Alphabetical Index — The Mirror of Unusual Questions

Of the memorable matters and opinions which are contained here and there in this book

A

The agate stone remains in fire without injury. 137.
The action of heat upon the bodies of the damned is real and intentional. 136.
A meritorious act in Purgatory. 179.
A proper act exists in its proper potency and matter. 6.
Adam is interpreted as “red earth.” 237.
Adam’s soul existed before his body, perfect in species. 7.
What mystery Adam understood when he slept in that first sleep. 301.
No philosopher could compare himself in knowledge with Adam and Paul. 285.
Why the demon tempted the woman rather than Adam. 527.
Adam was created in grace which makes one pleasing. 292.
The three conditions of the air. 495.
The demons fell in the air for a threefold cause. 485.
The agility of the glorified body is described. 78.
Albert’s opinion concerning the suffrages of the Church which profit the dead. 146.
The Chaldeans invented the alcocoden and the ylech for the deception of human beings. 386.
Alchemists cannot truly transmute the species of metals. 509.
Alexander degenerated from the Peripatetics. 29.
A thing is ordered to an end in two ways. 526.
Ambrose’s golden discourse, that the stars do not liberate a human being. 354.
Angels were created in the Empyrean Heaven. 418.
The crown of the aureole is not owed to angels. 100.
When the angels were created. 417.
Angels neither suffer pain nor grieve. 443.
Angels are not human members with Christ. 450.
Good angels obtain a certain accidental joy from the guardianship of good human beings. 444.
The care of angels for human beings is so great that they never abandon them, even when they are most obstinate. 445.
Angels are deputed to the guardianship of human beings. 426.
What each person ought to say every day to his guardian angel. 428.
Certain temples were consecrated by the ministry of angels. 451.
An angel understands another angel when he turns himself toward the likeness of that angel which he has impressed upon him. 452.
Angels assume bodies united to themselves as movable things formed in this way by divine power. 489.
Angels can alter both senses, the interior and the exterior. 447.
Angels can alter the will. 448.
Angels illuminate the intellect of a human being concerning four things. 449.
An evil angel cannot baptize. 450.
Angels cannot consecrate the body of Christ. 449.
The brief intervals of the angels between creation and the fall. 483.
The angel sinned after the first instant of his creation. 484.
Angels did not possess the four dowries of the glorified body. 79.
Angels are deputed to the guardianship of human beings for four causes. 437.
One of the angels is sufficient for each individual human being. 436.
An angel begins to guard when the creature is born. 437.
And they are given until death. 438.
When the guardianship of angels is withdrawn from a human being. 440.
The reward of angels is twofold. 441.
An angel, and any creature, can sin. 479.
Angels are corporeal and animate. 477.
How one good angel resists another good angel. 458.
An angel operates where he is. 497.
When an angel fails in the guardianship of human beings. 368.
How an angel is defined. 412.
The definition of an angel from Dionysius. 413.
Angels lack matter. 414.
The simplicity of angels. Ibid.
The cognition of an angel is through species naturally connate with it. 414.
The number of angels. 415.
According to its diverse offices, the soul obtains a variety of names. 407.
Why the body is disobedient to the soul. 407.
The soul rules the body in two ways. 409.
When stripped from the body, the soul does not possess the full mode of knowing of separated intellects. 56.
The soul naturally desires to be reunited with the body. Ibid.
It is affected with sadness if it is evil, but with joy if it is good. Ibid.
What causes of sorrow it has. 58.
A more learned soul in heaven is more excellent than a less learned but better soul; nevertheless, it does not enjoy the divine essence better. 406.
Philosophers maintain that souls will at some time return into bodies. 35.
Merit and sin are principally ascribed to the soul. 35.
It is most difficult to know what the soul is. 2.
When a human being is dying, the soul ceases successively to inform the body. 51.
It is not of the essence of God. 4.
It was not created with the angels. 4.
What the soul truly is. 3, 18.
The human soul is not a part of the great soul of the world. 2.
The soul of the world is not God, as Parmenides said. 2.
The soul is created immediately by God. 12, 13.
Plato thought that demons were the souls of human beings. 13.
Souls were not created from the beginning among the other intelligences, nor all at once. 14.
An animal can live even after its heart has been removed. 54.
The soul departing from the body naturally tends upward. 55.
Why the soul of a male is infused into the body after forty days, and not after eighty as in the body of a female. 14.
A soul is found upon the earth to be purged. 170.
The soul cannot be educed from the potency of matter. 9, 12.
It is the act of a physical, organic body. 10.
The souls of those being purged possess consolation from many things together with their affliction. 183.
The immortality of the soul is proved in many ways. 20.
Souls existing in Purgatory are assisted by the works of the living. 194.
The souls of the dead do not take part in the affairs of the living. 268.
The abodes of souls in the lower regions. 224.
A separated soul can suffer from corporeal fire. 129.
That souls in Purgatory can be assisted by the suffrages of the living is proved by the authorities of the saints. 197.
Why the soul is not rendered its reward after separation from the body. 252.
A sleeping soul is more fitted for revelations. 310.
Souls follow bodies. 336. When bodies exercise dominion. 340.
The soul of Christ is full of grace. 421.
The human soul is the lowest species in the genus of intelligences. 56.
Why the soul goes to Purgatory. 213.
The soul is in the blood, that is, it coexists with the blood. 213.
How separated souls know themselves. 272.
Plato’s revolution of years. 36.
Antichrist will have an angel for his guardianship. 435.
A marvelous apparition in favor of Purgatory. 173.
How an apparition of spirits is known, whether it is good or evil. 248.
The marvelous apparition of William de Corvo. Ibid., and 242.
Water drunk with a little wine cools a healthy person more than when drunk alone. 78.
Aristotle maintained that demons do not exist. 469.
The articles of faith cannot be demonstrated. 44.
What Arcturus is. 377.
When an astrologer truly predicts concerning the morals of human beings. 328.
An astrologer cannot make certain predictions and judgments sufficiently concerning future things. 390.
The scope of astrology. 389.
Why astrology is uncertain. 390.
The divination of astrologers concerning the abundance and fertility of a year is frivolous. 243.
The stars are the cause of inferior effects through particular inferior causes as intermediaries. 355.
The stars are causes of longer life according to astronomers. 386.
Whether credence should be given to judgments of the stars 393.
The opinion of astronomers concerning dreams. 304.
The stars signify, but do not cause. 352.
The opinion of Augustine and Thomas concerning the willing of the damned. 257.
Avicenna’s error concerning fire. 126.
The three aureoles. 98, 96.
What an aureole is. 96, 94.
To whom the aureole is owed. 97.

B

One baptized by a good angel is not bound to be rebaptized. 451.
Bede’s opinion concerning the terrestrial Paradise. 225.
Bdellium, a precious stone. 234.
A spiritual war is waged among the angels, but not a corporeal one. 459.
The many kinds of wars. Ibid.
The vision of the blessed. 270.
Beatitude consists in an act of the will according to Scotus. 395.
What beatitude is. 395.
The blessed sometimes appear to the living, and how. 246.
The object of beatitude according to Saint Thomas. 398.
Three dowries are assigned to the blessed in heaven. 72.
Beatitude requires three things. 62.
Who are the very good and the very evil. 143.
The good of human beings is procured through angels. 522.
A good operation requires two things. 432.

C

The Elysian Fields are in the midst of the lower regions, according to the pagans. 223.
The praise of Campania. 243.
The opinion of the canonists concerning indulgences for those who are in Purgatory. 202.
The case of a certain person caught up, declared by the pope. 70.
A marvelous case of a woman vexed by a demon. 473.
The case in Apulia. 171.
The fall of the evil angels was possible. 481.
Flesh is taken for a human being living carnally. 40.
Some feed upon human flesh. 31, 39.
Celestial bodies are not the cause of human acts. 328.
Celestial bodies render a human being suited to the sciences only accidentally. 326.
The existence of the Empyrean Heaven cannot be investigated by human reason. 64.
The Empyrean Heaven is proved by the authorities of the saints. 64.
What it is. Ibid.
How, immediately after it was made, it was filled with angels. 65.
The crystalline heaven. 60.
The aerial heaven divided into seven heavens. 66.
The Empyrean Heaven is not a material body. 66.
Nothing in the world can compel demons except divine power. 539.
The felicity of the Empyrean Heaven. Ibid.
The Empyrean Heaven, the place of the angels. 418.
The better charity is, the more it increases merit. 404.
The more intense charity is, the more blessed it makes a human being in heaven. 407.
The efficacy of charity. 195, 196.
The commandment of charity will be fulfilled in the fatherland. 88, 86.
How charity begins from itself. 26.
Why Christ threatened eternal punishment for sins. 106.
In Christ there is a threefold aureole. 100.
Christ did not have an angel deputed to his guardianship. 434.
How Christ was comforted by an angel in his Passion. 434.
Christ could not sin. 422.
Christ, descending to the lower regions, did not liberate the children, because they did not possess the grace of faith. 220.
Christ, prince of soldiers. 100.
The Christian people are more excellent than every nation. 198.
Christ possessed dowries. 69.
Christ’s brightness in the Transfiguration was miraculous. 80.
Christ’s body did not possess the four dowries. 79.
The brightness of the glorified body can be seen by a nonglorified eye. 80.
Cleombrotus brought about his own death. 261.
The clergy, the praise of Christians. 198.
Cicero’s opinion. 56.
Why the swan is consecrated to Apollo. 26.
The swan is consecrated to Venus. 307.
Morning and evening cognition in the angels. 453.
Cognition occurs according as the thing cognized is in the knower. 286.
How the soul knows itself. 271.
Cognition is threefold. 268.
The choleric are irascible. 336.
The council of jurists and theologians concerning indulgences. 204.
The fourfold degree of conversion into God, or of contemplation. 282.
The heart lives first and dies last. 54.
The heart of a human being who has died from poison always withstands fire without being consumed. 137.
Why the bodies of the damned are never consumed by fire. 136.
A corrupted body can be vivified by divine power. 35.
The body, the prison of the soul. 37.
The conditions of the glorified body. 83, 81.
Aristotle denies that the celestial bodies are animate. 470.
How celestial bodies can act upon the virtues and vices of human beings. 336.
The cause of corruption is matter. 53.
Corruption of the mind is repaired through penance. 98, 96.
The opinion concerning the creation of the first human being. 237.
Venial fault is remitted through the fire of Purgatory. 175.
Every fault not remitted in this life is coeval with its punishment. 354.
How the guardians of souls are always in heaven. 429.
Why a species is not produced in a mirror under a ray of the sun. 91, 89.

D

The passage of the damned. 121.
The number of the damned is greater than that of the saved. 123.
The damned cannot by right reason desire not to exist. 254.
All things are sadness to the damned. 274.
What a demon can do in the generation of a human being. 493, 494.
The bodies of demons are made from condensed air. 493.
And they do not properly exercise the works of life. 494.
A demon can be within natural bodies. 497.
Nevertheless, it cannot penetrate the whole body, nor any part of it. 498.
A demon cannot possess seed. 491.
The operation of demons. 139.
That demons exist is proved in three ways. 472.
The demon familiar to Socrates. 310.
Demons, swift ministers. 516.
The nature of a demon. 521.
A demon ought not to be adored, even if it transforms itself into an angel of light. 495.
There is a twofold kind of evil demons. 477.
Invoked demons answer and come for two reasons. 476.
The definition of demons and their various names. 476.
What it is to sin. 477, 480.
How a demon entered into Judas. 501.
What God is. 289.
It is declared how God wills all human beings to be saved. 111.
The antecedent and consequent will of God. Ibid.
God has fixed the punishment of each soul in Purgatory. 203.
The foreknowledge of God does not impose necessity. 16.
How God reveals his secrets. 280.
God created three kinds of living spirit. 6.
God cooperates toward that which is the good of nature, but not toward the deformity of an act. 15.
No human being can see him by his own power. 85, 83.
It belongs to God alone actively to move the will. 322.
In the formation of Adam’s body, God first formed the body and afterward breathed the soul into it. 20.
Why God permits human beings to be attacked. 522.
Why, after the sin of the first parents, God made a leathern girdle for them. 233.
Mothers of the gods. 491.
The right side is nobler than the left. 231.
The power of the devil: by what bonds it is bound. 457.
The devil, father of lies. 520.
The difference between the sense of touch and the other senses. 135.
The difference between astronomical and necromantic images. 376.
The intervening distance between Abraham’s bosom and hell. 121.
A prohibited divinatory practice. 383.
Those who are accustomed frequently to divine. 277.
How divinations are made, and the threefold manner of speaking. 277.
The pain of the soul is greater than that of the body. 182.
Dominicus Venetus, bishop of Brescia, wrote concerning the suffrages of the Church. 156.
The gift of prophecy is common to the good and the evil. 296.
A dowry differs from beatitude in five respects. 82.
It is a disposition toward beatitude itself. Ibid.
Beyond the dowries three things are required. 85, 83.
Why a dowry is assigned to the bridegroom, and in what manner to the bride 68.
What a spiritual dowry is. 69.
What a dowry is. 67.
And why it is given. 68.
According to the theologians, the dowries in heaven correspond to the three virtues. 74.
The four dowries in the glorified body are adapted to the cardinal virtues.

E

The three kinds of effects. 508.
The effusion of the blood of a murdered human being in the presence of the murderer is to be ascribed to a divine miracle and not to superstition. 546.
The embryo, and what occurs in it. 13.
Beings leading the best life. 412.
Enoch was translated into Paradise. 238.
The translation of Enoch and Elijah into Paradise. 239.
A letter concerning the location of hell, found in the tomb of Dionysodorus. 117.
The error of the Indians concerning Purgatory. 158.
The error of certain persons concerning the resurrection of Christ. 33.
The error of the Sadducees. 411.
What excommunication is. 207.
Why certain persons are excommunicated after death. 208.
Who are to be excommunicated after death. 207.
Examples of Gentiles showing the immortality of the soul. 23, 24.
Examples for showing that the practice of the divinatory art concerning future events is certain. 384.
The ecstasy of a certain devout woman. 302.
Why the demon appeared to Eve in the form of a serpent. 527.
Eve was formed in the terrestrial Paradise. 238.
What good fortune and misfortune are. 364.

F

Fate can be considered in two ways. 346.
The incongruities arising from the admission of fate. 347.
The poetic definition of fate. 338.
Its philosophical definition. 339.
To entrust all things to the fates is not so much uncertain as rash. 349.
What things are subjected to fate and what things are not. 357.
It is read that no fool ever prophesied. 309.
The felicity and fertility of the earth are given according to the merits of human beings 244.
Felicity consists in contemplation. 403.
It is initiatively in the intellect, but completively in the will. 403.
No one is happy in this life. 370.
A figure is not the principle of any natural action. 553.
The fabrications of poets and Gentiles. 505.
What the flame placed between the human being and the terrestrial Paradise after the fall signifies. 192.
The origin and names of the rivers of the Paradise of pleasure. 234.
Fortune as a good goddess, and why she is evil. 362.
It is an accidental cause. 363.
The six Fortunate Islands. 224.
The principal conditions of Fortune are nine. 369.
Where there is more Fortune, there is less wisdom. 370.
A strong imagination causes a fall. 544.
The depiction of Fortune. 360.
What Fortune is. 362.
Separated forms cannot transmute matter. 508.
The opinion of Francis of Meyronnes concerning indulgences. 203.
Fruition is taken in two ways. 397.
Future things can be known in three ways. 548.

G

The joy of angels follows their nature. 442.
There is a threefold kind of saints. 98, 96.
The withdrawal of grace is the privation of the divine vision in the Limbo of children. 216.
The opinion of William of Paris. 381.
How taste exists in heaven. 92, 90.

H

How Emperor Henry tempted God. 523.
The opinion of Henry of Ghent concerning the production of the world from eternity. 51.
The opinion of Henry of Ghent concerning the object of our intellect. 285.
What things make a person a heretic. 514.
The heresy of the Poor of Lyons and of the Waldensians. 158.
A human being is master of his own acts. 348.
When a human being is said to be well or badly fortuned 368.
How a human being is ordered according to the stars, according to the angels, and according to God. 366.
It is not repugnant that some space and interval be granted between a human being’s death and his particular judgment. 60.
The number of human beings. 416.
Human beings are attacked by demons in four ways. 510.
Humor in a human being is twofold. 40.

I

Ignorance does not excuse from sin for a threefold cause. 405.
The fire of hell afflicts souls in four ways. 130.
It is an instrument of divine justice. 131.
As regards the nature of fire, it is the same in species as our fire, in whatever matter it may be found. 133.
It differs, however, from our fire insofar as it is an instrument of divine justice. 134.
The fire of hell differs from the fire of Purgatory in eight ways. 184.
The same fire burns those existing in Purgatory and in hell. 186.
The fire of hell is corporeal. 127.
Fire is supremely active. 190.
Why images are transferred into heaven. 380.
What a strong imagination effects. 373.
What imagination is. 130.
Natural inclination is toward the universal good absolutely. 367.
The trees of India. 351.
How indulgences profit the departed. 149.
Indulgences avail for the living and the dead. 180. They profit in two ways there. 204.
The granting of indulgences depends upon forum and jurisdiction. 205.
Indulgences do not profit the unbaptized. 221.
For indulgences to be valid, a fitting cause is required. 211.
Hell is the largest region. 122.
Hell is explained by many names. 117.
Hell is on the surface of the earth, according to the testimony of Saint Gregory. 118.
After the judgment, the whole elemental region will be hell. 123. And it will be eternal. 124. It has seven prisons. 125.
Hell is in the center of the earth. 114.
The existence of hell is proved by five reasons. 104.
Acuteness of intellect arises from five things. 326.
The case of John of Lignano concerning fate. 342.
Italy is the most excellent of all regions. 243.
The capacity of the intellect is twofold. 291.
Avicenna’s chain of intelligences. 490.
The intelligible exists in the intellect in three ways. 454.
Many questions put to a certain dead person. 50.
The judgment of souls after death is twofold. 58.
In the particular judgment Christ judges through angels. 59.
Jupiter and Venus are beneficent. 387.

L

The opinion of Laurentius Opimus concerning human freedom. 325.
Laurentius the Florentine cast himself into a well. 263.
Vocal praise will exist in the fatherland. 89, 91, 95.
The laws judge that mathematicians are to be expelled from political communities. 384.
Free choice is bound in children and the insane. 317.
What free choice is. 420.
It exists in angels and in God. 420.
In whom free choice is found. 421.
There are three kinds of trees in Paradise. 232.
The Limbo of children and that of the holy fathers differ in four ways. 215.
The power of demons is limited. 503.
There is difficulty among the doctors concerning where hell is. 113.
How exterior speech occurs. 273.
Corporeal speech does not exist in a separated soul. 273.
What mental speech is, and how it exists in a separated soul.
Speech differs from illumination in two ways. 455.
The speech of spirits can occur in four ways. 455.
Local distance does not impede the speech of angels. 456.
Lucretia’s epitaph, which is ascribed to Ovid. 262.
The light of glory is necessary for beatitude. 86, 85.
The Moon makes a human being of duller intellect. 327.

M

The example of Macarius. 153.
Whence the power of the magnet arises 375.
The evil of fault belongs to an act of free choice in two ways. 481.
The opinion of the Manichaeans concerning the terrestrial Paradise. 225.
The resurrection of the Virgin Mary and of John the Apostle was not delayed until the end of the world. 240.
The Virgin Mary has an aureole as the reward of virginity. 97.
The Virgin Mary was assumed into heaven with her body. 467.
Matrimony is a medicinal good. 16.
The Virgin Mary surpassed all the angels in three things. 465.
How the Virgin Mary was placed above all the choirs of angels. 465.
The Virgin Mary is near the deity. 466.
Not everyone who suffers for Christ is a martyr. 98.
Spiritual matrimony between Christ and the soul. 69.
Evildoers are punished by eight kinds of punishments in this world. 140.
Evil things have their place among things, and why they were created. 18.
A physician judges the goodness or depravity of an intellect more certainly than an astrologer. 328.
The observation of physicians in judging illnesses. 554.
One cannot heal without astrology. 330.
A physician should observe the course of the Moon. 331.
Why the medicinal art does not possess perfection. 331.
A physician receives his knowledge from causes very remote. 329.
Melancholics are livid. 338.
It is better to be than not to be. 258.
The reward of the saints is common to all and proper to each. 405.
Accidental merit can exist after this life. 179.
Diversity of merits transfers human beings into different orders of angels. 463.
Human merit is more efficacious than angelic merit. Ibid.
Merit consists in charity. 466.
Many apparitions of the dead are recounted. 247.
Mercury makes a human being endowed with intellect. 327.
What illumination of the mind is. 279.
A marvelous example concerning the soul of King Theodoric. 118.
A miracle is understood in two ways. 534.
Mount Etna in Sicily. 108, 119.
Why the reason of miracles is incomprehensible. 547.
All metals are from sulfur 95, 97.
The manner in which the soul knows. 271.
The manner of receiving indulgences for the departed. 204.
Many writers concerning indulgences are enumerated. 206.
A person is not always dead who by common estimation is held to be dead. 54.
The dead are not to be buried hastily. 54.
A dead person cannot be excommunicated or absolved. 207.
The dead know many of the things that are done here. 268.
Death presents itself in four ways as something to be desired under the aspect of good. 260.
The dead cannot appear to the living. 246.
It is not lawful to inquire into the state of the dying. 253.
The dead in Purgatory are members of the Church Militant. 196.
Many have brought death upon themselves. 262, 263.
How movers do not precede movable things. 417.
Women abound in passions. 293.
Women are not permitted to teach or preach. 293.
That the world began must be held by faith alone. 43.
It was fitting for the world to be produced in time. 44.
What the perfection of the world requires. 411.
That the world always existed cannot be proved demonstratively. 43.

N

Human nature can pass into God. 467.
Nature is governed by the stars. 317.
Whence arises the diversity of those born under the same stars. 353.
Nature does not fail in necessities. 295.
The power of the divine nature does not really differ from its essence. 3.
The folly of Nectanebus the astronomer. 355.
No one grieves concerning that of which he does not know himself to be deprived. 218.
Nothing new was made by God which had not in some manner preceded in the works of the six days. 6.
The nobility and healthfulness of a country are considered with respect to seven things. 241.
Non-being is considered in two ways. 259.
No one is happy in this life. 370.

O

The object of our intellect is the quiddity of a material thing. 285.
What odor is. 93, 90.
Where all things were created together. 418.
Every planet is stronger in its own house than in another’s. 410.
The operation of one avails another in two ways. 198.
The opinion of sorceresses concerning children dying without baptism is rejected. 218.
The opinion of Origen concerning the terrestrial Paradise. 225.
What an oracle is. 279.
Prayer is not made for the unclean, 150, nor for those who kill themselves, 151.
The effects of prayer. 199.
How the Carthusian Order began. 60.
How the tenth order in heaven is to be understood. 462.
The excellence of the east. 241.
Origen’s error concerning hell. 103.
Origen’s error concerning the origin of the soul. 4.

P

The pope can by right dispense all the goods of the Church. 211.
The pope cannot dissipate spiritual things. 211.
If the pope liberated everyone from the punishments of Purgatory, he would act unfittingly. 212.
The pope does two things for those established in Purgatory. 212.
The pope cannot empty all Purgatory. 210.
The pope has jurisdiction in Purgatory. 205.
There are three Fates. 338.
The office of the Fates. Ibid.
Little children in Limbo can possess a twofold cognition concerning beatitude. 217.
Which country is happier. 242.
What names the terrestrial Paradise obtains. 236.
Its circumference is described. 236.
How it is interpreted. 237.
Three opinions concerning the terrestrial Paradise. 227.
What Paradise is. 228.
The terrestrial Paradise is opposed to hell. 115.
Paul’s elevation. 292.
Paul’s ecstasy of mind. 302.
Punishment can be voluntary in three ways. 187.
Eight kinds of the punishments of hell. 138.
The punishments of the damned grow until the day of judgment. 191.
The punishment of Purgatory exceeds the greatest punishments of this life, 181, and is twofold. Ibid.
What the perfect is. 371.
Those existing in Purgatory cannot sin. 159. Nor can they merit. 190.
How venial sins are remitted here and how they are remitted in the future age. 179.
Philosophers hold various opinions concerning the terminus and end of the world. 41.
Examples of philosophers demonstrating that the soul is immortal. 26.
The fictions of philosophers concerning hell. 102.
What philosophers thought concerning the end of the world. 45.
Philosophy possesses great delights. 274.
Three different quantities of years are attributed to each planet. 387.
Plato’s opinion concerning the immortality of the soul. 22.
Plato’s opinion concerning demons. 470.
Many things signify that rain will occur. 16.
Absolute and ordained power are the same in God. 256.
In the fatherland the visual power will see through an act of seeing, by admitting and receiving from the object. 88, 90; 90, 88.
The powers of the soul really differ from its essence. 3.
The reward of the angels. 441.
The image of Perseus in heaven. 378.
Whence prosperity in play arises. 374.
The gift of prophecy is common to the good and the evil. 296.
The preposition ex designates order alone, not a material cause. 50.
The difference between providence and fate. 358.
All things are governed by the providence of God. 349, 354, 365.
All children, whoever they may have been, will rise at the judgment with their bodies at the perfect age. 222.
Children in the maternal womb have a guardian angel. 435.
The conflict of angels is threefold. 457.
Purgatory is in one manner a way and in another manner a terminus. 202.
And it is above the earth. Ibid.
One person is purged more quickly than another. 193.
There are three Purgatories. Ibid.
The passage of Paul to the Corinthians concerning Purgatory is expounded. Ibid.
The place of Purgatory is twofold. 169.
The sins which are found principally in women. 566.
Patrick’s Purgatory. 171.
Purgatory is truly found in the center of the earth. 159.
The Hebrews and certain Greeks denied Purgatory. 157.
One person in Purgatory can be liberated more quickly or more slowly than another. 213.
In Purgatory some sins are remitted as regards fault. 174.
If Purgatory did not exist, sinners would be given an occasion for despair. 161.
Purgatory is proved. 162, 166.
In Purgatory every liability to punishment owed for venial and mortal sin is remitted. 176.
The punishment of Purgatory is more severe than every punishment in the world. 176.
The reward and punishment of separated souls never end. 245.

Q

Four coeval things were created together. 8.
Four places are in the center of the earth. 215.
Four kinds of evil demons. 478.
Four defects of the body arising from the four elements. 76.
Four places of separated souls. 63.
Four roots of all vices. 334.
What Catholics must believe concerning the end of the world. 48.
To ask something of a demon is not to invoke a demon. 549.

R

Raphael Maffei’s opinion concerning the object of our intellect. 286.
Raphael Maffei expounded the canonical epistle of Saint Jude the Apostle. 460.
It is difficult to render causes for individual marvels and unusual things. 545.
Reason imitates nature. 265.
The regions of Purgatory, Limbo, and the bosom of Abraham do not surround one another circularly. 120.
Kingdoms destroyed on account of a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. 331.
How natural things come to life again. 39.
Plato’s renewal at the thirty-six-thousandth year. 38.
The resurrection of bodies is partly natural and partly truly miraculous. 38.
The Catholic opinion concerning the resurrection of the body. 34.
The same one in number who fell will rise. 36.
Rome, the nursling of all lands. 243.
The commendation of the ancient Romans. 266.
Revelations are made more frequently to women for three causes. 292.

S

How much the intercessions of the saints avail for living well. 335.
For whom the sacrifices of the altar are offered, and for whom they are not. 143.
Sanguine persons are beneficent. 336.
When it is lawful to carry the relics of the saints with oneself. 557.
Blood is the seat of the soul. 9.
When blood fails, the operations of the soul fail. 11.
Whether health continued in the morning, interrupted at midday, and restored in the evening is the same. 30.
Saturn and Mars are malevolent. 387.
Science can be understood in two ways. 274.
Scotus’s opinion whether it is preferable to desire not to exist rather than to sin. 263.
Saint Thomas’s opinion concerning the same matter. Ibid.
Scotus’s opinion concerning the necessity of theology. 287.
Scotus’s excellent disproof concerning infernal fire. 127.
There are nine seats of souls in the lower regions. 224.
Seed is understood in three ways. 492.
How the adverb “always” is to be understood. 29.
The exterior senses of the glorified body will be beatified in the fatherland in Christ. 88, 86.
The senses of a human being are deceived in three ways. 515, 517.
How Sibyl is interpreted. 295.
The opinion of Simonides concerning God. 310.
Various stars assigned to different human beings. 342.
Whence Syria is named. 235.
The demon pretends himself to have been captured so that he may capture the human being. 530.
Faith is not to be placed in dreams concerning the dead. 308.
How practitioners of sortilege are to be punished. 560.
Dreams concerning the dead are sometimes sent toward a good end. 308.
Enigmatic and unclear dreams arise from many causes. 310.
The definition of sleep according to the philosophers. 297, 303.
How it is caused. Ibid.
Universal sleep. 300.
Partial sleep is threefold. Ibid.
Adam’s sleep was sent by God. 301.
Three kinds of human beings dream and divine well. 312.
Those who interpret dreams best and most skillfully. 312.
The difference among dreams, visions, and oracles. 315.
It happens in four ways that future things are predicted through dreams. 316.
Dreams are introduced into the living in two ways. 306.
Galen’s dream. Ibid.
How the saints used lots. 562, 565.
The cause of dreams is twofold in general. 303.
A dream was sent to Socrates. 307.
A spirit can move bodies in two ways. 499, 501.
When the bridegroom is the abductor of the girl. 72.
The living can inquire into the state of someone after death. 253.
The star which appeared to the three Magi, and its motion. 393.
According to the opinion of Saint Thomas, the suffrages of the Church do not profit the departed absolutely. 148.
Suffrages profit the damned in two ways. 144.
Concerning the superstition of images in heaven. 380.
The pride of the devil was the cause why Michael fought with the dragon. 460.
To inspect an astrolabe is superstitious and a sin. 556.
Solomon performed exorcisms. 543.
The saints used lots. 562.
Lots engender dangers. Ibid.
Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar knew future things through dreams. 563.
Matthias the Apostle was chosen by lot. 562.

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There is an intermediate time between two instants insofar as time is continuous. 485.
Palpable darkness. 138.
Theology is necessary. 286, 290.
Why theology cannot be acquired from natural things. 287.
The theologians’ response concerning fate. 355.
The theologians’ definition of fate. 356.
Thomas concerning the Most Holy Trinity. 464.
Thomas’s opinion as to why theology is necessary. 288.
Fear cannot exist in the fatherland. 446.
The Tiber was first called the Albula. 235.
Trajan’s soul was not deputed to hell by a final sentence. 245.
How Trajan was recalled to life by the prayers of Blessed Gregory. 153.
The definition of fate by Trismegistus and Apuleius. 39.
The threefold cause why the demon procures our evils to his own harm. 573.
The kind of future things is threefold. 530.
The kind of signs in the Paradise of Pleasure is threefold. 232.
Three things are required for perfect temptation. 523.
Separate forms cannot transmute matter. 508.
Christ’s miraculous Transfiguration. 80.
The limit of human life is called the heel. 577.
It is lawful to use lots in three ways. 564.
Four things must be guarded against in suspending divine words from the neck. 557.
Four things are to be attended to, lest someone incur superstition. 557.
The observation of times is threefold. 554.
When observing a time is not a sin. 554.
The observation of time is sometimes one of piety. 554.
Times ought to be observed in cases of illness. 555.

V

The heresy of the Waldensians. 194.
Knowledge of truth is delightful to all. 218.
The immortal worm. 138.
A victory is called great for a twofold reason. 97.
The false opinion of Vigilantius. 194.
The rational cognitive power is not subject to the stars. 325.
The damned now see the glory of the blessed universally; after the judgment, they will not be able to think about it there. 275.
The order and connection of the natural power in a human being. 281.
Virginity of the flesh cannot be repaired. 98, 96.
Virginity is connatural to an angel. 462.
What a vision is. 279.
The vision of God is twofold. 72.
Violence cannot be perpetual. 36.
Whence the diversity of vices and virtues arises. 382.
Wine is more penetrating than water. 78.
Wine returned from vinegar into wine is not the same wine. 33.
When it is lawful to use natural things for healing. 553.
Each thing is moved by the cause proximate to it. 322.
The demon used the Hebrew tongue when tempting the first parents. 528.
The human will always remains free. 325.
Something is called voluntary in two ways. 188.
The three operations of the will. 400.
The use of duels is altogether prohibited. 559.
The living can make satisfaction to God for the dead. 195.
The corporeal eye cannot see spiritual things. 573.
The error of the Waldensians. 158.
Where there is more fortune, there is less wisdom. 370.
How the stars can act in the virtues and vices of human beings. 336.
The swan is consecrated to Venus. 307.
The prayers of the saints avail toward living well. 335.
Praise of the ancient Romans. 266.
How natural things can be vivified. 37.
One person in Purgatory can be liberated more quickly than another. 213.
An imaginary vision appears only to those to whom the vision is made. 576.
Paul’s vision. 576.
Old women who practice sortilege. 543.
Valerius Maximus’s account concerning miracles. 534.
Vulcan is the god of fire. 119.

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Christ is the prince of soldiers. 100.
Christ was comforted by an angel in his Passion. 434.
Christ did not have an angel deputed to guard him. 434.
Christ had the threefold aureole. 100.
Why Christ threatened sinners with eternal punishment. 106.
Christ could not sin. 422.
How Christ had the dowries of a glorified body. 79.
Christ, descending to the lower regions, did not liberate the children, and why. 220.

Z

The signs of the Zodiac. 381.