A Letter of Private Direction [antikvár]

Y INTRODUCTION My friend Timothy: whenever you apply yourself, by the impulse of grace, to the practical exercise of your dark contemplation, be intent on abandoning with an intense, intelligent and loving contrition both your bodily senses . . . and your spiritual faculties also — those which are called your intellectual operations, and all those things outside yourself which can be known by any of your five bodily senses, and all those things within you which can be known by your spiritual faculties And in so far as it is possible (for me to speak of this and for you to understand), be intent on ascending with me under the impulse of this grace, in a way that you can never comprehend, to be made one with him who is above every substance and every kind of knowledge. For it is by passing beyond yourself and all other things, and so purifying yourself of all worldly, carnal and natural love in your affection, and of everything that can be known according to its own proper form in your intellect; it is in this way, when all things are done away 7 t ! }• ' ' 'i ,'. , I • ft-'' i; J, • ^ 5