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It happens that we may contemplate God not only outside of us but also

within us and above us. [Thus we contemplate Him] outside through His

traces, inside through His image, and above us through His light, which has

signed upon our minds the light of eternal Truth, since the mind itself is

immediately formed by Truth itself. Those who exercise themselves in the

first manner have already entered into the atrium of the tabernacle; the

second have entered into the sanctum; but the third have entered into the

Holy of Holies with the High Priest, the Holy of Holies where above the ark

are the Cherubim of glory overshadowing the propitiatory. By these modes we

understand two ways or degrees of contemplation of the invisible and

eternal things of God, of which one deals with God's essential attributes,

the other with the properties of the Persons.