[SUPPLEMENT—QUESTION LXXII
OF THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS WHO ARE IN HEAVEN]
[QUESTION CLXXIX
OF THE DIVISION OF LIFE INTO THE ACTIVE AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE]
[QUESTION CLXXX
OF THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE]
[QUESTION CLXXXI
OF THE ACTIVE LIFE]
[QUESTION CLXXXII
OF THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ACTIVE AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE]
[QUESTION CLXXXVI
ON THE RELIGIOUS STATE]
[INDEX OF TEXTS QUOTED OR EXPLAINED]
INTRODUCTION
The pages which follow call for little introduction. S. Thomas has left us no formal treatise on Mystical Theology, though his teachings on this subject have been collected from his various works and combined to form such a treatise. Especially noteworthy is the work of the Spanish Dominican Valgornera.[2] No such synthesis has been attempted here. We have simply taken from the Summa Theologica the treatises on Religion, on Devotion, Prayer, and the Contemplative Life, and presented them in an English dress. When occasion offered we have added to each portion appropriate passages from S. Augustine, S. Thomas's master, and more rarely from the Commentary on the Summa by the illustrious Cardinal Cajetan.