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1001 Pref | inserted explanatory words and phrases ~in square brackets. In
1002 MendicantVision, 2,12 | creature is by nature a sort of picture and likeness of that eternal ~
1003 MendicantVision, 2,11 | are shadows, echoes, and ~pictures, the traces, simulacra,
1004 MendicantVision, 4,3 | the soul becomes like a pillar of smoke of aromatic ~spices,
1005 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | to the humble and ~the pious, to those filled with compunction
1006 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | you fall into the lower pit of shadows from the ~contemplation
1007 Pref | square brackets. In two places, indicated in footnotes,
1008 Pref, Intro,Intro | grounds for ~thinking so. Plato, Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists,
1009 Pref, Intro,Intro | mathematicians today would play upon the curious properties
1010 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | of ways. St. Bonaventura plays upon its ~various shades
1011 MendicantVision, 4,6 | it stir not up till she pleases [Cant., 2, 7].~ ~ ~
1012 MendicantVision, 2,8 | species is the primal beauty, ~pleasure, and wholesomeness in which
1013 Pref, Intro,Intro | book is a kind of prose poem, with a dramatic ~development
1014 Pref, Intro,Intro | so on - in his talks and poems. ~Few, if any, of the saints
1015 Pref, Intro,Intro | religion.~ ~ ~It is worth pointing out that Franciscan philosophy
1016 Pref, Intro,Intro | are four Gospels, four points of the compass, four winds,
1017 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | of the mind be clear and polished.~ ~ ~Bestir yourself then,
1018 MendicantVision, 3,6 | individual, family, and political [problems].[ 1] ~And therefore
1019 MendicantVision, 3,6(1) | monasticam oeconomicam et politicam."~
1020 MendicantVision, 1,11(2)| Reading "pondus quo ad situm," instead of "
1021 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Pauperum" ("Bible of the Poor"), and the ~"Breviloquium."~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1022 MendicantVision, 4,4(3) | Bernard of Clairvaux to Pope Eugenius III.~
1023 Pref, Intro,Intro | passion. Among these more popular symbols ~was that of the
1024 Pref, Intro,Intro | logic is called the Tree ~of Porphyry. In non-philosophic work
1025 MendicantVision, 7,6 | and the God that is my portion ~forever [Ps. 72, 26]. . . .
1026 MendicantVision, 3,3 | through ~affirmations in some positive sense, our intellect cannot
1027 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | really a trait of that which possesses the function. Thus ~if a
1028 MendicantVision, 2,9 | accordance with which all ~things possessing form are formed. Neither,
1029 Pref, Intro,Intro | seeing. Thus we have the possibility of real, ~rather than notional,
1030 MendicantVision, 5,6 | of superabundance cannot possibly be applied ~to anything
1031 Pref, Intro,Intro | granted, whether they are the postulates of a system of geometry
1032 MendicantVision, 5,5 | understand that it has no potentialities within it, since ~every
1033 MendicantVision, 2,2 | active influence, which they pour out ~in accordance with
1034 MendicantVision, 4,8 | love ~of Christ which is poured forth into our hearts by
1035 MendicantVision, 7,5 | Since, therefore, nature is powerless in this matter and industry
1036 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | give themselves over to praising God, to ~wondering over
1037 MendicantVision, 1,2 | 2~By praying thus one is enlightened
1038 MendicantVision, 5,2 | the Old Testament, which preaches the unity of the ~divine
1039 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | taught, in all of whose preaching was the annunciation of ~
1040 Pref, Intro,Intro | author's contemporaries and predecessors utilized Biblical texts, ~
1041 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | inspired. Therefore to those predisposed by divine grace, to the
1042 Pref | PREFACE~ ~ ~This translation of
1043 MendicantVision, 1,1 | us in mental elevation, prefaces his work ~by prayer. Therefore
1044 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Bonaventura, N. Y., 1939.~ ~ ~Prentice, Robert P., "The Psychology
1045 Pref, Intro,Biograph | mysticism and constant ~preoccupation with the vision of the Seraph
1046 MendicantVision, 2,9 | all ~things but also the preserver of all and the distinguisher
1047 MendicantVision, 2,9 | of all, as the ~being who preserves the form in all things,
1048 Pref, Intro,Intro | believed in ideas which presumably made sense, could be stated
1049 MendicantVision, 1,15 | Open your ~eyes therefore, prick up your spiritual ears,
1050 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | previously resisted the pricks ~of conscience, before you
1051 MendicantVision, 1,15 | will there be matter for pride, ~who with the Prophet can
1052 MendicantVision, 5,1 | of Holies with the High Priest, the Holy of Holies where
1053 MendicantVision, 1,14 | the book of ~creation the primacy, sublimity, and dignity
1054 MendicantVision, 2,10 | proportion, and proportion is ~primarily in number, it needs must
1055 MendicantVision, 4,4 | dominates as ~Majesty, in the Principalities He rules as the First Principle,
1056 MendicantVision, 5,3 | however, ~Non-Being is the privation of Being, it cannot enter
1057 MendicantVision, 3,3 | simple or composite; since privations and defects can be known
1058 MendicantVision, 2,7 | species), obviously they proclaim that in them as in a ~mirror
1059 MendicantVision, 1,14 | plants and animals, obviously proclaims the three mentioned traits. ~"
1060 MendicantVision, 5,7 | For since it is first, it ~produces all things for its own sake
1061 MendicantVision, 2,11 | plenitude; of that art ~productive, exemplifying, and ordering,
1062 Pref, Intro,Biograph | seventh general of that order. Professor of ~theology at the University
1063 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | soul, as if by steps or progressive movements, ~was disposed
1064 MendicantVision, 1,9 | from Egypt ~to the land promised to our fathers; let us be
1065 MendicantVision, 1,15 | for pride, ~who with the Prophet can say, "Thou hast given
1066 MendicantVision, 4,5 | that all the Law and the Prophets depend upon ~these two Commandments:
1067 MendicantVision, 2,5 | and ~impression, which is proportional when the agent by impression
1068 MendicantVision, 2,8 | in which is the highest proportionality and ~equality to the generator.
1069 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | delighting in Him, do I propose the following ~reflections,
1070 Pref, Intro,Intro | This book is a kind of prose poem, with a dramatic ~development
1071 MendicantVision, 4,2 | fallen, he must remain there prostrate ~unless someone give a helping
1072 Pref, Intro,Intro | their great friend and ~protector, Robert Grosseteste, whose
1073 MendicantVision, 1,15 | fight against ~the unwise [Prov., 5, 21]; but to the wise
1074 Pref, Intro,Intro | which God's existence is ~proved by a series of rational
1075 MendicantVision, 1,12 | power in the first, of the providence in ~the second, of the justice
1076 Pref, Intro,Intro | weakened form in some of our pseudoheraldic symbols, such as the Eagle,
1077 Pref, Intro,Intro | has been doubted. For the psychological equipment, the ~sensory
1078 Pref, Intro,Intro | much neglected since the publication of "Aeterni Patris," in
1079 MendicantVision, 6,2 | nothing else than central and punctiform with respect to the ~immensity
1080 MendicantVision, 1,14 | sacraments, rewards, and punishments in the body of ~the Church
1081 MendicantVision, 4,7 | operations, that is, by purgation, illumination, ~and perfection
1082 MendicantVision, 4,5 | is the highest hierarch, purging and illuminating and perfecting ~
1083 MendicantVision, 2,6 | intellective faculty by purification and ~abstraction. And thus
1084 MendicantVision, 4,6 | the tropological which ~purifies us for an honest life, the
1085 MendicantVision, 7,6 | the cry of prayer, not pursuit of ~study; the spouse, not
1086 Pref, Intro,Intro | Saint Thomas to him who puts his trust exclusively in ~
1087 MendicantVision, 1,9 | ascension in the depths, putting the whole ~sensible world
1088 Pref, Intro,Intro | between existential and qualitative identity, ~and we all do,
1089 Pref, Intro,Intro | say that Doe and Roe have qualitatively ~identical but existentially
1090 MendicantVision, 2,3 | savor, and the four ~primary qualities which touch apprehends,
1091 MendicantVision, 3,2 | continuous and discrete quantities - the point, ~the instant,
1092 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | to Mount Alverna as to a quiet place, with the desire of ~
1093 Pref, Intro,Intro | incontrovertible knowledge. It is not quite so simple and direct and ~
1094 MendicantVision, 1,11(2)| Reading "pondus quo ad situm," instead of "quoad."~
1095 MendicantVision, 1,11(2)| quo ad situm," instead of "quoad."~
1096 MendicantVision, 5,6(1) | Latin text cite this as a quotation from Aristotle's ~Topics,
1097 MendicantVision, 1,7 | sin, and the whole human race by original sin, which doubly ~
1098 Pref, Intro,Biblio | 1937.~ ~ ~Dady, Sister Mary Rachael, "The Theory of Knowledge
1099 Pref, Intro,Intro | the sun, the birds, the rain, and so on - in his talks
1100 MendicantVision, 1,1 | except by a ~higher power raising us up. For howsoever the
1101 Pref, Intro,Intro | the Christian tradition ran a current of ~anti-intellectualism.
1102 MendicantVision, 6,6 | worship with plurality of ~ranks, an equal exaltation above
1103 MendicantVision, 5,7(2) | In Latin: "causa essendi, ratio intelligendi, et ordo vivendi."~
1104 Pref, Intro,Intro | does not have to be a great rationalist, an ~erudite theologian,
1105 MendicantVision, 2,13 | without we are disposed to re-~enter into the mirror of
1106 MendicantVision, 3,3 | sense, our intellect cannot reach the point ~of fully understanding
1107 MendicantVision, 4,5 | of the ~Commandments is reached by a pure heart and a good
1108 MendicantVision, 2,4 | into ~the organ and the reaction of the apprehensive power
1109 Pref | make the translation more ~readable, I have taken the liberty
1110 Pref, Intro,Intro | no work of art a perfect realization of the artist's idea. Arguing
1111 Pref, Intro,Intro | monks ~of Saint Victor, to realize that the confusion and disagreement
1112 Pref, Intro,Intro | Trinity (Ch. VI), though he realizes that such a proof is not ~
1113 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | appropriates to a ~function what is really a trait of that which possesses
1114 Pref, Intro,Intro | relevant ways, then one may reasonably conclude that ~their sensations
1115 MendicantVision, 3,2 | memory retains the past by recalling it, ~the present by receiving
1116 MendicantVision, 5,8 | 8~Recapitulating, let us say: Because, then,
1117 MendicantVision, 3,2 | having Him present that it ~receives Him in actuality and is
1118 MendicantVision, 4,3 | one knoweth but he that receiveth it [Apoc., 2, ~17]. For
1119 MendicantVision, 4,4 | strengthening, command, reception, divine illumination, union,[ 1] ~
1120 Pref, Intro,Intro | Deum," for it has ~been recognized by all serious historians
1121 MendicantVision, 3,2 | time, but as if it were recognizing them ~as innate and familiar,
1122 MendicantVision, 2,2 | virtue of the light which ~reconciles the contrariety of elements
1123 Pref, Intro,Intro | of speech or by having ~recourse to what he thought of as
1124 MendicantVision, 4,3 | touch. When these senses are recovered, when he sees his spouse ~
1125 MendicantVision, 1,7 | conscience and unfeigned faith, rectifies the whole soul in the ~threefold
1126 MendicantVision, 1,8 | foundation of the will's rectitude and of the enlightenment
1127 MendicantVision, 1,7 | and sanctification and redemption [I Cor., 1, 30]. He is the
1128 Pref, Intro,Intro | one another. The question reduces to the motivation of ~knowledge,
1129 Pref, Intro,Biograph | his major works are the "Reductio Artium in Theologiam" ("
1130 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Artium in Theologiam" ("Reduction of the ~Arts to Theology"),
1131 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Saint Bonaventura's De reductione artium ad ~theologiam" (
1132 Pref, Intro,Intro | of a period to which they refer as one of universal concord.~ ~ ~
1133 MendicantVision, 4,4 | one's heart when, by the ~reformation of the image through the
1134 Pref, Intro,Intro | authorities, quotations, refutations, distinctions, and textual
1135 MendicantVision, 1,8 | above-mentioned natural powers for ~regenerating grace, and do this through
1136 Pref, Intro,Intro | were as impressed by the regularity of scientific laws as they
1137 MendicantVision, 2,5 | whether it is thought ~of as related to the principle from which
1138 Pref, Intro,Intro | are ~exactly alike in all relevant ways, then one may reasonably
1139 Pref, Intro,Intro | mysterious way - ~and it has remained mysterious to this day -
1140 MendicantVision, 5,8 | and most immutable, then "remaining stable it ~causes the universe
1141 MendicantVision, 4,5 | incarnate, our maker and remaker, the alpha and ~omega. He
1142 MendicantVision, 3,2 | which it is impossible to remember or to ~think about those
1143 MendicantVision, 3,2 | present to ~itself in which it remembers unchangeable truths. And
1144 Pref, Intro,Intro | Saint Francis, only in ~a remote sense of the word a philosophical
1145 Pref, Intro,Intro | stands at the beginning of Renaissance science as one of those
1146 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | transliteration in place of my rendering. They run: ~"nuntiatio,
1147 MendicantVision, 4,3 | when the inner senses are renewed in order to ~perceive the
1148 MendicantVision, 4,3 | perfected; and thus the image is repaired and is made like the heavenly ~
1149 MendicantVision, 4,2 | make ~itself into a ladder, repairing the first ladder which was
1150 MendicantVision, 1,10 | things, as the carnal sense reports trebly to the ~inner sense.
1151 MendicantVision, 7,1 | the truly ~peaceful man reposes in peace of mind as if in
1152 Pref, Intro,Intro | It is thus one of those representative ~documents which it behooves
1153 Pref, Intro,Intro | that such a classification ~reproduces the structure of reality,
1154 Pref, Intro,Intro | ubiquity ~of God, and that is repugnant to our religious and philosophical
1155 MendicantVision, 3,4 | something which has some resemblance to it. ~So great is the
1156 Pref, Intro,Intro | this work. That method is resident in ~a theory of knowledge
1157 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | God, you who previously resisted the pricks ~of conscience,
1158 MendicantVision, 3,1 | candelabrum, ~for in it gleams the resplendent image of the most blessed
1159 MendicantVision, 1,5 | the world in six ~days and rested on the seventh, so the microcosm
1160 MendicantVision, 7,5 | and being; and unknowingly restore ~thyself to unity as far
1161 MendicantVision, 5,3 | particular ~Being, which is restricted Being, since that is mixed
1162 MendicantVision, 6,7 | of the mind, its insight rests from all work which He had
1163 Pref, Intro,Intro | Roman Catholic Church. ~The result of this miscomprehension
1164 MendicantVision, 2,10 | calls ~"sensual." Some are retained in the memory, and these
1165 MendicantVision, 3,2 | simple forms from above and retaining them in itself - forms which ~
1166 MendicantVision, 4,6 | mind, by which our mind retreats into itself so that it may
1167 MendicantVision, 4,1 | concupiscence, it never returns to itself through the desire
1168 MendicantVision, 7,4 | that this mystic wisdom is revealed through the ~Holy Spirit.~ ~ ~
1169 Pref, Intro,Intro | everything which it is capable of revealing, but only for those ~things
1170 MendicantVision, 4,4 | Virtue, in the Archangels He reveals as Light, in the Angels
1171 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | imperatio, susceptio, ~revelatio, unctio" (or "unitio," if
1172 MendicantVision, 4,6 | purifying, the prophetic ~revelation illuminating, and evangelical
1173 MendicantVision, 4,7 | through the hierarchical revelations of the ~Holy Scriptures
1174 MendicantVision, 1,2 | knowledge of God and in the reverence of His majesty.~ ~ ~
1175 Pref | thanks are given to the Reverend George Glanzman, S. J.,
1176 Pref | original ~and suggested several revisions which improved my first
1177 MendicantVision, 1,14 | of the divine sacraments, rewards, and punishments in the
1178 MendicantVision, 3,6 | skill in argumentation; rhetoric, which makes us ~skillful
1179 Pref, Intro,Intro | red, sees precisely what Richard Roe sees, ~could be doubted
1180 MendicantVision, 1,15 | earth is filled with Thy riches" [Ps., 103, 24].~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1181 Pref, Intro,Intro | body Thus a bell may be ringing and therefore giving off ~
1182 MendicantVision, 5,7 | But you have ground for rising in wonder. For Being itself
1183 Pref, Intro,Intro | natural world than its great ~rival, Thomism, did. Even in the "
1184 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | otherwise, he is a thief and a ~robber [John, 10, 1]. But if anyone
1185 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | are they that wash their robes in the ~blood of the Lamb,
1186 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | dictatio, ductio, ordinatio, roboratio, imperatio, susceptio, ~
1187 Pref, Intro,Intro | official" philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church. ~The result
1188 MendicantVision, 6,1 | first. Just as Being is ~the root and name of the vision of
1189 MendicantVision, 4,8 | In charity then let us be rooted and ~founded, that we may
1190 Pref, Intro,Biograph | space of ~fifteen years rose to be seventh general of
1191 Pref, Intro,Intro | propositions of ~existence or, roughly, fact; the latter, that
1192 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | the words rather than the rude speech, of truth ~rather
1193 MendicantVision, 2,2 | and human bodies. The ~rulers of the former and the latter
1194 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | place of my rendering. They run: ~"nuntiatio, dictatio,
1195 MendicantVision, 1,9 | let us ~place the first rung of the ascension in the
1196 Pref, Intro,Intro | the source of all truth ~runs a practice which goes back
1197 MendicantVision, 7,1 | may finally arrive at the Sabbath of ~rest after it has beheld
1198 MendicantVision, 5,7 | produces all things for its own sake alone; and therefore it
1199 MendicantVision, 2,8 | apprehension. Here is impression, ~salubrious and satisfying, and expelling
1200 MendicantVision, 1,7 | wisdom and justice ~and sanctification and redemption [I Cor.,
1201 MendicantVision, 4,8 | dedicated to God by the sanctity of the mind ~and the body.
1202 Pref, Intro,Intro | frequently we have to be satisfied with one type or bits of
1203 MendicantVision, 2,8 | impression, ~salubrious and satisfying, and expelling all lack
1204 MendicantVision, 4,2 | man enter in, he shall be saved; and he shall go in, ~and
1205 MendicantVision, 4,5 | Law, as he ~says. And our Saviour adds that all the Law and
1206 MendicantVision, 2,3 | are light, sound, odor, savor, and the four ~primary qualities
1207 Pref, Intro,Intro | in this order of beings a scale of creatures which might
1208 Pref, Intro,Intro | clearly as the most ~learned scholar. That made a philosophy
1209 Pref, Intro,Intro | demonstrate to the world of scholars what the religious ~man
1210 Pref, Intro,Intro | Franciscans like Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, and their great friend
1211 MendicantVision, 4,7 | revelations of the ~Holy Scriptures given to us, according to
1212 Pref, Intro,Intro | some people ~but which upon scrutiny turned out to be figures
1213 MendicantVision, 3,3 | contingent ~or necessary (per se), as posterior or prior,
1214 MendicantVision, 7,2 | he may pass over ~the Red Sea by the staff of the cross
1215 Pref, Intro,Intro | water, air, and fire), four seasons, four humors, four ~temperaments.
1216 MendicantVision, 4,4 | Truth, ~in the Thrones He is seated as Equity, in the Dominations
1217 MendicantVision, 1,8 | so, first, we must pray; secondly, we must live ~holily; thirdly,
1218 MendicantVision, 7,4 | however, is mystical and most secret, which no ~man knoweth but
1219 MendicantVision, 4,8 | Spirit we cannot know the secrets ~of God. For just as no
1220 MendicantVision, 3,4 | Human desire, therefore, seeks nothing unless it be the
1221 | seemed
1222 Pref, Intro,Biblio | SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY~ ~ ~St. Bonaventura, "
1223 MendicantVision, 4,4 | perception, deliberation, self-impulsion, ~ordination, strengthening,
1224 MendicantVision, 2,3 | something, and some are self-moved and remain at ~rest, as
1225 MendicantVision, 6,3 | the producer which every sender has in respect to that which
1226 Pref, Intro,Intro | would not be ~having Doe's sensation, for each man is the terminus
1227 MendicantVision, 2,6 | sensible species, received sensibly ~through sense, to enter
1228 MendicantVision, 1,4 | is called animality or ~sensuality; the second looks inward
1229 Pref | up a few of the longer ~sentences and once in a while have
1230 MendicantVision, 2,2 | souls; or conjoined though separable, ~as are the rational spirits;
1231 MendicantVision, 2,2 | rational spirits; or entirely separated, as are the celestial ~spirits,
1232 Pref, Intro,Biograph | usually been ~known as the Seraphic Donor, probably because
1233 Pref, Intro,Intro | been recognized by all serious historians of philosophy
1234 MendicantVision, 5,2 | elevate the youth who had ~served the law to evangelical perfection,
1235 MendicantVision, 1,10 | sense. For the carnal sense serves him who either understands ~
1236 Pref, Intro,Intro | medieval philosophy. It sets forth in very few ~pages
1237 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | plays upon its ~various shades of meaning - reflection,
1238 Pref, Intro,Intro | observation of colors, sounds, shapes, and so on, has knowledge
1239 | she
1240 Pref, Intro,Intro | philosophy as one of the ~shorter masterpieces of medieval
1241 Pref, Intro,Biograph | a ~cardinal by Gregory X shortly before his death in 1274,
1242 MendicantVision, 5,8 | was said to Moses, "I will show thee all good" [Exod. 33,
1243 MendicantVision, 1,1 | devoutly; and this means to sigh for it in this vale of tears,
1244 MendicantVision, 2,12 | because every effect is the sign of its cause, the ~exemplification
1245 MendicantVision, 5,1 | through His light, which has ~signed upon our minds the light
1246 MendicantVision, 2,12 | institute for the purpose of signifying which are ~not only signs
1247 MendicantVision, 5,6 | you see this in the pure ~simplicity of your mind, you will somehow
1248 MendicantVision, 2,11 | and ~pictures, the traces, simulacra, and reflections of that
1249 MendicantVision, 4,3 | and embraces Him, he can sing like the Bride a ~Canticle
1250 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | sought this peace, I, a sinner, who have succeeded to the ~
1251 MendicantVision, 1,7 | Hence man, blinded and bent, sits in the shadows and does
1252 MendicantVision, 1,14 | by reason of duration, situation, and influence, as prior
1253 MendicantVision, 1,11(2)| Reading "pondus quo ad situm," instead of "quoad."~
1254 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | Therefore the symbol of the six-winged Seraph signifies ~the six
1255 MendicantVision, 1,5 | principal stages become sixfold, so that as God made the
1256 MendicantVision, 3,6 | logic, which gives us skill in argumentation; rhetoric,
1257 MendicantVision, 3,6 | rhetoric, which makes us ~skillful in persuasion or stirring
1258 Pref, Intro,Intro | person ~believes that the sky is blue, he will be told
1259 MendicantVision, 4,6 | as in a ~chamber, it may sleep in peace and take its rest [
1260 Pref | footnotes, I have made ~slight emendations to the text.
1261 MendicantVision, 7,5 | matter and industry but ~slightly able, little should be given
1262 MendicantVision, 2,6 | same in the great and the small, ~and is not spread out
1263 Pref, Intro,Intro | kinds; and so on down to the smallest classes in which ~individual
1264 MendicantVision, 4,3 | hear the highest harmony, smell the highest ~fragrance,
1265 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | seeing, his taste doing the smelling, and so on. This ~becomes
1266 MendicantVision, 4,3 | sees his spouse ~and hears, smells, tastes, and embraces Him,
1267 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Benedictis, Matthew M., "The Social Thought of St. Bonaventura," ~
1268 MendicantVision, 2,3 | bodies; through touch the solid and terrestrial ~bodies;
1269 MendicantVision, 3,4 | upward to divine laws ~if it solves its problems completely.~ ~ ~
1270 | somehow
1271 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | explained. Since ~they are somewhat awkward in English, I give
1272 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | Francis, I ~breathlessly sought this peace, I, a sinner,
1273 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | when a Catholic theologian speaks of the Father as ~creating
1274 MendicantVision, 2,12 | angelic ministry. And most specially does it appear in ~those
1275 MendicantVision, 2,5 | form and thus ~is called "speciositas" [beauty], because beauty
1276 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | to read without unction, ~speculate without devotion, investigate
1277 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | have translated the Latin "speculatio," which appears over and
1278 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | of meaning - reflection, speculation, consideration - for he ~
1279 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | being a sort of ~mirror (speculum) in which God is to be seen.
1280 MendicantVision, 5,8 | therefore, is an ~intelligible sphere whose center is everywhere
1281 MendicantVision, 4,3 | pillar of smoke of aromatic ~spices, of myrrh and frankincense [
1282 Pref, Intro,Intro | such beliefs is to deny the spirituality and ubiquity ~of God, and
1283 Pref, Intro,Intro | admits is uncommunicable, in spite of the fact that most of
1284 MendicantVision, 7,5 | invisible intellects the splendors of invisible ~goodness."[ 1]~
1285 Pref, Intro,Intro | Garden of Eden; that He ~spoke as human beings speak with
1286 MendicantVision, 2,6 | and the small, ~and is not spread out through a thing's dimensions;
1287 MendicantVision, 1,14 | the excellence ~of power spreading itself in length, breadth,
1288 Pref | explanatory words and phrases ~in square brackets. In two places,
1289 MendicantVision, 5,8 | immutable, then "remaining stable it ~causes the universe
1290 MendicantVision, 7,2 | over ~the Red Sea by the staff of the cross from Egypt
1291 MendicantVision, 7,1 | the door, Christ is the stairway and the vehicle, like the
1292 Pref, Intro,Intro | his conclusions would not stand up under ~rational criticism,
1293 Pref, Intro,Intro | Pagan thought, there was a standard belief that no particular
1294 Pref, Intro,Intro | orders of the West; ~it stands at the beginning of Renaissance
1295 Pref, Intro,Intro | presumably made sense, could be stated in words, ~could be true
1296 Pref, Intro,Intro | it is a straightforward ~statement of a philosophical point
1297 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | seeking spiritual peace; and staying there, while I meditated
1298 MendicantVision, 4,6 | spouse adjures it that it stir not up till she pleases [
1299 MendicantVision, 3,6 | skillful in persuasion or stirring the emotions. And this similarly
1300 Pref, Intro,Intro | Neo-Platonists, and even the Stoics had ~a tendency to confuse
1301 MendicantVision, 1,14 | celestial bodies, minerals, stones and ~metals, plants and
1302 Pref, Intro,Intro | was degeneration. When one stops to think that the Christian ~
1303 MendicantVision, 2,9 | intellect - are ~indelibly stored up in the memory as if always
1304 Pref, Intro,Intro | another man's book; it is a straightforward ~statement of a philosophical
1305 Pref, Intro,Intro | suggestiveness, it represents a strain of medieval thought which
1306 MendicantVision, 7,5 | desirest mystic visions, with strengthened ~feet abandon thy senses
1307 MendicantVision, 4,4 | self-impulsion, ~ordination, strengthening, command, reception, divine
1308 Pref, Intro,Intro | vision. The mystic, like the ~strict empiricist, has a kind of
1309 MendicantVision, 3,3 | kindled at that truth and strives to return to it." From which
1310 MendicantVision, 1,8 | reflection of truth and, by our ~striving, mount step by step until
1311 MendicantVision, 6,3 | stages to consider what most strongly leads our mind's eye into ~
1312 Pref, Intro,Intro | classification ~reproduces the structure of reality, that classes
1313 MendicantVision, 7,1 | considerations have been studied as the six steps of ~the
1314 Pref, Intro,Intro | particular importance in studying this work. That method is
1315 MendicantVision, 6,3 | our mind's eye into ~the stupor of wonder. For there [in
1316 MendicantVision, 2,5 | and thus it is ~called "suavity," for active power does
1317 Pref, Intro,Intro | metaphor. The ~universe was subject to something which he called "
1318 MendicantVision, 2,13 | survives in the English verb, "sublimate," "to ~vaporize."~ ~ ~
1319 MendicantVision, 2,3 | enter the transparent ("sublimia"), ~luminous, and other
1320 MendicantVision, 1,14 | of ~creation the primacy, sublimity, and dignity of the First
1321 MendicantVision, 6,2 | is actual and intrinsic, substantial and hypostatic, ~natural
1322 MendicantVision, 6,3 | sent. ~Because they are substantially one, therefore it must be
1323 MendicantVision, 1,12 | Scripture, and of Grace - succeed each other and occur in
1324 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | peace, I, a sinner, who have succeeded to the ~place of that most
1325 MendicantVision, 2,9 | therefore from ~dimension, succession, and transmutation, by the
1326 MendicantVision, 1,5 | so the microcosm by six successive stages ~of illumination
1327 MendicantVision, 1,7 | unless grace with justice succor him from ~concupiscence,
1328 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | he should believe that it suffices to read without unction, ~
1329 MendicantVision, 3,7 | our minds, ~illumined and suffused by such great radiance,
1330 Pref, Intro,Intro | someone is asked why he thinks sugar is sweet, he will ~tell
1331 Pref | the Latin original ~and suggested several revisions which
1332 Pref, Intro,Intro | That propulsion, we are suggesting, came from the ~Franciscans.~ ~ ~
1333 Pref | have ~accepted all of his suggestions gratefully but, of course,
1334 Pref, Intro,Intro | in its compactness ~and suggestiveness, it represents a strain
1335 Pref, Intro,Intro | Thomas Aquinas in the "Summa Theologica," in which God'
1336 MendicantVision, 7,5 | superluminous and most sublime summit of mystical eloquence, where
1337 Pref, Intro,Intro | numbers which are ~the sums of such numbers as three
1338 Pref, Intro,Intro | numbers, perfect numbers, superabundant numbers, numbers which are ~
1339 MendicantVision, 1,13 | and ~incorruptible, as the supercelestial things.~ ~ ~From these visible
1340 MendicantVision, 7,5 | Trinity, superessential and superdivine and supergood guardian of ~
1341 MendicantVision, 5,7 | of all things, but as the superexcellent ~and most universal and
1342 MendicantVision, 6,5 | perfect ~and having nothing superfluous or lacking, and yet immense
1343 MendicantVision, 7,5 | superessential and superdivine and supergood guardian of ~Christian knowledge
1344 Pref, Intro,Intro | used in the comparative and superlative ~degrees. Saint Bonaventura
1345 MendicantVision, 7,5 | silence - darkness ~which is supermanifest and superresplendent, and
1346 MendicantVision, 1,7 | may be carried aloft to supermental levels.~ ~ ~
1347 MendicantVision, 7,5 | which is supermanifest and superresplendent, and in which all is aglow, ~
1348 MendicantVision, 6,4 | also in comparison with the superwonderful union ~of God and man in
1349 MendicantVision, 2,5 | the agent by impression supplies ~what the recipient lacks;
1350 MendicantVision, 4,5 | outstandingly ~added as a support the consideration of Holy
1351 MendicantVision, 3,6 | is the image of ~God, is supported by the light of knowledge
1352 Pref, Intro,Intro | faith and reason were both supposed ~to assert something. Whether
1353 Pref, Intro,Intro | the divine mind which is ~sure. It is only a start, Saint
1354 MendicantVision, 2,9 | seeing ~eternal truths more surely. For if judgment comes about
1355 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | way of that peace "which surpasses all ~understanding" [Eph.,
1356 MendicantVision, 1,1 | mother and source of ascent ("sursum-~actionis") in God. Therefore
1357 MendicantVision, 2,13 | the air, and this usage survives in the English verb, "sublimate," "
1358 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | ordinatio, roboratio, imperatio, susceptio, ~revelatio, unctio" (or "
1359 MendicantVision, 4,3 | series of illuminations which suspend the soul in wonder ~as it
1360 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | saw that it signified the suspension of our ~father himself in
1361 Pref, Intro,Intro | asked why he thinks sugar is sweet, he will ~tell you that
1362 MendicantVision, 4,3 | soul, overflowing with the sweetest delight, leans ~totally
1363 MendicantVision, 4,1 | through the desire for ~inner sweetness and spiritual gladness.
1364 Pref, Intro,Intro | wishes to study the work sympathetically. But along with this ~metaphysical
1365 Pref, Intro,Intro | It should be read with sympathy. One should accept its author'
1366 MendicantVision, 1,6 | illumination of conscience ("Synteresis"). These ~stages are implanted
1367 Pref, Intro,Intro | attempting to build up rational ~systems which would demonstrate
1368 MendicantVision, 2,13 | For St. Bonaventura may be talking about ~our perception of
1369 Pref, Intro,Intro | rain, and so on - in his talks and poems. ~Few, if any,
1370 Pref, Intro,Intro | that it is because he has tasted it. If someone asks why
1371 MendicantVision, 4,3 | spouse ~and hears, smells, tastes, and embraces Him, he can
1372 MendicantVision, 7,6 | study; the spouse, not the teacher; God, not man; darkness,
1373 MendicantVision, 3,3 | yourself, the truth that teaches ~you, if concupiscence and
1374 MendicantVision, 4,6 | illuminating, and evangelical teaching perfecting; or above all, ~
1375 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | This is a technical term which is used when
1376 Pref, Intro,Intro | sugar is sweet, he will ~tell you that it is because he
1377 Pref, Intro,Intro | seasons, four humors, four ~temperaments. But all men will usually
1378 MendicantVision, 4,8 | fellow-heir; made nonetheless the temple of the Holy Spirit, founded
1379 Pref, Intro,Intro | Franciscan philosophy as a whole tended to ~put more emphasis upon
1380 Pref, Intro,Intro | and even the Stoics had ~a tendency to confuse goodness with
1381 Pref, Intro,Intro | which ~previously have been terrae incognitae. And when one
1382 MendicantVision, 2,3 | through touch the solid and terrestrial ~bodies; by the three intermediate
1383 Pref, Intro,Intro | very well for ~a man like Tertullian to maintain that there was
1384 Pref, Intro,Intro | hierarchy of classes in the textbooks of classical logic is called
1385 Pref, Intro,Intro | refutations, distinctions, and textual exegeses. ~It is not a commentary
1386 | Thence
1387 MendicantVision, 2,2 | things. According to the theologians, however, there is ~attributed
1388 Pref, Intro,Intro | Thomas Aquinas in the "Summa Theologica," in which God's existence
1389 Pref, Intro,Intro | religious and philosophical theories. ~Consequently Philo maintained
1390 | therein
1391 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Healy, Sister Emma Therese, "Saint Bonaventura's De
1392 Pref, Intro,Intro | comparable; indeed such modern thinkers as Hegel and his ~followers
1393 Pref, Intro,Intro | someone is asked why he thinks sugar is sweet, he will ~
1394 MendicantVision, 1,8 | secondly, we must live ~holily; thirdly, we must strive toward the
1395 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | the divine will in the thirty-third year after the death of
1396 Pref, Intro,Intro | of writings ~other than Thomistic. Yet even in the thirteenth
1397 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | the Loeb Library. For a thorough study of the whole ~matter,
1398 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | the progress of these ~thoughts must not be perused lightly,
1399 Pref, Intro,Intro | committing it, that he ~threatened to commit it, that no one
1400 MendicantVision, 4,4 | knows as Truth, ~in the Thrones He is seated as Equity,
1401 MendicantVision, 3,5 | forth love, which is the tie ~between the two. These
1402 MendicantVision, 7,5 | all behind and freed from ~ties of all."[ 2]~ ~ ~
1403 MendicantVision, 4,6 | adjures it that it stir not up till she pleases [Cant., 2, 7].~ ~ ~
1404 MendicantVision, 4,5 | and an ~unfeigned faith [I Tim., 1, 5]. This is the fulfillment
1405 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | chapters, heading them ~with titles so that their contents may
1406 MendicantVision, 7,2 | with Christ may rest in the tomb as if ~outwardly dead, yet
1407 MendicantVision, 7,5 | unction, ~little to the tongue but much to inner joy, little
1408 MendicantVision, 5,6(1) | quotation from Aristotle's ~Topics, V. 5, but I have not been
1409 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | person has five senses, he touches as a whole, sees as a whole, ~
1410 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Bonaventura, "Breviloquium," tr. by Erwin Esser Nemmers,
1411 MendicantVision, 2,10 | things it is the outstanding trace leading to ~wisdom. Since
1412 Pref, Intro,Intro | Saint Bonaventura can be traced back to ~Plotinus, if not
1413 Pref, Intro,Intro | particular, though there are good traditional grounds for ~thinking so.
1414 Pref, Intro,Intro | was ~in keeping with many traditions which were common in the
1415 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | function what is really a trait of that which possesses
1416 MendicantVision, 2,10 | said above, necessarily transcend our minds ~because they
1417 MendicantVision, 7,5 | knowledge. And when thou hast transcended thyself and all things in ~
1418 MendicantVision, 7,4 | our affection should be transferred and ~transformed into God.
1419 MendicantVision, 1,5 | into a mountain and was transfigured before them.~ ~ ~
1420 MendicantVision, 3,3 | as partial or total, as transient or permanent, as ~dependent
1421 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | The Italian and French ~translators have the advantage of those
1422 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | for they ~have merely to transliterate the Latin word. We have
1423 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | wishes may ~retain them in transliteration in place of my rendering.
1424 MendicantVision, 2,9 | dimension, succession, and transmutation, by the immutable, illimitable, ~
1425 MendicantVision, 2,3 | through sight enter the transparent ("sublimia"), ~luminous,
1426 MendicantVision, 7,3 | over into God through the transports of ~contemplation and became
1427 MendicantVision, 1,10 | the carnal sense reports trebly to the ~inner sense. For
1428 Pref | Franciscan Fathers contained in "Tria Opuscula" ~(Quaracchi),
1429 MendicantVision, 1,14 | wisdom, ~and goodness of the triune God, Who exists unlimited
1430 Pref, Intro,Intro | than rational. To take a trivial example from ~another field,
1431 MendicantVision, 4,6 | spiritual meaning of it - the tropological which ~purifies us for an
1432 MendicantVision, 3,7 | the foolish ~of heart were troubled" [Ps., 75, 5-6].~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1433 Pref, Intro,Intro | Thomas to him who puts his trust exclusively in ~circumstantial
1434 Pref, Intro,Intro | There ~would be no point in trying to translate it in terms
1435 MendicantVision, 1,7 | delight [Gen., 2, 16]. But ~turning himself away from the true
1436 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | apprehension by which the mind turns most directly and ~intensely
1437 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Bonaventura, a native of Tuscany, was born Giovanni di Fidanza
1438 Pref, Intro,Intro | translate it in terms of the twentieth ~century, for the attempt
1439 MendicantVision, 1,5 | the aforesaid modes are twofold - as when we ~consider God
1440 Pref, Intro,Intro | one type or bits of both types. ~Saint Bonaventura might
1441 Pref, Intro,Intro | and yet complete; it is typical of his manner of thinking;
1442 Pref, Intro,Intro | philosophical method; ~it typifies the thinking of one of the
1443 Pref, Intro,Intro | deny the spirituality and ubiquity ~of God, and that is repugnant
1444 MendicantVision, 3,4 | except through the best and ultimate end. ~Human desire, therefore,
1445 Pref, Intro,Intro | which he ~readily admits is uncommunicable, in spite of the fact that
1446 Pref | ad Deum" is ~addressed to undergraduate students of the history
1447 Pref, Intro,Intro | to put a sound rational ~underpinning beneath their beliefs. Similarly,
1448 Pref, Intro,Intro | functions. Much of this ~was undoubtedly fortified by Saint Francis'
1449 MendicantVision, 3,2 | it follows that it has an undying light present to ~itself
1450 Pref, Intro,Intro | Bonaventura was far from being unique in thinking that this ~adjective
1451 MendicantVision, 3,2 | point, ~the instant, the unit - without which it is impossible
1452 MendicantVision, 7,5 | nonbeing and being; and unknowingly restore ~thyself to unity
1453 MendicantVision, 2,9 | present, are irrefragable ~and unquestionable rules of the judging intellect.
1454 MendicantVision, 2,9 | indubitably, irrefragably, unquestionably, ~unchangeably, boundlessly,
1455 | unto
1456 MendicantVision, 2,11 | exemplifications set before our yet untrained minds, limited to sensible ~
1457 Pref, Intro,Intro | triangles. We should, if untutored in the ~history of philosophy,
1458 MendicantVision, 1,15 | will fight against ~the unwise [Prov., 5, 21]; but to the
1459 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | brothers, though in all ways unworthy - it happened that by ~the
1460 MendicantVision, 2,13 | used ~for the air, and this usage survives in the English
1461 MendicantVision, 3,2 | so forget them while it uses reason that it ~will not
1462 Pref, Intro,Intro | contemporaries and predecessors utilized Biblical texts, ~and it
1463 MendicantVision, 5,6 | predicated ~because of its utter superabundance is applicable
1464 MendicantVision, 5,3 | Therefore, just as the ~utterly nothing contains nought
1465 Pref, Intro,Intro | enough. We still look in vain ~for the perfect exemplification
1466 Pref, Intro,Intro | religion would, I imagine, seek validation of their religious ~beliefs
1467 Pref, Intro,Intro | of the ~logical and the value-hierarchy was natural enough. We still
1468 Pref, Intro,Intro | logical ~classes, that of values, and that of reality. Elementary
1469 MendicantVision, 2,13 | verb, "sublimate," "to ~vaporize."~ ~ ~
1470 MendicantVision, 2,3 | the aerial, by odor the vaporous - all of which have ~something
1471 Pref, Intro,Intro | exemplification of animal and vegetable species, though we ~are
1472 MendicantVision, 2,2 | elements, like minerals, vegetables, sensible things, and human
1473 MendicantVision, 7,1 | is the stairway and the vehicle, like the propitiatory ~
1474 Pref, Intro,Biograph | in 1274, he was widely ~venerated during his lifetime and
1475 MendicantVision, 2,13 | survives in the English verb, "sublimate," "to ~vaporize."~ ~ ~
1476 MendicantVision, 6,4 | 20], that there may be verified ~what the Lord said in John, "
1477 Pref, Intro,Intro | believed by him that if every ~verse in the Bible was accepted
1478 Pref | am ~responsible for the version as it now appears. Any errors
1479 MendicantVision, 3,1 | ourselves, as if ~leaving the vestibule and coming into the sanctum,
1480 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | will ~hardly do to write vestiges or footprints, and traces
1481 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | difficulty ~in the Latin word "vestigia," which I have translated
1482 Pref, Intro,Intro | dogma of ~the Trinity (Ch. VI), though he realizes that
1483 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | are purged of the filth of vice, do I first invite the reader,
1484 Pref, Intro,Intro | various monks ~of Saint Victor, to realize that the confusion
1485 MendicantVision, 7,5 | if thou desirest mystic visions, with strengthened ~feet
1486 Pref, Intro,Intro | s nature as having been vitiated by sin - sin ~which, though
1487 MendicantVision, 5,7(2) | ratio intelligendi, et ordo vivendi."~
1488 Pref, Intro,Intro | beings speak with a physical voice; that He literally ~breathed
1489 MendicantVision, 7,5(1) | I [Migne, "Pat. Graec.," Vol. III, 997].~ ~ ~
1490 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Claras Aquas (Quaracchi), 10 vols., 1937.~ ~ ~Dady, Sister
1491 MendicantVision, 6,2 | hypostatic, ~natural and voluntary, free and necessary, lacking
1492 Pref | is a translation of the Vulgate, which, it goes ~without
1493 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | of Francis that his soul w as manifest in his flesh
1494 Pref, Intro,Intro | is not in space, actually walked in the Garden of Eden; that
1495 MendicantVision, 2,3 | aerial, something fiery or warm, as ~appears in the smoke
1496 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | Blessed are they that wash their robes in the ~blood
1497 MendicantVision, 4,4 | Principle, in the ~Powers He watches over us as Salvation, in
1498 Pref, Intro,Intro | four elements ~(earth, water, air, and fire), four seasons,
1499 Pref, Intro,Intro | and which we retain in ~weakened form in some of our pseudoheraldic
1500 Pref, Intro,Intro | authorities are consulted and weighed, multiple distinctions are
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