Book 10. The Power of Memory

HAVING MANIFESTED WHAT HE WAS AND WHAT HE IS, HE SHOWS THE GREAT FRUIT OF HIS CONFESSION; AND BEING ABOUT TO EXAMINE BY WHAT METHOD GOD AND THE HAPPY LIFE MAY BE FOUND, HE ENLARGES ON THE NATURE AND POWER OF MEMORY. THEN HE EXAMINES HIS OWN ACTS, THOUGHTS AND AFFECTIONS, VIEWED UNDER THE THREEFOLD DIVISION OF TEMPTATION; AND COMMEMORATES THE LORD, THE ONE MEDIATOR OF GOD AND MEN.

Chapter 1. IN GOD ALONE IS THE HOPE AND JOY OF MAN.

Chapter 2. THAT ALL THINGS ARE MANIFEST TO GOD. THAT CONFESSION UNTO HIM IS NOT MADE BY THE WORDS OF THE FLESH, BUT OF! THE SOUL, AND THE CRY OF REFLECTION.

Chapter 3. HE WHO CONFESSETH RIGHTLY UNTO GOD BEST KNOWETH HIMSELF.

Chapter 4. THAT IN HIS CONFESSIONS HE MAY DO GOOD, HE CONSIDERS OTHERS.

Chapter 5. THAT MAN KNOWETH NOT HIMSELF WHOLLY.

Chapter 6. THE LOVE OF GOD, IN HIS NATURE SUPERIOR TO ALL CREATURES, IS ACQUIRED BY THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SENSES AND THE EXERCISE OF REASON.

Chapter 7. THAT GOD IS TO BE FOUND NEITHER FROM THE POWERS OF THE BODY NOR OF THE SOUL.

Chapter 8. OF THE NATURE AND THE AMAZING POWER OF MEMORY.

Chapter 9. NOT ONLY THINGS, BUT ALSO LITERATURE AND IMAGES, ARE TAKEN FROM THE MEMORY, AND ARE BROUGHT FORTH BY THE ACT OF REMEMBERING.

Chapter 10. LITERATURE IS NOT INTRODUCED TO THE MEMORY THROUGH THE SENSES, BUT IS BROUGHT FORTH FROM ITS MORE SECRET PLACES.

Chapter 11. WHAT IT IS TO LEARN AND TO THINK.

Chapter 12. ON THE RECOLLECTION OF THINGS MATHEMATICAL.

Chapter 13. MEMORY RETAINS ALL THINGS.

Chapter 14. CONCERNING THE MANNER IN WHICH JOY AND SADNESS MAY BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE MIND AND MEMORY.

Chapter 15. IN MEMORY THERE ARE ALSO IMAGES OF THINGS WHICH ARE ABSENT.

Chapter 16. THE PRIVATION OF MEMORY IS FORGETFULNESS.

Chapter 17. GOD CANNOT BE ATTAINED UNTO BY THE POWER OF MEMORY, WHICH BEASTS AND BIRDS POSSESS.

Chapter 18. A THING WHEN LOST COULD NOT BE FOUND UNLESS IT WERE RETAINED IN THE MEMORY.

Chapter 19. WHAT IT IS TO REMEMBER.

Chapter 20. WE SHOULD NOT SEEK FOR GOD AND THE HAPPY LIFE UNLESS WE HAD KNOWN IT.

Chapter 21. HOW A HAPPY LIFE MAY BE RETAINED IN THE MEMORY.

Chapter 22. A HAPPY LIFE IS TO REJOICE IN GOD, AND FOR GOD.

Chapter 23. ALL WISH TO REJOICE IN THE TRUTH.

Chapter 24. HE WHO FINDS TRUTH, FINDS GOD.

Chapter 25. HE IS GLAD THAT GOD DWELLS IN HIS MEMORY.

Chapter 26. GOD EVERYWHERE ANSWERS THOSE WHO TAKE COUNSEL OF HIM.

Chapter 27. HE GRIEVES THAT HE WAS SO LONG WITHOUT GOD.

Chapter 28. ON THE MISERY OF HUMAN LIFE.

Chapter 29. ALL HOPE IS IN THE MERCY OF GOD

Chapter 30. OF THE PERVERSE IMAGES OF DREAMS, WHICH HE WISHES TO HAVE TAKEN AWAY.

Chapter 31. ABOUT TO SPEAK OF THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE LUST OF THE FLESH, HE FIRST COMPLAINS OF THE LUST OF EATING AND DRINKING.

Chapter 32. OF THE CHARMS OF PERFUMES WHICH ARE MORE EASILY OVERCOME.

Chapter 33 . HE OVERCAME THE PLEASURES OF THE EAR, ALTHOUGH IN THE CHURCH HE FREQUENTLY DELIGHTED IN THE SONG, NOT IN THE THING SUNG.

Chapter 34. OF THE VERY DANGEROUS ALLUREMENTS OF THE EYES; ON ACCOUNT OF BEAUTY OF FORM, GOD, THE CREATOR, IS TO BE PRAISED.

Chapter 35. ANOTHER KIND OF TEMPTATION IS CURIOSITY, WHICH IS STIMULATED BY THE LUST OF THE EYES.

Chapter 36. A THIRD KIND IS "PRIDE" WHICH IS PLEASING TO MAN, NOT TO GOD.

Chapter 37. HE IS FORCIBLY GOADED ON BY THE LOVE OF PRAISE.

Chapter 38. VAIN- GLORY IS THE HIGHEST DANGER.

Chapter 39. OF THE VICE OF THOSE WHO, WHILE PLEASING THEMSELVES, DISPLEASE GOD.

Chapter 40. THE ONLY SAFE RESTING-PLACE FOR THE SOUL IS TO BE FOUND IN GOD.

Chapter 41. HAVING CONQUERED HIS TRIPLE DESIRE, HE ARRIVES AT SALVATION.

Chapter 42. IN WHAT MANNER MANY SOUGHT THE MEDIATOR.

Chapter 43. THAT JESUS CHRIST, AT THE SAME TIME GOD AND MAN, IS THE TRUE AND MOST EFFICACIOUS MEDIATOR.