS WRITTEN TO THE JUDGMENT OF HOLY CHURCH

CHAPTER I WHEREFORE THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN

Certain of my friends have desired and besought me, that I should show and make plain in a few words and according to my best cunning, shortly and clearly, how I understand and feel the truth of all the highest teachings that I have written before; so that none should take offense at my words, but everyone should profit by them. And this I willingly consent to do. I will, with God’s help, teach the humble who love virtue and truth; and, with the same words, I shall inwardly vex and darken the false and the proud: for to these my words will be displeasing and contrary, and this the proud cannot endure, but it provokes them to anger.