St. Bonaventure - Hexaemeron

I.  Collations on the Six Days

A.  Contents

II.  First Collation

1.  On the Qualities Required of Hearers of the Divine Word, and on Christ as the Center of All Knowledge

a.  Evils That Dispose Badly

b.  Begin with Christ the Medium and Mediator

c.  7 Dim of Px: Essence, Nature, Distance, Doctrine, Moderation, Justice, Concord

1)  Essence

2)  Nature

3)  Distance

4)  Doctrine

5)  Moderation

6)  Justice

7)  Concord

III.  Second Collation

A.  On the Fullness of Wisdom in Which Speech Must End, That Is: on the Door of Wisdom and its Beauty

IV.  Third Collation

A.  Keys: Understanding the Word

1.  First Key & Door: Uncreated Word

a.  Word Creates a Soul, is Not Changed, But in Eternity He is Saying It is to Be Created Now

b.  Word is Truth

2.  Second Key: Incarnate Word

a.  Preeminent

b.  Awareness

c.  Acceptable

d.  Victorious

e.  Generous

f.  Just

3.  Third Key: Inspired Word - Vision

V.  Fourth Collation

A.  First Treatise on the First Vision, Which is by Means of Understanding Naturally Given

1.  God Said to See Because Because He Makes Us See

2.  Truth is the Light of the Soul

3.  Six Ways of Dividing

a.  Substance and Accident

b.  Universal and Particular

c.  Potency and Act

d.  One and the Many

e.  Simple and Composite

f.  Cause and Caused

VI.  Fifth Collation

A.  Second Treatise on the First Vision, Concerning the Third Radiation, That is the Moral Truth, and Concerning the Truth of Contemplation

B.  Good Habits

1.  Temperance

2.  Munificence

3.  Fortitude

4.  Kindness

5.  Magnanimity

C.  Acts of Righteousness

1.  Form of Common Life

2.  Proper Rule of Leadership

D.  Light Separated from Darkness

1.  Animal Potency

VII.  Sixth Collation

A.  Third Treatise on the First Vision, Concerning the First Exemplary Cause of the Virtues, and the Exemplary and Cardinal Virtues Flowing from It

1.  Philosophers Following Darkness

2.  Eternal Light, Examplar of All Things

3.  Cardinal Virtues

a.  Temperance

b.  Prudence

c.  Fortitude

d.  Justice

4.  Virtues Correspond To:

a.  Four Principal Effects of Light

b.  Four Properties of the Elements

c.  Four Actions of the Causes

d.  Four Conditions of a Healthy Life

5.  Plotinus: 4 Categories

a.  Political Virtues

b.  Cleansing

c.  Simply and Purely Washed of Every Stain of This World

d.  Exemplary

VIII.  Seventh Collation

A.  Fourth Treatise on the First Vision, Concerning the Threefold Defect of Virtues Among Philosophers, And, Later, Concerning Healing, Rectifying and Ordinating Faith

B.  Some Philosophers Attacked Ideas

1.  Aristotle

2.  Presupposed the Existence of the Cardinal Virtues

3.  These Virtues First Have Three Operations

a.  Assured Eternity

b.  Perfect Peace

c.  Affective Dispositions Must Be Straightened

d.  Affective Dispositions Must Be Healed

e.  Medicine: the Grace of the Holy Spirit

f.  Biblical Metaphors

IX.  Eighth Collation

A.  On the Second Vision, That Is, on Understanding Lifted Up by Faith first Treatise, Concerning the Scope of Faith

X.  Ninth Collation

A.  Second Treatise on the Second Vision, Concerning the Threefold Firmness of Faith

B.  Uncreated Word

C.  Incarnate Word

D.  Inspired Word

E.  Holy Spirit

F.  This Firmness Arises out of Four Elements

1.  Assured Knowledge

2.  Outstanding Reputation

3.  Full Accord of the Witnesses

4.  Solid Opinion of the Witnesses

G.  A Threefold Flow out of This Light

XI.  Tenth Collation

A.  Third Treatise on the Second Vision, Which Begins to Deal with the Splendor of Faith

B.  Brightness of Faith

1.  Pre-existent Truth

2.  Efficient

3.  Restoring

4.  Perfecting

C.  First Object of Speculation is the Fact That God is

1.  Going from the Posterior to the Prior, from the Inferior to the Higher, from the Temporal to the Aeviternal, and from the Aeviternal to the Eternal

2.  Order of Origin

3.  Order of Fulfillment

XII.  Eleventh Collation

A.  Fourth Treatise on the Second Vision, Which is the Second on the Splendor of Faith and Deals with the Vision of God's Trinity

B.  [augustine] Presupposes Twelve Conditions

C.  Origin

D.  Order

E.  Indivision

F.  Actual

G.  Complete

H.  Final

I.  Fourth Diffusion is by Reason of Love

1.  Diffusion

2.  Expression

3.  Propagation

XIII.  Twelfth Collation

A.  Fifth Treatise on the Second Vision, Which is the Third on the Splendor of Faith and Deals with God as the Exemplar of All Things

B.  Exemplar of All Things

1.  Creation Comes Forth Through Art

2.  Governing Leader

3.  Teacher

4.  Justice

XIV.  Thirteenth Collation

A.  On the Third Vision, Through Understanding Instructed by Scriptures. First Treatise, Concerning the Spiritual Meanings of Scriptures

B.  Spiritual Meanings

C.  Divisions of the Canon

XV.  Fourteenth Collation

A.  Second Treatise on the Third Vision, Which Begins to Deal with the Sacramental Figures of Scripture, and Then with the Twelve Principal Mysteries Pointing to Christ

1.  Vegetation on Earth is Alive, Generous, and Lovely

2.  Scripture Was Handed Down for Four Reasons

3.  Christ is Symbolized Especially by Means of Sight, Sign, Word, and Occurrence

4.  These are the Forty-eight Boards of the Dwelling

XVI.  Fifteenth Collation

A.  Third Treatise on the Third Vision, Which, Continuing the Preceding One, First Demonstrates How the Antichrist Also is Shown in the Twelve Principal Mysteries

1.  How the Antichrist Also is Shown in the Twelve Principal Mysteries

a.  Creation of Beings

b.  Punishment of Crimes

c.  Calling of the Fathers

d.  Giving of the Law

e.  Crushing of Enemies

f.  Establishment or Promotion of Judges

g.  Anointing of Kings

h.  Revelation of Prophets

i.  Restoration of Princes

j.  Redemption of Mankind

k.  Diffusion of Charismatic Gifts

l.  Opening of Scriptures

2.  Trinity Must Shine Forth

B.  Mystical Body of Christ Has Six Ages

C.  Numerology of Ot and Nt

XVII.  Sixteenth Collation

A.  Fourth Treatise on the Third Vision, Which Continues to Deal with the Theories Growing out of Scriptures, and a Certain Relationship of the Fruits in Corresponding Times

XVIII.  Seventeenth Collation

A.  Fifth Treatise on the Third Vision, Which is Concerned with the Theories of Scripture Signified by the Fruits

B.  Sustainment of the Intellect

1.  For the Soul is a Paradise in Which Scripture is Planted

2.  Intellectual Refreshment

3.  Scripture Enlightens

a.  It is Dangerous to Go Too Far Away from the House of Scripture

XIX.  Eighteenth Collation

A.  Sixth Treatise on the Third Vision, Which is Concerned with the Theories of Scripture Signified by the Fruits, in Particular How They Sustain the Affective Dispositions.

1.  Scripture Sustains the Affective Dispositions

2.  Danger of Inquisitiveness, Knowledge Only

3.  From These Twelve [enlightenments] a Threefold Fruit

a.  Fruit of Grace

b.  Righteousness

c.  Wisdom

d.  All Considerations Return to Christ.

e.  From Charity, There are the Twelve Charismatic Gifts

XX.  Nineteenth Collation

A.  Seventh and Last Treatise on the Third Vision, Which is Concerned with the Right Way and the Right Reason by Which the Fruit of Scripture is Perceived, That Is, How Wisdom is Attained Through Knowledge and Holiness.

1.  How Wisdom is Attained Through Knowledge and Holiness

2.  Order

a.  Begin with Capacity to Understand, with Literal Sense of Ss

b.  Danger in Original Writings [of the Saints]: a Beauty Which Scripture Does Not Have

c.  Still Greater Danger in Going Down to the Summas of the Masters

d.  Philosophy Implies the Greatest Danger

3.  Assiduity

4.  Satisfaction

5.  Good Measure

6.  Anyone Who Wishes to Obtain Advantages from His Studies Should Be Holy and Should Work

a.  Reverent

b.  Religious

c.  Pure

d.  Edify

7.  Fruit of Wisdom or Zeal

a.  Recognition of One's Inner Defects

b.  Control of the Passions

c.  Ordaining of Thoughts

d.  Elevation of Desire

XXI.  Twentieth Collation

A.  First Treatise on the Fourth Vision, That of Understanding Suspended Through Contemplation, the Threefold Object of This Contemplation, That Is, with the Contemplation of the Heavenly Hierarchy, the Church Militant

B.  Only That Soul Can Be Suspended in Contemplation Which Has the Sun and the Moon and the Stars in its Firmament.

1.  Splendid Consideration of the Heavenly Monarchy

2.  Purity

a.  In Eternal Wisdom There is a Principle of Fecundity Tending to the Conceiving, the Bearing and the Bringing Forth

b.  Contemplative Souls are Called the Daughters of Jerusalem, Because They are Beautiful and Fruitful

3.  Brilliance of a Life-giving Fire

a.  Intellect is in Darkness, for It is Unable to Seek Since the Matter Transcends Every Power of Search

4.  Delicious Aspects of the Church Militant

a.  Symbolical

1)  Church like the Moon

2)  Well-ordered Refulgence

5.  Hierarchized Human Mind -stars

a.  Constant

b.  Beautiful

c.  Joyful

XXII.  Twenty-first Collation

A.  Second Treatise on the Fourth Vision, Which is Particularly Concerned with the First Object of the Intelligence Suspended in Contemplation, the Heavenly Hierarchy.

B.  Essential Properties Appropriated according to This Number Nine

1.  Originating Principle

a.  Medium That Governs All Things

b.  Beatifying Principle

c.  Origin of Monarchy

d.  Presiding with Supreme Fortitude

e.  Tends His Flock with Supreme Sweetness

2.  Distinction according to the Integrity of the Hierarchy

a.  Knowledge

b.  Sacred Power

c.  Memory Receives, the Intelligence Speculates, and the Will is United

XXIII.  Twenty-second Collation

A.  Third Treatise on the Fourth Vision Which Deals Specifically with the Second Object of This Vision, the Consideration of the Church Militant, and Also with the Third

B.  Exterior

1.  Discerning Investigation, Discerning Selection, Judgment Which is Found in Execution

C.  Interior

1.  Disciplined Chastizing

2.  Disciplined Strengthening

3.  Disciplined Calling

D.  Superior

E.  Warning

XXIV.  Twenty-third Collation

A.  Fourth Treatise on the Fourth Vision, Which Continues to Deal with the Third Object of This Vision, Which is the Hierarchized Soul.

XXV.  Epilogue