God: God alone, 92, 247; in what sense we "adjure" Him in our prayers, 148; by prayer we become His beggars, 79, 110; He is not changed by our prayers, 86, 107; does not need our external acts of religion, 43, 46; His foreknowledge involves no compulsion, 72; His goodness is a reason for prayer, 107, 149; His Holiness is a reason for prayer, 147; the harmony of Divine things, 158, 159; He knows beforehand what we seek, 80, 161; He knows the heart, 157; the majesty of God, 189; the Patience of God, 130; we do not pray to Him alone, 80-84; He does not always hear our prayers, 142, 143; why He wishes us to pray, 74, 86, 107, 138; He does not profit by our service, 43; on seeking after God, 54, 134, 179, 180, 183, 192; He is the First Principle, 180; the Ultimate End, 182; ultimate union with Him, 109, 191; union with Him, 69, 208; we can hope for it, 240; hindrances to it, 103, 104; the Vision of God, 153, 155, 163, 172, 177, 180, 181. _Cf. s.v._ Beatific Vision; the Antecedent Will of God, 163 _Greeks, On the Errors of the_, St. Thomas's treatise on, 14 Gregory the Great, St.: on Lia as the type of the Active Life, 222, 225, 234, 242, 246; of Martha and Mary as types of the Active and the Contemplative Life respectively, 174; on attention at prayer, 126; on the intercession of the Angels, 165; on the conformity of the Angels to God's Will, 167; how the prayers of the Saints avail, 167; that the Contemplative Life is occupied with God alone, 180, 184, 192; that contemplation in this life does not attain to the Divine Essence, 199, 200; that contemplation excludes all images, 201; of St. Benedict's vision, 202; on the true sweetness of contemplation, 210; contemplation springs from and leads to love of God, 212; on the combats of the Contemplative Life, 212; that knowledge of God brings about the death of all carnal desires, 213; of the joys of the spiritual life, 215, 216; on disgust for spiritual things 215, 216; of the Active Life, 221, 225; on teaching as falling under the Active Life, 226; as due to contemplation, 227; that the Active Life passes away, not so the Contemplative Life, 229; of the Contemplation of the Angels, 231; on the instability of our present contemplation, 232, 243; of the merits of the Contemplative Life, 240, 241; that those who are Superiors can still practise the Contemplative Life, 236; that the Active Life precedes the Contemplative, 224, 245, 249; of zeal for souls, 243, 244; of the necessity of the Active Life, 250; _contemplata aliis tradere_, 254; that the Blessed in Heaven know our needs, 82; not all are called to the Contemplative Life, 251, 252 Gregory of Nyssa, St., of joys and sorrows, 64 Gregory X., Pope, 14 Guidonis, Bernard, 6 Habits, 35, 251 Harmony of Divine things, 158, 159 Harmony of reason, the, 183