Register and contents of this small treatise,

highly conducive to the knowledge of the powers of the human soul and, consequently, of the Creator.

¶ First Image: How the vegetative and sensitive soul relate to the rational soul, just as letters and syllables relate to spoken words. And that they are not for their own sake, but for the sake of the rational soul in man. And how even the rational soul is not for its own sake.

¶ Second Image: Concerning the vegetative soul, how it is pure, in that it is not infected by the sickness of nature—this is original sin the inherent corruption of human nature. Also concerning the augmentative, nutritive, and generative virtues, and what defects were introduced into them by the original fault.

¶ Third Image: Concerning the sensitive soul, to what it leads, and what evil it entails if it refuses to be subject to reason.

¶ Fourth Image: Concerning the common sense, how it relates to the external senses, just as a father relates to children to whom the inheritance has not yet been distributed, which that chapter explains quite beautifully.

¶ Fifth Image: Concerning imagination and fantasy, how they differ, and that they are essentially the same.

¶ Sixth Image: Concerning memory and its follower, reminiscentia recollection, and how recollection is like a semi-alive memory. How the acts of memory relate to the acts of imagination and the estimative faculty is also discussed.

¶ Seventh Image: Concerning the concupiscible and irascible faculties, what good or evil is associated with them, whether they are subject to reason or not.

¶ Eighth Image: Concerning reason, much is discussed beautifully regarding its division and definition.

¶ Ninth Image: Concerning the memory of the rational soul, and it follows regarding those powers in which the image of the ineffable Trinity shines forth. It also speaks most beautifully concerning the mind.