Par.

 1 Pre|         brief work (the Monologium) as an example of meditation
 2 Pre|       despair I was about to cease, as if from the search for a
 3 Pre|            the first might be known as, An Example of Meditation
 4 Pre|            of Faith, and its sequel as, Faith Seeking Understanding.
 5 1  |          save that of God, and such as can aid you in seeking him;
 6 2  |           to faith, give me, so far as you knowest it to be profitable,
 7 2  |             understand that you are as we believe; and that you
 8 4  |          thing itself is understood As far as the word goes, God
 9 4  |         itself is understood As far as the word goes, God can be
10 5  |             than not to be; and he, as the only self-existent being,
11 5  |             you, except that which, as the highest of all beings,
12 6  |            functions of his senses; as through sight, of colors;
13 6  |             highest degree; and not as an animal cognises, through
14 7  |          make what is true, false --as, for example, if you should
15 7  |            a figure of speech, just as many words are improperly
16 7  |             are improperly applied, as when we use "to be" for "
17 7  |      existence of something: "It is as you say it to be," though
18 7  |          proper to say, "It is not, as you say it is not." In the
19 7  |            say, "This man sits just as that man does," or, "This
20 7  |            or, "This man rests just as that man does"; although
21 10 |         sparing the wicked, you are as just, according to your
22 10 |          but not according to ours, as you are compassionate, according
23 10 |    according to yours; seeing that, as in saving us, whom it would
24 10 |          not because you requite us as we deserve, but because
25 10 |           do that which becomes you as the supremely good Being.
26 11 |     compassionate, and passionless, as you are living, wise, good,
27 13 |   uncircumscribed is that which is, as a whole, at the same time
28 13 |          which, when it is anywhere as a whole, can at the same
29 13 |         same time be somewhere else as a whole, and yet not everywhere.
30 13 |              And this is recognised as true of created spirits.
31 13 |           For, if the soul were not as a whole in the separate
32 13 |             body, it would not feel as a whole in the separate
33 14 |          part, but has not seen you as you are? Lord my God, my
34 16 |            I see, I see through it, as the weak eye sees what it
35 18 |              But everywhere you are as a whole, and your eternity
36 18 |            and your eternity exists as a whole forever.~ ~
37 19 |            does your eternity exist as a whole forever? Or is it
38 19 |            of it is destined to be, as if it were not yet?~You
39 20 |          eternity of God is present as a whole with him; while
40 20 |      eternity and theirs is present as a whole with you; while
41 20 |     eternity which is to come, just as they no longer have that
42 21 |          age, or ages of ages? For, as an age of time contains
43 22 |              or in any way, you are as a whole and forever. And
44 22 |            nor can you be conceived as at any time non-existent.
45 23 |     yourself; for the Word is true, as you are truthful. And, hence,
46 23 |            it is truth itself, just as you are; no other truth
47 24 |            CHAPTER XXIV.~Conjecture as to the character and the
48 24 | understanding, and conceive, so far as you can, of what character
49 24 |             all goods; and not such as we have experienced in created
50 24 |             in created objects, but as different as the Creator
51 24 |           objects, but as different as the Creator from the creature.
52 25 |          body and soul will be such as eye has not seen nor ear
53 25 |           the righteous shine forth as the sun (Matthew xiii. 43)
54 25 |          delight you, they shall be as angels of God, --because
55 25 |         themselves, and one another as themselves. And God shall
56 25 |         power to fulfil their will, as God to fulfil his. For,
57 25 |             God to fulfil his. For, as God will have power to do
58 25 |             do what they will. For, as they will not will anything
59 25 |           undoubtedly they shall be as sure that those goods, or
60 25 |           and in no wise fail them; as they shall be sure that
61 25 |             you did love altogether as yourself possessed the same
62 25 |         same joy, you would rejoice as much for each one as for
63 25 |        rejoice as much for each one as for yourself, if you did
64 25 |      yourself, if you did love each as yourself. Hence, in that
65 25 |      rejoice for each of the others as for himself.~If, then, the
66 25 |            one loves another so far as he rejoices in the other'
67 25 |            in the other's good, and as, in that perfect felicity,
68 26 |             shall rejoice according as they shall love; and they
69 26 |           they shall love according as they shall know.~My God
70 26 |             shall rejoice according as they shall love; and they
71 26 |           they shall love according as they shall know. How far
72 26 |             be full. I ask, O Lord, as you do counsel through our