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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION, WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF ST. IGNATIUS, CALLED THE TEN ADDITIONS. Meditation consists in calling to mind some dogmatic or moral truth, and reflecting on or discussing this truth according to each one-s capacity, so as to move the will and produce in us amendment. Thus, if you...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION, WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF ST. IGNATIUS, CALLED THE TEN ADDITIONS. Meditation consists in calling to mind some dogmatic or moral truth, and reflecting on or discussing this truth according to each one-s capacity, so as to move the will and produce in us amendment. Thus, if you have to meditate on the sin of the angels, you will call to mind how they, having disobeyed their Creator, forfeited grace and were cast out of heaven into hell. You will then reflect attentively on this suhject, so as to feel confounded by and blush at the multitude of your sins, compared to this one single sin which ruined the rebel angels. In fine, you will conclude that you have often merited the same punishment as they, since you too have so often sinned. To meditate usefully, observe well the following rules: Before Meditation. 1. The subject should be divided into two or three points, that the meditation may be rendered more easy by a division which is natural and easy to remember. 2. Before beginning, we must by a preparatory prayer beg of God by His grace to direct all the powers and operations of our souls to His service and glory alone. 3. The heart having taken this proper and gene- ous resolution, the faithful soul must impress the subject proposed on the mind, the imagination, and the will. If the subject of the meditation is a history, ?for example, that of the Prodigal Sou, ?the 'memory must recall the principal facts. This is the first prelude as generally used, particularly during the second and following weeks. The imagination seizes its object by placing it in a certain spot which the mind represents to itself. This has caused the name of composition of place to be given to the second prelude. If the meditation is on some visi...