[III. Does the Contemplative Life comprise many Acts?]
S. Augustine, Of the Perfection of Human Righteousness, viii. 18
Ep., cxxx. ad probam

[IV. Does the Contemplative Life consist solely in the Contemplation of God, or in the Consideration of other Truths as well?]
S. Augustine, Sermon, CLXIX., xiv. 17
Ep., cxxx. ad probam

[V. Can the Contemplative Life attain, according to the State of this Present Life, to the Contemplation of the Divine Essence?]
S. Augustine, Of the Sermon on the Mount, II., ix. 35

[VI. Is the Act of Contemplation rightly distinguished according to the three kinds of Motion—Circular, Direct, and Oblique?]

[VII. Has Contemplation its Joys?]

[VIII. Is the Contemplative Life lasting?]
S. Augustine, Sermon, cclix., On Low Sunday

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Is the Contemplative Life wholly confined to the Intellect, or does the Will enter into it?

S. Gregory the Great says[316]: "The contemplative life means keeping of charity towards God and our neighbour, and fixing all our desires on our Creator." But desire and love belong to the affective or appetitive powers; consequently the contemplative life is not confined to the intellect.