Table of Chapters
1…..….Overview of spiritual advancement
13…....Grace, sanctifying and actual
18….…The problems of selfishness, sin and evil
28…….Moral and theological virtues,
gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit
48…….Traditional three stages of spiritual
advancement: Purgative, Illuminative, Unitive
76..…..Dark night of the soul, and its necessity
92……..Moral conscience
94……..Prayer and meditation
106……Use of the sacraments
110…...Judgment, Purgatory, Heaven, Hell
120.....Practice of spiritual advancement, evaluation
and management
131……How spiritual advancement might have
proceeded in the absence of original sin
140……Possible future events
in spiritual advancement
162……Moral theology as related to
spiritual advancement
174…….Virgin Mary
183….…Appendices: (1) Spirit, (2) Christology,
(3) Didache
Stages of Spiritual Advancement