Chapter 8: "The Unsent Letter: David Hume's My Own Life" (pages 108-119);
Chapter 9: "The Consolations of History: Condorcet's A Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind" (pages 120-135);
Chapter 10: The Heart of a Heartless World: Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto" (pages 136-152);
Chapter 11: "War and Consolation: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address" (pages 153-166);
Chapter 12: Songs on the Death of Children: Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder" (pages 167-183);
Chapter 13: "The Calling: Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic" (pages 183-197);
Chapter 14: "The Consolations of Witness: Anna Akhmatova, Primo Levi, and Miklos Radnoti" (pages 198-211);
Chapter 15: "To Live Outside Grace: Albert Camus' The Plague" (pages 212-229);
Chapter 16: "Living in Truth: Vaclav Havel's Letters to Olga" (pages 230-242);
Chapter 17: "The Good Death: Cicely Saunders and the Hospice" (pages 243-255);
"Epilogue" (pages 256-261);
"Notes and Further Reading" (pages 263-276);
"Index" (pages 277-284).
Now, when I was in the Jesuit order in the Roman Catholic Church (1979-1987), I made a 30-day directed retreat in silence (except for the daily conferences with the retreat director), following the terse instructions in the Spiritual Exercises of Spanish Renaissance mystic St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Jesuit order (known formally as the Society of Jesus - abbreviated as S.J.).
The most scholarly edition in English is The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation, Based on Studies in the Language of the Autography by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. (Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1951), which includes a useful "Index" with references to the standardized numbers of the paragraphs in the text (pages 199-216).
St. Ignatius Loyola was a Basque soldier. He was wounded in battle in Pamplona. Carried to his Loyola family home on a stretcher, he subsequently during his recovery experienced a protracted religious conversion. After he had recuperated enough to walk about, his ongoing religious conversion took him to multiple spiritual directors - who represent a kind of living oral tradition of spiritual direction. Eventually, after significant mystical experiences, he pulled together the best of what he had learned from his intense religious experiences in the book of instructions now known as the Spiritual Exercises. No doubt it contains much that he had learned from different spiritual directors in their living oral tradition of spiritual direction.
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