19 January 2021
The
Contemplation of God
Furthermore, while
the soul is withdrawn from everything and is turned within, the eye of
contemplation is opened and sets itself up a ladder by which it can pass to the
contemplation of God. By this contemplation the soul is set on fire for eternal
things by the heavenly and divine good things it experiences, and views all the
things of time from a distance and as if they were nothing. Hence when we
approach God by the way of negation, we first deny him everything that can be
experienced by the body, the senses and the imagination, secondly even things
experienceable by the intellect, and finally even being itself in so far as it
is found in created things. This, so far as the nature of the way is concerned,
is the best means of union with God, according to Dionysius.
Saint Albert the
Great (c. 1206-1280)
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