THE SPARKLING STONE

 CHAPTER I THROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES GOOD

 CHAPTER II THROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES INWARD

 CHAPTER III CHAPTER IIITHROUGH THREE THINGS A MAN BECOMES GOD-SEEING

 CHAPTER IV OF THE SPARKLING STONE, AND OF THE NEW NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE SECRETS OF GOD

 CHAPTER V OF THE WORKS WHICH GOD WORKS IN ALL IN COMMON AND OF FIVE KINDS OF SINNERS

 CHAPTER VI OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HIRELINGS AND THE FAITHFUL SERVANTS OF GOD

 CHAPTER VII OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FAITHFUL SERVANTS AND THE SECRET FRIENDS OF GOD

 CHAPTER VIII OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SECRET FRIENDS AND THE HIDDEN SONS OF GOD

 CHAPTER IX HOW WE MAY BECOME HIDDEN SONS OF GOD, AND ATTAIN TO THE GOD-SEEING LIFE

 CHAPTER X HOW WE, THOUGH ONE WITH GOD, MUST ETERNALLY REMAIN OTHER THAN GOD

 CHAPTER XI OF THE GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SAINTS AND THE HIGHEST BRIGHTNESS TO WHICH WE CAN ATTAIN IN THIS LIFE

 CHAPTER XII OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST ON MOUNT THABOR

 CHAPTER XIII HOW WE OUGHT TO HAVE FRUITION OF GOD

 CHAPTER XIVOF THAT COMMON LIFE WHICH COMES FROM THE CONTEMPLATION AND FRUITION OF GOD

THE SPARKLING STONE

PROLOGUE

The man who would live in the most perfect state of Holy Church must be a good and zealous man; an inward and ghostly man; an uplifted and God-seeing man; and an outflowing man to all in common. Whenever these four things are together in a man, then his state is perfect; and through the increase of grace he shall continually grow and progress in all virtues, and in the knowledge of truth, before God and before all men.