Verses 1-3. Any affections or principles in the soul which have wandered from heavenly order and the life of charity are to be brought back as soon as possible.

Verse 4. Or if the natural mind is falling away from spiritual life, every effort must be made to restore it.

Verse 5. The things favoured by the natural inclination to be kept quite distinct from those known to be right.

Verses 6-7. New ideas and truths appearing in the rational faculty to be appropriated, but the origin of them not to be attributed to self.

Verse 8. The will must not be allowed to relapse from a state of good to one of truth.

Verse 9. Truths derived from other sources to be kept distinct from those of the Church accepted by the soul.

Verses 10-12. The soul cannot be led by good as a primary agent and by truth as a primary agent at the same time as the states derived therefrom are quite distinct.

Verses 13-21. Examination into the affections of the soul as to whether they are good or evil.

Verse 22. Any doctrine which perverts the love of good to the love of evil to be destroyed.

Verses 23-24. To love falsity when tniths are present in the soul is grievous sin, andean only be removed by destruction of the old tendencies of the will.

Verses 25-27. But falsities embraced from inability to understand the truth on account of the external state of the soul are easily removed.

Verses 28-29. Imperfect truths, if believed in, must be acted out, and will then be purified.

Verse 30. To act against the good and truth whereby the soul is born again is profanation.