CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
FOREWORD
LECTURE 1 Good Life or Long Life?
LECTURE 2 Of the mode and location of death: does it matter?
LECTURE 3 On holding the hour of your death continually before your eyes
LECTURE 4 Of the seductiveness of tomorrow
LECTURE 5 On how to look on the past in a more diligent manner
LECTURE 6 On how to look on the past whose contemplations might lead unto pride
LECTURE 7 On looking unto the future whose contemplations will advance the soul
LECTURE 8 Of a man’s first encounter with death on a dark night and its relentless opposition to take him into timeless space
LECTURE 9 Of a discourse between a servant and a departed soul on a dark night.
LECTURE 10 Of how a man ought to put his house in order if he would die a happy death.
LECTURE 11 Of Folly and Wisdom
LECTURE 12 On how to dispose of heavy possessions before death
LECTURE 13 On how to get on top of Moriah’s Mount without any hindrance: The Abraham’s Pattern
LECTURE 14 Of how I lost my own mother though she still lives
LECTURE 15 Of the diverse means death can be procured
LECTURE 16 Of those deaths that are procured with vain appetite and lifestyle and how they are wrongly charged on Providence
LECTURE 17 Of practices and lifestyles that shorten existence and how they can be remedied to promote survival
LECTURE 18 On what diseases are & how they ought to be handled to preserve life
LECTURE 19 Of the two types of sorrows (Godly and worldly) and what they work in us.
LECTURE 20 Of why many suffer shock and emotional torture upon hearing the news concerning the death of a loved and of why some even die in the process
LECTURE 21 Of the Divide-and-Conquer algorithm
LECTURE 22 Of the usefulness of the Divide- and-Conquer algorithm in partitioning sorrows
LECTURE 23 Of the diverse ways we behold ourselves: the uses of mirrors
LECTURE 24 Of the Body after the departure of the soul
LECTURE 25 Of the soul after living the body
LECTURE 26 Of how that nature calls on every man to rest his substance after a ‘tiring earth’s - life’
LECTURE 27 Of how that death handles not all men alike.
LECTURE 28 Of the usefulness of tears and of why we ought not to sorrow as them without hope.
LECTURE 29 Of the Prerequisite of a happy death: of knowing Jesus, of surrendering to His Lordship and of accepting Him as Saviour.
LECTURE 30 Of how that every man ought to be a Worshipper if He would die a happy death.
LECTURE 31 My final prayer of devotion to God
LETTERS
LETTER 1 Is not death a Happy moment? Tell me , brother, tell me.
LETTER 2 Of the uses of suffering: Words of Comfort from Soeur Thérèse to her Sister Céline.
LETTER 3 Of the Usefulness of Silence and Solitude
LETTER 4 Of how my burial should be performed.
LETTER 5 Of my favorite Hymns and the six that should be sung at my burial.