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501 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | whole, sees as a whole, ~and exercises all his other senses as
502 Pref, Intro,Intro | If we distinguish between existential and qualitative identity, ~
503 MendicantVision, 2,10 | beauty and delight do not exit apart from proportion, and
504 Pref, Intro,Intro | also of certain passages in Exodus and Isaiah in which details
505 Pref, Intro,Intro | purposes, and not to be expected to exist in anything other ~
506 MendicantVision, 2,8 | salubrious and satisfying, and expelling all lack in the apprehending
507 Pref, Intro,Intro | the most simple sensory experiences. If Messrs. Doe and Roe
508 Pref, Intro,Intro | though when he came to explain how lower orders emanated
509 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | XXII, 25-27, where each is explained. Since ~they are somewhat
510 Pref | in a while have inserted explanatory words and phrases ~in square
511 Pref, Intro,Intro | knowledge, the question of why exploration is pushed into fields which ~
512 MendicantVision, 6,7 | If then ~the image is an express likeness when our mind contemplates
513 MendicantVision, 6,2 | in which all things ~are expressed, and as Gift, in which all
514 MendicantVision, 3,6 | which gives us the power of expression; ~logic, which gives us
515 MendicantVision, 3,2 | whose ~indivisible present extends to all times. From the second
516 MendicantVision, 3,6 | third, natures, powers, and extensive operations. Therefore the
517 Pref, Intro,Intro | properties of numbers, finding it extraordinary that there ~are four Gospels,
518 MendicantVision, 2,5 | the senses are pained by extremes and delight in ~the mean.
519 Pref, Intro,Intro | The difficulty with the extremists who maintained that either
520 MendicantVision, 7,6 | II Cor., 12, 9]; ~let us exult with David, saying, "For
521 MendicantVision, 6,4 | look toward each, their faces being ~turned toward the
522 Pref, Intro,Intro | century, for the attempt would fail. But similarly one would
523 MendicantVision, 7,6 | flesh and my heart hath ~fainted away; Thou art the God of
524 MendicantVision, 1,10 | rationally or believes faithfully or contemplates intellectually. ~
525 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | mirror, lest by chance you fall into the lower pit of shadows
526 MendicantVision, 4,2 | since, when anyone lies fallen, he must remain there prostrate ~
527 MendicantVision, 2,11 | as if we had two wings falling to our feet, we can determine
528 MendicantVision, 4,2 | give a helping hand and he falls in order to rise again ~[
529 Pref, Intro,Intro | words, ~could be true or false. If you believed in one
530 Pref | first time would do well to familiarize themselves with Giotto's
531 Pref, Intro,Intro | still larger orders and families, until we come to the class ~
532 MendicantVision, 1,12 | believe that ~the ages are fashioned by the Word of Life [Hebr.,
533 MendicantVision, 3,3 | created beings unless it be favored by ~the understanding of
534 MendicantVision, 1,1 | heart rejoice that ~it may fear Thy name" [Ps., 85, 11].~ ~ ~
535 MendicantVision, 4,8 | head, the sister, and ~the fellow-heir; made nonetheless the temple
536 Pref, Intro,Intro | the saints seem to have felt such an intimate relationship ~
537 MendicantVision, 5,7 | highly infinite ~and most fertile in efficacy.~ ~ ~
538 MendicantVision, 1,1 | of tears, aided only ~by fervent prayer. Thus prayer is the
539 MendicantVision, 3,1 | mind loves itself most ~fervently. Nor could it love itself
540 MendicantVision, 7,6 | the man kindles it in ~the fervor of His burning Passion,
541 MendicantVision, 3,3 | because then it would be a fiction if it were not ~in the world
542 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Tuscany, was born Giovanni di Fidanza in 1221. ~He entered the
543 MendicantVision, 5,2 | 18, 19]. Damascenus ["De fide orthodox.," 1, 9] therefore,
544 Pref, Intro,Intro | trivial example from ~another field, we could prove that a person
545 MendicantVision, 2,3 | something aerial, something fiery or warm, as ~appears in
546 Pref, Intro,Biograph | and in the short space of ~fifteen years rose to be seventh
547 MendicantVision, 1,15 | account the whole world will fight against ~the unwise [Prov.,
548 Pref, Intro,Intro | scientific. Thus we have had such figurative terms as ~"affinity" in
549 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | blood ~we are purged of the filth of vice, do I first invite
550 Pref, Intro,Intro | the properties of numbers, finding it extraordinary that there ~
551 MendicantVision, 1,7 | the Creation, man was made fit for the repose of contemplation, ~
552 MendicantVision, 5,3 | the unity of His essence, fix your gaze upon Being itself, ~
553 MendicantVision, 7,6 | not light, but the wholly flaming fire which will bear you
554 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | of one's heart, ~and by a flash of apprehension by which
555 MendicantVision, 2,10 | judicial ~number from which flow the uttered numbers out
556 Pref, Intro,Intro | did. Even in the "Little Flowers" of Saint Francis, only
557 MendicantVision, 4,7 | as with ~wings opened for flying which hold the middle place -
558 Pref, Intro,Intro | maintain that the conclusion followed from the ~premises, but
559 Pref, Intro,Intro | thinkers as Hegel and his ~followers seemed to have taken that
560 Pref, Intro,Intro | philosophical work, there is a fondness for ~what we call Nature
561 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | do to write vestiges or footprints, and traces is not much
562 Pref, Intro,Intro | of knowledge. We are not forced ~to know about things; we
563 MendicantVision, 5,2 | The first way first and foremost signifies Him in Being itself,
564 MendicantVision, 3,2 | receiving it, the future by foreseeing it. It retains the ~simple,
565 MendicantVision, 7,6 | God that is my portion ~forever [Ps. 72, 26]. . . . Blessed
566 MendicantVision, 3,2 | eternally. For it can never so forget them while it uses reason
567 Pref, Intro,Intro | of this ~was undoubtedly fortified by Saint Francis' fashion
568 MendicantVision, 2,11 | see they may be carried ~forward to the intelligibles, which
569 Pref, Intro,Intro | the physical world as the founder of the Order to which Saint ~
570 Pref, Intro,Intro | science as it ~was before the fourteenth century and that which it
571 MendicantVision, 4,3 | harmony, smell the highest ~fragrance, taste the highest delicacy,
572 MendicantVision, 4,3 | aromatic ~spices, of myrrh and frankincense [Cant., 3, 6]; the second,
573 MendicantVision, 4,7 | soul reformed by virtues freely granted, by the spiritual
574 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | be seen. The Italian and French ~translators have the advantage
575 Pref, Intro,Intro | kinds of evidence, but ~frequently we have to be satisfied
576 MendicantVision, 1,9 | me, and be filled with my fruits" [Ecclesiasticus, 24, 26].
577 MendicantVision, 3,7 | Hence this prophecy is fulfilled: ~"Thou enlightenest wonderfully
578 MendicantVision, 6,5 | temporal man, born in the fullness of time of a Virgin - the ~
579 Pref, Intro,Intro | Chartres ~Cathedral in terms of functional architecture as that is
580 MendicantVision, 7,6 | This fire is God, and the ~furnace of this fire leadeth to
581 Pref, Intro,Intro | second hierarchy which was fused with the logical hierarchy
582 Pref, Intro,Intro | actually walked in the Garden of Eden; that He ~spoke
583 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | of the Lamb as through a gate. For one is not disposed
584 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | and may ~enter in by the gates into the City"; as if he
585 MendicantVision, 5,3 | of His essence, fix your gaze upon Being itself, ~and
586 MendicantVision, 2,7 | all knowable things can generate ~their likeness (species),
587 MendicantVision, 2,8 | proportionality and ~equality to the generator. In this is power, not through
588 MendicantVision, 1,14 | goodness adorning ~all things generously. "Magnitude" of things,
589 Pref, Intro,Intro | was the personal God of Genesis. His metaphysical problem ~
590 Pref, Intro,Intro | matter being a ~perfect geometrical triangle, no human being
591 Pref, Intro,Intro | postulates of a system of geometry which we ~accept merely
592 Pref, Intro,Intro | the future can be seen in germ. Besides its importance
593 MendicantVision, 2,10 | the body, as appears in gestures and bodily movements, and
594 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Washington, D. C., 1946.~ ~ ~Gilson, E. H., "La Philosophie
595 Pref | familiarize themselves with Giotto's painting ~of St. Francis
596 Pref, Intro,Biograph | native of Tuscany, was born Giovanni di Fidanza in 1221. ~He
597 Pref, Intro,Intro | be ringing and therefore giving off ~air waves. When these
598 Pref | given to the Reverend George Glanzman, S. J., who ~made a painstaking
599 MendicantVision, 3,1 | which is to see through a glass darkly [I Cor., 13, 12].~ ~ ~
600 MendicantVision, 3,1 | candelabrum, ~for in it gleams the resplendent image of
601 Pref, Intro,Intro | one, until he reaches his goal.~ ~ ~The mysticism of Saint
602 MendicantVision, 1,8 | we ~shall see the God of gods in Sion [Ps., 83, 8]~ ~ ~
603 MendicantVision, 1,7 | the true light to mutable goods, he was bent over ~by his
604 Pref, Intro,Intro | extraordinary that there ~are four Gospels, four points of the compass,
605 MendicantVision, 4,5 | 5~For this grade of contemplation there is
606 MendicantVision, 7,5(1) | Theology," Ch. I [Migne, "Pat. Graec.," Vol. III, 997].~ ~ ~
607 Pref | accepted all of his suggestions gratefully but, of course, I alone
608 MendicantVision, 5,7 | because ~power, the more greatly it is unified, the closer
609 MendicantVision, 1,9 | Ecclesiasticus, 24, 26]. For by ~the greatness of the beauty and of the
610 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | wishing for peace in every ~greeting, yearning for ecstatic peace
611 Pref, Intro,Biograph | and created a ~cardinal by Gregory X shortly before his death
612 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | prayer, which makes one groan with the murmuring of one'
613 Pref, Intro,Intro | friend and ~protector, Robert Grosseteste, whose interest in what
614 MendicantVision, 5,7 | 7~But you have ground for rising in wonder. For
615 Pref, Intro,Intro | there are good traditional grounds for ~thinking so. Plato,
616 Pref, Intro,Intro | are not simply convenient groupings made by man for his own
617 MendicantVision, 7,1 | truly ~contemplative man grows strong to rise again, filled
618 MendicantVision, 7,5 | superdivine and supergood guardian of ~Christian knowledge
619 MendicantVision, 3,3 | certainty except under its guidance. ~Therefore you can see
620 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | the eyes of our ~mind to guide our feet into the way of
621 MendicantVision, 4,7 | far as their operations, habits, and knowledge are ~concerned,
622 MendicantVision, 1,10 | believing, it ~considers the habitual course of things; reasoning,
623 Pref, Intro,Intro | presents. There is no need to hack one's way through a jungle
624 Pref, Intro,Intro | figures as Alexander of ~Hales, the master of Saint Bonaventura;
625 MendicantVision, 4,6 | according to the triple law handed down to us in it: ~the law
626 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | will ~know the artist. This handiwork shows traces of his workmanship.
627 MendicantVision, 1,15 | and in the works of Thy hands I shall rejoice [Ps., 91,
628 MendicantVision, 7,6 | My soul rather chooseth hanging and my bones death" [Job,
629 MendicantVision, 1,5 | omega, or in so far as we happen to see God ~in one of the
630 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | translated traces. It will ~hardly do to write vestiges or
631 MendicantVision, 2,6 | whether it is healthful or harmful, for this pertains to ~the
632 MendicantVision, 2,8 | is the conjunction of the harmonious, and the likeness of ~God
633 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | Wolfson s "Philo" (Cambridge: Harvard ~University, 1949).
634 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | peace said, with those ~that hated peace he was peaceable [
635 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | consideration - for he ~seems haunted by the basic metaphor of
636 MendicantVision, 4,8 | made a member of Christ the head, the sister, and ~the fellow-heir;
637 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | treatise into seven chapters, heading them ~with titles so that
638 MendicantVision, 4,3 | Father, he recovers spiritual healing ~and vision: hearing to
639 MendicantVision, 2,6 | not only whether it is healthful or harmful, for this pertains
640 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Bonaventure," Paris, 1924.~ ~ ~Healy, Sister Emma Therese, "Saint
641 MendicantVision, 4,3 | he sees his spouse ~and hears, smells, tastes, and embraces
642 Pref, Intro,Intro | to Philo-Judaeus in the Hebraic-~Christian tradition: the
643 MendicantVision, 1,9 | Creator, that we may be true Hebrews crossing from Egypt ~to
644 Pref, Intro,Intro | such modern thinkers as Hegel and his ~followers seemed
645 Pref, Intro,Intro | anti-intellectualism. Christianity was held to be a religion, not merely
646 MendicantVision, 4,2 | prostrate ~unless someone give a helping hand and he falls in order
647 Pref, Intro,Intro | led him at times close to heresy. Later there ~were Franciscans
648 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | based on St. ~Bonaventura's "Hexaemeron," XXII, 25-27, where each
649 MendicantVision, 3,7 | wonderfully from the everlasting hills. All the foolish ~of heart
650 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | following ~reflections, hinting that little or nothing is
651 Pref, Intro,Intro | recognized by all serious historians of philosophy as one of
652 MendicantVision, 1,8 | secondly, we must live ~holily; thirdly, we must strive
653 MendicantVision, 4,6 | which ~purifies us for an honest life, the allegorical which
654 MendicantVision, 1,15 | and adore Him, magnify and honor Him, lest the whole world ~
655 MendicantVision, 4,3 | soul which believes in, hopes in, and loves Jesus Christ,
656 Pref, Intro,Intro | GEORGE BOAS~THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY~July, 1953~ ~ ~ ~ ~
657 MendicantVision, 4,8 | the divine wisdom as the house of God; become the daughter,
658 MendicantVision, 6,3 | have the wherewithal to hover in highest ~wonder; and
659 MendicantVision, 1,1 | power raising us up. For howsoever the interior steps are disposed, ~
660 MendicantVision, 6,7 | of the invisible God, our humanity now ~wonderfully exalted,
661 Pref, Intro,Intro | Saint Francis' fashion of humanizing natural ~objects - the sun,
662 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | by divine grace, to the humble and ~the pious, to those
663 MendicantVision, 1,1 | seek it from their hearts humbly and ~devoutly; and this
664 Pref, Intro,Intro | Leibniz's Monadology, or Hume's "Enquiry" in its compactness ~
665 MendicantVision, 2,3 | which have ~something of a humid nature, something aerial,
666 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | love, understand without ~humility, be zealous without divine
667 Pref, Intro,Intro | fire), four seasons, four humors, four ~temperaments. But
668 MendicantVision, 6,2 | and consubstantial, and an hypostasis as noble as the producer ~
669 MendicantVision, 6,2 | intrinsic, substantial and hypostatic, ~natural and voluntary,
670 MendicantVision, 7,5(2) | Ibid."
671 Pref, Intro,Intro | its comparability, and he identified the ~hierarchy of reality
672 Pref, Intro,Intro | simply the satisfaction of idle ~curiosity, but the fulfillment
673 MendicantVision, 2,9 | transmutation, by the immutable, illimitable, ~and endless reason, and
674 MendicantVision, 4,6 | life, the allegorical which illuminates us for ~the clarity of understanding,
675 Pref, Intro,Intro | corroborate his faith. The best illustration of this conflict ~is found
676 MendicantVision, 3,5 | coequal, and coeval, mutually immanent. If then God is perfect
677 MendicantVision, 7,5 | thyself and all things in ~immeasurable and absolute purity of mind,
678 MendicantVision, 2,5 | active power does not exceed immoderately the powers ~of the recipient,
679 MendicantVision, 3,3 | concupiscence and phantasms do not impede you and place themselves ~
680 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | ductio, ordinatio, roboratio, imperatio, susceptio, ~revelatio,
681 MendicantVision, 3,3 | incomplete or complete, as imperfect or perfect, as potential
682 Pref, Intro,Intro | exaggeration maintain that the impetus ~to the study of the natural
683 MendicantVision, 1,6 | Synteresis"). These ~stages are implanted in us by nature, deformed
684 MendicantVision, 7,6 | over into ~darkness; let us impose silence on cares, concupiscence,
685 MendicantVision, 2,10 | incontrovertible. By these there are ~imprinted on our minds the "artificial"
686 Pref | several revisions which improved my first draft. I have ~
687 MendicantVision, 2,3 | smoke which is freed from incense.~ ~ ~There enter then through
688 Pref, Intro,Intro | species, though we ~are inclined to believe that the species
689 MendicantVision, 2,10 | which Augustine does not ~include in this classification because
690 MendicantVision, 5,8 | therefore within all, though not included in them; ~beyond all, but
691 Pref, Intro,Intro | come to the class ~which includes all other classes and which
692 Pref, Intro,Intro | nevertheless they all, including Saint Bonaventura, pushed ~
693 Pref, Intro,Intro | previously have been terrae incognitae. And when one compares science
694 MendicantVision, 2,9 | thus be true that they are incommutable and ~incorruptible since
695 MendicantVision, 6,3 | yourself able to understand the incomprehensible. For you have still in ~
696 MendicantVision, 2,9 | since ~intellectual and incorporeal, not made but uncreated,
697 MendicantVision, 2,9 | apprehending intellect - are ~indelibly stored up in the memory
698 MendicantVision, 3,3 | permanent, as ~dependent or independent, as mixed with non-being
699 MendicantVision, 2,9 | shine forth ~infallibly, indestructibly, indubitably, irrefragably,
700 Pref | brackets. In two places, indicated in footnotes, I have made ~
701 Pref, Intro,Intro | kind of knowledge which is indisputable. No one ~can deny what the
702 Pref, Intro,Intro | accustomed to the doctrine that individuals can be grouped into classes ~
703 MendicantVision, 2,9 | boundlessly, endlessly, indivisibly, and intellectually. And ~
704 MendicantVision, 2,9 | laws] ~are infallible and indubitable rules of the apprehending
705 MendicantVision, 6,7 | wonderfully exalted, now ineffably united, by seeing at once
706 Pref, Intro,Intro | something irrational - inept - than in believing something
707 MendicantVision, 2,13 | Him and to love Him, are inexcusable [Rom., 1, ~20], while they
708 MendicantVision, 2,9 | all things shine forth ~infallibly, indestructibly, indubitably,
709 MendicantVision, 1,7 | original sin, which doubly ~infected human nature, ignorance
710 MendicantVision, 1,7 | human nature, ignorance infecting man's mind and concupiscence
711 MendicantVision, 3,3 | terms, ~propositions, and inferences. The intellect however,
712 MendicantVision, 3,6 | knowledge which perfects it and informs ~it, and represents in three
713 MendicantVision, 4,8 | intellectual illuminations, is inhabited ~by the divine wisdom as
714 MendicantVision, 2,2 | them who shall receive ~the inheritance of salvation [Hebr., 1,
715 Pref, Intro,Intro | parents, was nevertheless ~inherited by us - one can also see
716 MendicantVision, 6,3 | eternity, in existence and ~inimitability While therefore you consider
717 MendicantVision, 2,11 | 11~From these two initial steps by which we are led
718 MendicantVision, 3,2 | were recognizing them ~as innate and familiar, as appears
719 MendicantVision, 7,5 | little should be given to inquiry but much to unction, ~little
720 Pref | and once in a while have inserted explanatory words and phrases ~
721 Pref, Intro,Intro | rational criticism, but would insist that his method, to use
722 Pref, Intro,Intro | the Christian ~religion insisted upon man's nature as having
723 Pref, Intro,Intro | vision.~ ~ ~Along with this insistence on direct experience as
724 Pref, Intro,Intro | compared to the man who insists on direct ~testimony; Saint
725 Pref, Intro,Intro | true knowledge a matter of inspection, of ~seeing. We all have
726 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | without wisdom divinely ~inspired. Therefore to those predisposed
727 MendicantVision, 3,2 | quantities - the point, ~the instant, the unit - without which
728 MendicantVision, 2,12 | those which He wished to institute for the purpose of signifying
729 MendicantVision, 1,1 | ch. 1, 13, wishing to instruct us in mental elevation,
730 MendicantVision, 7,6 | about, question grace, not ~instruction; desire, not intellect;
731 MendicantVision, 7,5 | superluminous darkness of instructive silence - darkness ~which
732 Pref, Intro,Intro | philosophy such as this a perfect instrument ~for the Christian, for
733 MendicantVision, 2,6 | through sense, to enter the intellective faculty by purification
734 MendicantVision, 7,5 | pouring out upon the invisible intellects the splendors of invisible ~
735 MendicantVision, 2,2 | which philosophers call "intelligences," but we "angels." These, ~
736 MendicantVision, 5,7(2) | Latin: "causa essendi, ratio intelligendi, et ordo vivendi."~
737 MendicantVision, 2,11 | carried ~forward to the intelligibles, which they do not see,
738 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | turns most directly and ~intensely to the rays of light [Ps.,
739 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | one think rather of the intention of the writer than of his ~
740 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | Jesus Christ, that by the intercession of the most holy Virgin ~
741 MendicantVision, 1,8 | purifying justice, and this in intercourse; toward the illumination
742 Pref, Intro,Intro | In Philo, who ~was mainly interested in the Pentateuch, the allegorical
743 MendicantVision, 1,1 | us up. For howsoever the interior steps are disposed, ~nothing
744 MendicantVision, 2,3 | terrestrial ~bodies; by the three intermediate senses the intermediates,
745 MendicantVision, 2,3 | intermediate senses the intermediates, as by taste the ~aqueous,
746 Pref, Intro,Intro | method was ~employed in interpreting Scripture. It was believed
747 Pref, Intro,Intro | seem to have felt such an intimate relationship ~with the physical
748 MendicantVision, 6,2 | only if it is actual and intrinsic, substantial and hypostatic, ~
749 Pref, Intro,Intro | added assumption is usually introduced into the ~discussion at
750 Pref, Intro | INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL~ ~ ~ ~ ~
751 MendicantVision, 4,2 | the things of sense to an intuition of itself and of the eternal
752 Pref, Intro,Intro | of God. If permanence and invariability are marks of goodness, then ~
753 Pref, Intro,Intro | answered the question by the invention of a basic metaphor. The ~
754 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | speculate without devotion, investigate without wonder, examine
755 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | filth of vice, do I first invite the reader, lest ~perchance
756 MendicantVision, 7,3 | spiritual men have been invited by God to passage ~of this
757 MendicantVision, 3,4 | idea of the ~good must be involved in every deliberation about
758 MendicantVision, 1,4 | sensuality; the second looks inward and into itself, wherefore
759 MendicantVision, 2,8 | is united in truth and in inwardness and in plenitude which employs
760 MendicantVision, 3,7 | that eternal light. ~The irradiation and consideration of this
761 MendicantVision, 2,9 | as if always present, are irrefragable ~and unquestionable rules
762 MendicantVision, 4,5 | Holy Scripture divinely issued, as ~philosophy was added
763 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | which God is to be seen. The Italian and French ~translators
764 Pref, Intro,Biograph | canonized in 1482 by Sixtus IV and a little over a century ~
765 Pref | Reverend George Glanzman, S. J., who ~made a painstaking
766 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | best and perfect ~gifts [James, 1, 17], the eternal Father
767 MendicantVision, 7,6 | hanging and my bones death" [Job, 7, 15]. He who ~chooses
768 Pref, Intro,Intro | GEORGE BOAS~THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY~July,
769 MendicantVision, 1,3 | this is the three days' journey into the wilderness [Ex.,
770 MendicantVision, 7,5 | tongue but much to inner joy, little to the word and
771 MendicantVision, 7,2 | appreciation, praise, and jubilation, makes a passover - that ~
772 MendicantVision, 2,9 | more certain judgments are judged by ~this mode of reasoning,
773 Pref, Intro,Intro | JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY~July, 1953~ ~ ~ ~ ~
774 Pref, Intro,Intro | hack one's way through a jungle of ~authorities, quotations,
775 Pref, Intro,Intro | cosmology into modern terms nor justify Chartres ~Cathedral in terms
776 Pref, Intro,Intro | faith. Far from it. But what Kant was to say of the ~relationship
777 Pref, Intro,Intro | religious ideas. This was ~in keeping with many traditions which
778 Pref, Intro,Intro | believed that he had the key to ~the allegory. Similarly
779 MendicantVision, 7,6 | Jerusalem; and Christ the man kindles it in ~the fervor of His
780 MendicantVision, 4,5 | brother and Lord, at once king and friend, at ~once Word
781 MendicantVision, 1,5 | throne of ~Solomon [III Kings, 10, 19]; the Seraphim whom
782 MendicantVision, 2,7 | and object. If then all knowable things can generate ~their
783 MendicantVision, 7,2 | if ~outwardly dead, yet knowing, as far as possible in our
784 Pref, Intro,Biblio | 1946.~ ~ ~Gilson, E. H., "La Philosophie de St. Bonaventure,"
785 MendicantVision, 2,5 | supplies ~what the recipient lacks; and this is to save and
786 Pref | and introduction must be laid at my door.~ ~ ~G. B.~
787 MendicantVision, 1,9 | crossing from Egypt ~to the land promised to our fathers;
788 Pref, Intro,Intro | his method, to use modern ~language, is empirical rather than
789 Pref, Intro,Intro | appeared in the Bestiaries and Lapidaries, and which we retain in ~
790 Pref, Intro,Intro | being ~grouped into still larger orders and families, until
791 MendicantVision, 5,2 | the New Testament, which lays down the plurality of the
792 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | Francis, our father and leader, He may enlighten the eyes
793 MendicantVision, 7,6 | the ~furnace of this fire leadeth to Jerusalem; and Christ
794 MendicantVision, 4,3 | with the sweetest delight, leans ~totally upon its beloved [
795 MendicantVision, 3,5 | which is in the memory ~leaps into the eye of the intellect,
796 Pref, Intro,Intro | as clearly as the most ~learned scholar. That made a philosophy
797 Pref, Intro,Intro | knowledge of God as the man of learning. ~This did not discourage
798 Pref, Intro,Intro | Discourse ~on Method," Leibniz's Monadology, or Hume's "
799 MendicantVision, 1,13 | discern. And the first are lesser things, the ~second midway,
800 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | announced and given to us; which lesson our father ~Francis always
801 MendicantVision, 4,3 | hearing to receive the lessons of Christ, vision to look
802 MendicantVision, 1,7 | carried aloft to supermental levels.~ ~ ~
803 MendicantVision, 2,9 | because, ~as Augustine says [Lib. Arb., II, ch. 4], no one
804 Pref | readable, I have taken the liberty of breaking up a few of
805 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | H. Whitaker in the Loeb Library. For a thorough study of
806 Pref, Intro,Biograph | widely ~venerated during his lifetime and is mentioned as a saint
807 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | thoughts must not be perused lightly, but should be meditated
808 Pref, Intro,Intro | George Washington or Abraham ~Lincoln, was more real than the
809 Pref, Intro,Intro | thing ~illustrated in the Linnaean classification of plants
810 Pref, Intro,Intro | such as the Eagle, the ~Lion, and the Olive Branch; or
811 MendicantVision, 1,15 | spiritual ears, open your lips, and apply ~your heart,
812 MendicantVision, 2,13 | bodies. Since, however, he is listing the ~three kinds of visible
813 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | live, now not I, but Christ liveth in me" [Gal., 2, 19]; who
814 MendicantVision, 6,3 | origin, and a ~mission not of local change but of free spiration,
815 MendicantVision, 1,11 | directs things to a certain location;[ 2] number, by which they ~
816 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | of G. H. Whitaker in the Loeb Library. For a thorough
817 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Esser Nemmers, St. Louis an ~London, 1946.~ ~ ~ - - , "Opera
818 Pref, Intro,Intro | told that the person has looked ~and seen. Sensory observation
819 MendicantVision, 5,7 | nothing new nor does ~it lose what it had, and therefore
820 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Erwin Esser Nemmers, St. Louis an ~London, 1946.~ ~ ~ - - , "
821 MendicantVision, 4,1 | spiritual gladness. Thus, lying totally in this ~sensible
822 Pref, Intro,Biblio | De Benedictis, Matthew M., "The Social Thought of
823 MendicantVision, 1,15 | Him, love and adore Him, magnify and honor Him, lest the
824 Pref, Intro,Intro | philosophy, was almost their main interest. ~Indeed, one might
825 Pref, Intro,Intro | method. In Philo, who ~was mainly interested in the Pentateuch,
826 Pref, Intro,Intro | were in the position of maintaining that there were some ~beliefs,
827 Pref, Intro,Intro | start, Saint Bonaventura maintains, but it is the proper ~start.
828 Pref, Intro,Biograph | this little treatise, ~his major works are the "Reductio
829 Pref, Intro,Intro | inclusive than the class of mammals, ~and the class of animals
830 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | Francis that his soul w as manifest in his flesh and ~he bore
831 Pref, Intro,Intro | more real than the idea of mankind though it is doubtful ~whether
832 MendicantVision, 7,2 | he ~may taste the hidden manna and with Christ may rest
833 Pref, Intro,Intro | might be ~thought of as a map of all things, a tree not
834 MendicantVision, 1,4 | and ~with all its soul [Mark, 12, 30]. And in this consists
835 Pref, Intro,Intro | permanence and invariability are marks of goodness, then ~indeed
836 MendicantVision, 7,4 | earth, has inflamed his marrow. And ~therefore the Apostle
837 MendicantVision, 5,4 | 4~Marvelous then is the blindness of
838 MendicantVision, 6,3 | in the face of such great marvels would not ~start in wonder?
839 Pref, Intro,Intro | philosophy as one of the ~shorter masterpieces of medieval philosophy.
840 Pref, Intro,Intro | or logical classes, or mathematical ~concepts, such as circles
841 Pref, Intro,Intro | as early as Philo. ~Few mathematicians today would play upon the
842 MendicantVision, 3,6 | divided into metaphysics, mathematics, and physics. The ~first
843 Pref, Intro,Intro | with this ~metaphysical matrix a certain philosophical
844 MendicantVision, 3,4 | But such proximity is measured by degrees of likeness.
845 MendicantVision, 4,8 | the friend of God; made a member of Christ the head, the
846 MendicantVision | THE MENDICANT'S VISION IN THE WILDERNESS~ ~ ~ ~ ~
847 Pref, Intro,Intro | method. One has only to mention such figures as Alexander
848 Pref, Intro,Intro | sensory experiences. If Messrs. Doe and Roe are ~exactly
849 MendicantVision, 5,8 | move" [Boethius, Cons. III, met. 9]. Because most ~perfect
850 MendicantVision, 1,14 | bodies, minerals, stones and ~metals, plants and animals, obviously
851 Pref, Intro,Intro | flowed from a candle. Such ~metaphors have been of the greatest
852 Pref, Intro,Intro | various ~assumptions, both methodological and doctrinal, and begin
853 Pref, Intro,Intro | world through empirical methods came from the ~Franciscans.
854 MendicantVision, 2,10 | the highest ~through the middles to the lowest, there is
855 MendicantVision, 1,5 | called Moses out of the midst of the cloud [Ex., ~21,
856 MendicantVision, 1,13 | lesser things, the ~second midway, and the third the best.
857 MendicantVision, 7,5(1) | Mystic Theology," Ch. I [Migne, "Pat. Graec.," Vol. III,
858 MendicantVision, 4,3 | Jerusalem and part of the Church militant, which, according to the
859 MendicantVision, 6,2 | and due love, and both mingled together, which is the fullest
860 MendicantVision, 2,2 | wherefore they are ~called "ministering spirits," sent to minister
861 MendicantVision, 2,12 | wished to appear in angelic ministry. And most specially does
862 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | things there occurred that miracle which ~happened in the same
863 Pref, Intro,Intro | which a human ~being exactly mirrored the universe as a whole,
864 MendicantVision, 4,7 | within ourselves as in the mirrors of created images - and
865 Pref, Intro,Intro | Church. ~The result of this miscomprehension has been disparagement of
866 MendicantVision, 2,13 | 1 This may be a mistranslation. For St. Bonaventura may
867 MendicantVision, 2,2 | contrariety of elements in mixtures, there can be generated ~
868 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | ecstatic peace in every moment of contemplation, as ~a
869 Pref, Intro,Intro | Discourse ~on Method," Leibniz's Monadology, or Hume's "Enquiry" in
870 Pref, Intro,Intro | thinking of one of the great monastic orders of the West; ~it
871 MendicantVision, 3,6(1) | In Latin, "monasticam oeconomicam et politicam."~
872 Pref, Intro,Intro | Roger Bacon; and the various monks ~of Saint Victor, to realize
873 MendicantVision, 4,3 | becomes as the dawn, the moon, and ~the sun, like the
874 MendicantVision, 7,5 | direct thou us into the more-than-unknown and ~superluminous and most
875 MendicantVision, 1,3 | evening, second as ~the morning, third as noon; this signifies
876 MendicantVision, 6,5 | with the most ~passive and mortal, the most perfect and immense
877 MendicantVision, 4,6 | principal part of it: the Mosaic Law purifying, the prophetic ~
878 Pref, Intro,Intro | question reduces to the motivation of ~knowledge, the question
879 Pref, Intro,Intro | committed it, that he had a motive for committing it, that
880 MendicantVision, 1,13 | visible things, therefore, one mounts to considering the power ~
881 MendicantVision, 2,3 | cognition of spiritual ~movers, as through an effect we
882 MendicantVision, 3,3 | man is running, a man is ~moving. It perceives, however,
883 Pref, Intro,Intro | are consulted and weighed, multiple distinctions are made, and ~
884 MendicantVision, 1,14 | manifestly. "Operation," multiplex inasmuch as it is natural,
885 MendicantVision, 5,7 | universal source of all ~multiplicity. And for this reason it
886 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | makes one groan with the murmuring of one's heart, ~and by
887 MendicantVision, 2,10 | and in the sixth book "On ~Music," wherein he assigns the
888 MendicantVision, 3,5 | consubstantial, ~coequal, and coeval, mutually immanent. If then God is
889 MendicantVision, 4,3 | of aromatic ~spices, of myrrh and frankincense [Cant.,
890 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | The translation of the names of the nine steps is based
891 Pref, Intro,Intro | or the "life cycle ~of a nation" in history, terms which
892 Pref, Intro,Biograph | BONAVENTURA~ ~ ~St. Bonaventura, a native of Tuscany, was born Giovanni
893 Pref, Intro,Intro | interpreted allegorically, and he naturally believed that he had the
894 MendicantVision, 4,1 | is clear ~that God is so near to our minds, that there
895 MendicantVision, 3,3 | man is not existing. The necessity of this mode of inference
896 MendicantVision, 2,10 | primarily in number, it needs must be that all things
897 Pref, Intro,Intro | which has ~been too much neglected since the publication of "
898 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Breviloquium," tr. by Erwin Esser Nemmers, St. Louis an ~London, 1946.~ ~ ~ - - , "
899 Pref, Intro,Intro | the three hierarchies of Neo-Platonism: the hierarchy of logical ~
900 Pref, Intro,Intro | so. Plato, Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists, and even the Stoics had ~
901 Pref, Intro,Intro | true also to fact? Cardinal Newman, in his "Grammar of ~Assent,"
902 Pref, Intro,Intro | seminal reasons. In the nineteenth century, when men ~were
903 Pref, Intro,Intro | people, both ~Catholic and non-Catholic, the impression that the
904 Pref, Intro,Intro | the Tree ~of Porphyry. In non-philosophic work we find the same sort
905 MendicantVision, 7,5 | invisible things, and both all nonbeing and being; and unknowingly
906 Pref, Intro,Intro | identical but existentially nonidentical sensations. Until Roe can
907 MendicantVision, 1,3 | as ~the morning, third as noon; this signifies the threefold
908 MendicantVision, 2,2 | 2~Let it be noted then that this world, which
909 MendicantVision, 5,3 | from Non-Being, ~just as nothingness is in full flight from Being.
910 MendicantVision, 5,3 | utterly nothing contains nought of Being nor of its conditions,
911 MendicantVision, 2,5 | and this is to save and nourish it, which appears ~especially
912 | nowhere
913 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | the ~throne of Solomon was nowise save in peace, since it
914 Pref, Intro,Intro | the curious properties of numbers-~-virgin numbers, perfect
915 MendicantVision, 2,10 | things are rhythmical ~("numerosa"). And for this reason number
916 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | my rendering. They run: ~"nuntiatio, dictatio, ductio, ordinatio,
917 Pref, Intro,Intro | rational arguments - where objections are analyzed, ~authorities
918 Pref, Intro,Intro | figure.~ ~ ~We should be obligated to maintain that the conclusion
919 Pref, Intro,Intro | fulfillment of a religious obligation. But it goes ~without saying
920 MendicantVision, 4,1 | itself through memory; ~obscured by phantasms, it does not
921 MendicantVision, 1,4 | consists both the perfect ~observance of the Law and Christian
922 Pref, Intro,Intro | the "Itinerarium," where ~observational science becomes not simply
923 Pref, Intro,Intro | only to ~look about one and observe that certain laws obtain;
924 Pref, Intro,Intro | can deny what the sensory ~observer sees. The philosopher who
925 Pref, Intro,Intro | observe that certain laws obtain; that there is order; ~that
926 MendicantVision, 4,3 | Canticles, as was done on the occasion of this fourth stage of ~
927 MendicantVision, 1,12 | succeed each other and occur in most ~orderly fashion;
928 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | amongst other things there occurred that miracle which ~happened
929 Pref, Intro,Intro | analogous to sounds and odors, but who had no direct ~
930 MendicantVision, 3,6(1) | In Latin, "monasticam oeconomicam et politicam."~
931 | off
932 Pref, Intro,Intro | Thomas Aquinas is the "official" philosophy of the Roman
933 MendicantVision, 3,5 | arises intelligence as ~its offspring, for then do we know when
934 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | devotion, anointed with the ~oil of gladness [Ps., 44, 8],
935 MendicantVision, 5,2 | refers above all to the Old Testament, which preaches
936 MendicantVision, 4,3 | affection he recovers spiritual ~olfaction. When he embraces the incarnate
937 Pref, Intro,Intro | Eagle, the ~Lion, and the Olive Branch; or the use of certain
938 Pref, Intro,Biblio | 1946.~ ~ ~ - - , "Opera Omnia," As Claras Aquas (Quaracchi),
939 MendicantVision, 5,7 | Therefore it is ~all-inclusive ("omnimodal"), because it is one to
940 MendicantVision, 5,8 | And this is so since it is omnipotent, ~omniscient, and all-good.
941 MendicantVision, 5,8 | since it is omnipotent, ~omniscient, and all-good. And to see
942 MendicantVision, 4,7 | and this as with ~wings opened for flying which hold the
943 Pref, Intro,Biblio | London, 1946.~ ~ ~ - - , "Opera Omnia," As Claras Aquas (
944 MendicantVision, 5,6 | thought of ~by an intellect as opposed to these, and one of these
945 Pref | Fathers contained in "Tria Opuscula" ~(Quaracchi), fifth edition,
946 Pref, Intro,Intro | reality, that classes are ordained by God and ~are not simply
947 MendicantVision, 2,11 | productive, exemplifying, and ordering, given to us for looking
948 Pref, Intro,Intro | are ~responsible for the orderliness of the universe; they are
949 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | nuntiatio, dictatio, ductio, ordinatio, roboratio, imperatio, susceptio, ~
950 MendicantVision, 5,7(2) | ratio intelligendi, et ordo vivendi."~
951 MendicantVision, 5,2 | 19]. Damascenus ["De fide orthodox.," 1, 9] therefore, following ~
952 MendicantVision, 4,5 | there is especially and outstandingly ~added as a support the
953 MendicantVision, 7,2 | rest in the tomb as if ~outwardly dead, yet knowing, as far
954 MendicantVision, 5,1 | are the Cherubim of glory overshadowing the propitiatory. By these
955 Pref, Intro,Biblio | 1939.~ ~ ~Prentice, Robert P., "The Psychology of Love
956 Pref, Intro,Intro | the general. In ancient ~Pagan thought, there was a standard
957 Pref, Intro,Intro | sets forth in very few ~pages a whole system of metaphysics;
958 MendicantVision, 2,5 | recipient, since the senses are pained by extremes and delight
959 Pref | Glanzman, S. J., who ~made a painstaking comparison of this translation
960 Pref, Intro,Intro | saw, and which had ~three pairs of wings, has to be interpreted
961 Pref, Intro,Biograph | mentioned as a saint in Dante's ~Paradiso. He was canonized in 1482
962 Pref, Intro,Intro | details of the ~vision are paralleled. The Seraph which Saint
963 Pref, Intro,Intro | committed by our primordial parents, was nevertheless ~inherited
964 MendicantVision, 3,3 | relative or absolute, as partial or total, as transient or
965 MendicantVision, 3,2 | potency, ~and that it can also participate in Him.~ ~ ~
966 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | then left it alone, ~as Pascal said of Descartes' God.~ ~ ~
967 Pref, Intro,Intro | itself, but ~also of certain passages in Exodus and Isaiah in
968 MendicantVision, 7,3 | who was ~with him when he passed over into God through the
969 MendicantVision, 2,5 | medium through ~which it passes, or to the end for which
970 MendicantVision, 6,5 | most actual with the most ~passive and mortal, the most perfect
971 MendicantVision, 7,2 | and jubilation, makes a passover - that ~is, the phase or
972 MendicantVision, 7,5(1) | Theology," Ch. I [Migne, "Pat. Graec.," Vol. III, 997].~ ~ ~
973 Pref, Intro,Intro | who is looking upon a patch of red, sees precisely what
974 Pref, Intro,Intro | publication of "Aeterni Patris," in 1879. ~That encyclical
975 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Theology"), the "Biblia Pauperum" ("Bible of the Poor"),
976 MendicantVision, 6,2 | 2~See then and pay heed, since the best which
977 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | that hated peace he was peaceable [Ps., 119, 7], "Pray ye
978 MendicantVision, 7,1 | peace, where the truly ~peaceful man reposes in peace of
979 Pref, Intro,Intro | of Saint Bonaventura was peculiar in that it was based on
980 MendicantVision, 5,8 | therefore it encompasses and penetrates all duration, existing at
981 MendicantVision, 6,2 | highest degree of mutual penetration and ~one operates with the
982 Pref, Intro,Intro | mainly interested in the Pentateuch, the allegorical method
983 | per
984 MendicantVision, 2,5 | takes delight in an object perceived ~through an abstracted similitude
985 MendicantVision, 3,2 | not as though it ~were perceiving them for the first time,
986 MendicantVision, 4,6 | and the most delightful perceptions of wisdom - in accordance
987 Pref, Intro,Intro | are the simple matters of perceptual fact which we are likely
988 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | invite the reader, lest ~perchance he should believe that it
989 Pref, Intro,Intro | as characteristic ~of a period to which they refer as one
990 Pref, Intro,Intro | in the ~mind of God. If permanence and invariability are marks
991 MendicantVision, 3,3 | or total, as transient or permanent, as ~dependent or independent,
992 MendicantVision, 3,5 | essentially or accidentally, but ~personally. When therefore the mind
993 MendicantVision, 3,6 | which makes us ~skillful in persuasion or stirring the emotions.
994 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | these ~thoughts must not be perused lightly, but should be meditated
995 MendicantVision, 7,2 | passover - that ~is, the phase or passage [Exod., 12, 11]
996 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | Eph., 1, 17; Luke, 1, 79; Phil., 4, 7], which peace our ~
997 MendicantVision, 7,6 | shown to us we may say with Philip, "It is enough for us" [
998 Pref, Intro,Intro | which goes back at least to Philo-Judaeus in the Hebraic-~Christian
999 Pref, Intro,Intro | history of thought, ~both philosophic and scientific. Thus we
1000 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Gilson, E. H., "La Philosophie de St. Bonaventure," Paris,
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