The first chapter lists the sixteen revelations, describing them in some detail: 1. Jesus’s crowning with thorns, signifying the Trinity and Incarnation and the unity between God and man's soul; 2. the discoloring of Jesus’s face; 3. God's omnipotence; 4. Jesus’s scourging; 5. the devil (“the Fiend”) defeated by Christ's Passion; 6. God rewards the just with gratitude in heaven; 7. alternating experiences of joy and sorrow are a sign that we are protected by the goodness of God; 8. Jesus’s final sufferings and death; 9. Jesus wants us to be comforted and gladdened by his Passion and death; 10. Jesus shows his wounded Sacred Heart; 11. Jesus’s Blessed Mother reveals herself; 12. the Lord is Being in its most noble form; 13. the Lord wants us to see the goodness of creation and of our redemption, assuring us that he will make all things well in the end, and to live by faith in the Church; 14. the Lord is the foundation of our prayers; 15. our suffering and sorrow shall be taken away and we shall enjoy eternal bliss with Jesus in heaven; 16. the Trinity lives in us and protects us, and we shall not be overcome by the devil.