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1 MendicantVision, 1,15 | filled with Thy riches" [Ps., 103, 24].~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
2 MendicantVision, 7,6 | be it, so be it" ~[Ps., 105, 48]. AMEN.~ ~
3 MendicantVision, 4,6 | brightness of the saints [Ps., 109, 3] and in them, as in a ~
4 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | peace he was peaceable [Ps., 119, 7], "Pray ye for the things ~
5 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | peace of Jerusalem" [Ps., 121, 6]. For he knew that the ~
6 Pref, Intro,Biograph | born Giovanni di Fidanza in 1221. ~He entered the Franciscan
7 Pref, Intro,Biograph | the Franciscan order about 1242 and in the short space of ~
8 Pref, Intro,Biograph | shortly before his death in 1274, he was widely ~venerated
9 MendicantVision, 5,4 | illumination ~of the mind [Ps., 138, 11], just as when the eye
10 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Paradiso. He was canonized in 1482 by Sixtus IV and a little
11 Pref, Intro,Intro | of "Aeterni Patris," in 1879. ~That encyclical with its
12 Pref, Intro,Biblio | St. Bonaventure," Paris, 1924.~ ~ ~Healy, Sister Emma
13 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Aquas (Quaracchi), 10 vols., 1937.~ ~ ~Dady, Sister Mary Rachael, "
14 Pref | Quaracchi), fifth edition, 1938. Biblical quotations are
15 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | Cambridge: Harvard ~University, 1949).
16 Pref, Intro,Biblio | St. Bonaventura, N. Y., 1951.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
17 Pref, Intro,Intro | HOPKINS UNIVERSITY~July, 1953~ ~ ~ ~ ~
18 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | says in ~his Apocalypse [22, 14], "Blessed are they
19 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | man of desires [Dan., 9, 23]. But desires are kindled
20 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | s "Hexaemeron," XXII, 25-27, where each is explained.
21 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | the rays of light [Ps., 37, 9].~ ~ ~
22 MendicantVision, 3,3 | On True Religion" [Ch. 39, 72], "The light of all
23 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | the ~oil of gladness [Ps., 44, 8], to the lovers of divine
24 MendicantVision, 7,6 | it, so be it" ~[Ps., 105, 48]. AMEN.~ ~
25 MendicantVision, 2,13 | light of God [I Cor., 15, 57]. But thanks be to God through
26 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | Eph., 1, 17; Luke, 1, 79; Phil., 4, 7], which peace
27 MendicantVision, 1,1 | may fear Thy name" [Ps., 85, 11].~ ~ ~
28 MendicantVision, 1,15 | hands I shall rejoice [Ps., 91, 5]. . . . ~How great are
29 MendicantVision, 7,5(1) | Pat. Graec.," Vol. III, 997].~ ~ ~
30 MendicantVision, 7,5 | with strengthened ~feet abandon thy senses and intellectual
31 MendicantVision, 7,4 | intellectual operations should be ~abandoned, and the whole height of
32 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | place ~is in peace and His abode in Sion" [Ps., 75, 3].~ ~ ~
33 Pref, Intro,Intro | man, George Washington or Abraham ~Lincoln, was more real
34 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | 19]; who therefore so ~absorbed the mind of Francis that
35 Pref, Intro,Intro | religion, not merely a ~body of abstract knowledge. It was an experience
36 MendicantVision, 2,9 | about through the ~reason's abstracting from place, time, and change,
37 MendicantVision, 2,6 | faculty by purification and ~abstraction. And thus the whole world
38 MendicantVision, 2,6 | or motion. Therefore it ~abstracts from place, time, and motion,
39 MendicantVision, 4,3 | the first arises from the abundance of ~devotion, by which the
40 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | unitio," if my reading be acceptable).~ ~ ~
41 Pref, Intro,Intro | real assent occurs in the acceptance of the truths ~of observation.
42 MendicantVision, 3,5 | distinguished, not essentially or accidentally, but ~personally. When therefore
43 Pref, Intro,Intro | metaphysical problem ~was to accommodate one to the other. This accommodation
44 Pref, Intro,Intro | accommodate one to the other. This accommodation appears most ~clearly in
45 MendicantVision, 1,1 | accomplished unless it is accompanied by divine aid. Divine ~help,
46 Pref, Intro,Intro | following syllogism is logically accurate, but no one ~would believe
47 MendicantVision, 3,4 | Peter unless I know or am acquainted with Peter. Therefore the
48 MendicantVision, 5,7 | pure act. And as such it acquires nothing new nor does ~it
49 MendicantVision, 1,1 | source of ascent ("sursum-~actionis") in God. Therefore Dionysius,
50 MendicantVision, 1,14 | of power because of its activity; ~power is full of effects
51 MendicantVision, 6,2 | goodness, which ~is the pure actualization of the principle of Charity,
52 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Mind's Road to God." In addition to this little treatise, ~
53 MendicantVision, 7,5 | friend, however, to whom I address this book, let me ~say with
54 Pref | Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum" is ~addressed to undergraduate students
55 MendicantVision, 4,5 | he ~says. And our Saviour adds that all the Law and the
56 MendicantVision, 4,6 | 4, 9] while the ~spouse adjures it that it stir not up till
57 MendicantVision, 2,2 | attributed to them the administration of the universe by taking
58 Pref, Intro,Intro | knowledge which he ~readily admits is uncommunicable, in spite
59 MendicantVision, 1,15 | Him, ~praise Him, love and adore Him, magnify and honor Him,
60 MendicantVision, 1,14 | things clearly, and goodness adorning ~all things generously. "
61 MendicantVision, 1,0(1) | French ~translators have the advantage of those of us who write
62 MendicantVision, 3,1 | memory. And from this be advised, ~not with the eye of the
63 Pref, Intro,Intro | since the publication of "Aeterni Patris," in 1879. ~That
64 MendicantVision, 1,2 | spiritual, some temporal, ~some aeviternal; consequently some outside
65 MendicantVision, 4,3 | 17]. For it occurs in affective experience rather than in
66 Pref, Intro,Intro | such figurative terms as ~"affinity" in chemistry, or the "life
67 MendicantVision, 3,2 | another, ''One must ~either affirm or deny," or, "Every whole
68 MendicantVision, 3,3 | can be known only through ~affirmations in some positive sense,
69 MendicantVision, 2,5 | is proportional when the agent by impression supplies ~
70 MendicantVision, 7,5 | superresplendent, and in which all is aglow, ~pouring out upon the invisible
71 Pref, Intro,Intro | superficial since both would agree that God's existence could
72 MendicantVision, 2,5 | certain relation of parts with agreeable color. Or ~else proportion
73 MendicantVision, 2,5 | sight; or by reason of its agreeableness, as in odor and hearing;
74 MendicantVision, 1,1 | is accompanied by divine aid. Divine ~help, however,
75 MendicantVision, 1,1 | it in this vale of tears, aided only ~by fervent prayer.
76 MendicantVision, 4,4 | Light, in the Angels He aids as ~Piety."[ 3]~ ~ ~From
77 Pref, Intro,Biograph | University of Paris, Bishop of Albano, and created a ~cardinal
78 Pref, Intro,Intro | mention such figures as Alexander of ~Hales, the master of
79 MendicantVision, 5,8 | omnipotent, ~omniscient, and all-good. And to see this perfectly
80 Pref, Intro,Intro | texts must be ~interpreted allegorically, and he naturally believed
81 Pref, Intro,Intro | use made of arithmetic by allegorists, as early as Philo. ~Few
82 Pref, Intro,Intro | that he had the key to ~the allegory. Similarly the "Itinerarium,"
83 MendicantVision, 4,1 | itself through intelligence; ~allured by concupiscence, it never
84 | already
85 MendicantVision, 2,6 | pass away when there is alteration through change or motion.
86 | although
87 MendicantVision, 4,1 | contemplation. It seems amazing, however, when it is clear ~
88 MendicantVision, 7,6 | be it" ~[Ps., 105, 48]. AMEN.~ ~
89 | Among
90 | amongst
91 MendicantVision, 4,6 | clarity of understanding, the analogical which perfects us by mental ~
92 Pref, Intro,Intro | that knowledge in the last ~analysis comes down to seeing, to
93 Pref, Intro,Intro | arguments - where objections are analyzed, ~authorities are consulted
94 Pref, Intro,Intro | ideal or the general. In ancient ~Pagan thought, there was
95 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | our ~Lord Jesus Christ has announced and given to us; which lesson
96 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | whose preaching was the annunciation of ~peace both in the beginning
97 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | compunction and devotion, anointed with the ~oil of gladness [
98 MendicantVision, 2,6 | it is discovered that the answer is equality ~of proportion.
99 Pref, Intro,Intro | relationship was.~ ~ ~Plotinus answered the question by the invention
100 Pref, Intro,Intro | tradition ran a current of ~anti-intellectualism. Christianity was held to
101 Pref, Intro,Intro | Christian philosophers were anxious to put a sound rational ~
102 MendicantVision, 2,10 | and delight do not exit apart from proportion, and proportion
103 MendicantVision, 1,6 | intelligence, and ~the apex of the mind, the illumination
104 Pref, Intro,Intro | should be little need of apologizing for a new translation into ~
105 Pref, Intro,Intro | equipment, the ~sensory apparatus of the two men may and probably
106 MendicantVision, 2,2 | things themselves. This is apparent as follows: In the world ~
107 MendicantVision, 5,6 | utter superabundance is applicable to all things. For what ~
108 MendicantVision, 5,6 | superabundance cannot possibly be applied ~to anything but the one.[ 1]
109 MendicantVision, 1,15 | ears, open your lips, and apply ~your heart, that you may
110 MendicantVision, 7,2 | devotion, wonder, ~exultation, appreciation, praise, and jubilation,
111 MendicantVision, 2,7 | our ~God. For since the apprehended species is a likeness produced
112 MendicantVision, 2,5 | apprehension, if it be of the appropriate thing, there ~follows delight.
113 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | term which is used when one appropriates to a ~function what is really
114 MendicantVision, 2,5 | and touch, speaking with ~appropriation.[ 2] All delight, however,
115 MendicantVision, 3,2 | reason that it ~will not approve of them when heard and assent
116 MendicantVision, 3,3 | to which things have an aptitude and a comportment toward
117 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Opera Omnia," As Claras Aquas (Quaracchi), 10 vols., 1937.~ ~ ~
118 MendicantVision, 2,3 | intermediates, as by taste the ~aqueous, by hearing the aerial,
119 MendicantVision, 2,9 | as Augustine says [Lib. Arb., II, ch. 4], no one judges
120 MendicantVision, 6,3 | their properties, and yet arc essentially one. Since, ~
121 MendicantVision, 4,4 | operates as ~Virtue, in the Archangels He reveals as Light, in
122 MendicantVision, 3,3 | Therefore it comes from the archetype in eternal ~art according
123 Pref, Intro,Intro | Cathedral in terms of functional architecture as that is understood by ~
124 Pref, Intro,Intro | This assumption may be argued, but one can at least imagine
125 Pref, Intro,Intro | realization of the artist's idea. Arguing in this ~way, one could
126 Pref, Intro,Intro | be true without further argument or ~demonstration. On the
127 MendicantVision, 3,6 | which gives us skill in argumentation; rhetoric, which makes us ~
128 Pref, Intro,Intro | by a series of rational arguments - where objections are analyzed, ~
129 Pref, Intro,Intro | found in the use made of arithmetic by allegorists, as early
130 Pref, Intro,Intro | simple syllogism or a bit of arithmetical reasoning, how ~do we know
131 MendicantVision, 4,3 | like a pillar of smoke of aromatic ~spices, of myrrh and frankincense [
132 Pref, Intro,Intro | someone ~contemplating this arrangement of classes within other
133 MendicantVision, 6,7 | without, it [the mind] ~arrives at a perfect being in order
134 Pref, Intro,Intro | than scientific books and articles. But to a Christian thinker
135 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Theologiam" ("Reduction of the ~Arts to Theology"), the "Biblia
136 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | death of that blessed ~man I ascended to Mount Alverna as to a
137 MendicantVision, 7,1 | of Solomon by which one ascends to peace, where the truly ~
138 Pref, Intro,Intro | observation. If someone is asked why he thinks sugar is sweet,
139 Pref, Intro,Intro | has tasted it. If someone asks why a person ~believes that
140 MendicantVision, 1,4 | mind has three principal aspects. ~One refers to the external
141 Pref, Intro,Intro | reason were both supposed ~to assert something. Whether you believed
142 MendicantVision, 2,10 | On ~Music," wherein he assigns the differences of the numbers
143 Pref, Intro,Intro | of vertebrates.~ ~ ~If we assume, as most classical writers
144 MendicantVision, 4,2 | unless the Truth, having assumed human form in Christ, should
145 Pref, Intro,Intro | accept its author's various ~assumptions, both methodological and
146 MendicantVision, 5,1 | already entered into the atrium of the tabernacle; the ~
147 MendicantVision, 2,11 | the one contemplating ~and attaining wisdom to the eternal God;
148 Pref, Intro,Intro | discourage the Christian from attempting to build up rational ~systems
149 MendicantVision, 2,10 | senses which arise from ~attending to the species which have
150 MendicantVision, 5,1 | deals with God's essential attributes, ~the other with the properties
151 MendicantVision, 6,3 | spiration, because of the authority ~of the producer which every
152 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | method. The most readily available translation is that ~of
153 MendicantVision, 1,8 | wishes to ascend to God must, avoiding sin, which ~deforms nature,
154 MendicantVision, 1,15 | is blind; he who is not awakened by such great clamor is
155 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | Since ~they are somewhat awkward in English, I give the Latin
156 MendicantVision, 3,2 | eternal principles and the axioms of the sciences and retains
157 Pref | laid at my door.~ ~ ~G. B.~
158 MendicantVision, 5,2 | plurality of the Persons, ~by baptizing in the name of the Father
159 Pref, Intro,Intro | physical ~world. This is the basis of what sometimes is called
160 MendicantVision, 5,4 | very true that just as the bat's eye behaves in the light,
161 MendicantVision, 7,6 | flaming fire which will bear you aloft to God ~with fullest
162 MendicantVision, 1,1 | set [Ps., 83, 6]. Since beatitude is nothing else than the
163 Pref, Intro,Intro | best approach which the beginner ~could make to it.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
164 Pref, Intro,Intro | the "Itinerarium," which begins as a meditation ~upon the
165 MendicantVision, 3,5 | will; and He has both the begotten Word and ~spirated Love.
166 MendicantVision, 7,1 | Sabbath of ~rest after it has beheld God outside itself through
167 MendicantVision, 7,1 | have come to the point of beholding in the ~first and highest
168 Pref, Intro,Intro | representative ~documents which it behooves all students of intellectual
169 Pref, Intro,Intro | thought, there was a standard belief that no particular was ever
170 MendicantVision, 1,12 | second mode, the aspect of a believer considering this world, ~
171 Pref, Intro,Intro | entered the human body Thus a bell may be ringing and therefore
172 Pref, Intro,Intro | which Saint ~Bonaventura belonged.~ ~ ~The full effect of
173 | below
174 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Washington, D. C., 1939.~ ~ ~De Benedictis, Matthew M., "The Social
175 MendicantVision, 1,10 | supreme power and wisdom and ~benevolence in created things, as the
176 | Besides
177 Pref, Intro,Intro | ideas ~that appeared in the Bestiaries and Lapidaries, and which
178 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | clear and polished.~ ~ ~Bestir yourself then, O man of
179 MendicantVision, 2,11 | They are signs divinely bestowed which, I say, are exemplars
180 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Arts to Theology"), the "Biblia Pauperum" ("Bible of the
181 Pref, Intro,Biblio | SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY~ ~ ~St. Bonaventura, "Breviloquium,"
182 Pref, Intro,Biograph | BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON ST. BONAVENTURA~ ~ ~
183 Pref, Intro,Intro | or the "life force" in biology, or the "life cycle ~of
184 Pref, Intro,Intro | objects - the sun, the birds, the rain, and so on - in
185 MendicantVision, 3,6 | Principle, which has no birth; the ~second, the family
186 Pref, Intro,Biograph | the University of Paris, Bishop of Albano, and created a ~
187 Pref, Intro,Intro | a simple syllogism or a bit of arithmetical reasoning,
188 Pref, Intro,Intro | satisfied with one type or bits of both types. ~Saint Bonaventura
189 MendicantVision, 2,6 | whether something is white or black, for this pertains to a
190 MendicantVision, 2,13 | know ~God in them all, to bless Him and to love Him, are
191 MendicantVision, 1,7 | concupiscence his ~flesh. Hence man, blinded and bent, sits in the shadows
192 MendicantVision, 5,4 | 4~Marvelous then is the blindness of the intellect which does
193 Pref, Intro,Intro | it.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~GEORGE BOAS~THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY~
194 MendicantVision, 5,8 | causes the universe to move" [Boethius, Cons. III, met. 9]. Because
195 Pref, Intro,Biblio | La Philosophie de St. Bonaventure," Paris, 1924.~ ~ ~Healy,
196 MendicantVision, 7,6 | chooseth hanging and my bones death" [Job, 7, 15]. He
197 Pref, Intro,Intro | anything other ~than scientific books and articles. But to a Christian
198 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | manifest in his flesh and ~he bore the most holy stigmata of
199 Pref, Intro,Intro | emanation, since he was bound by his ~religious faith
200 MendicantVision, 6,5 | everywhere and yet never bounded, most actual and never moved,
201 MendicantVision, 2,9 | they are necessary, and boundless since they are ~inimitable,
202 MendicantVision, 2,9 | unquestionably, ~unchangeably, boundlessly, endlessly, indivisibly,
203 MendicantVision, 6,5 | immense and infinite ~without bounds, one to the highest degree
204 Pref | words and phrases ~in square brackets. In two places, indicated
205 Pref, Intro,Intro | auditory nerves and auditory brain centers, he will ~never
206 Pref, Intro,Intro | the ~Lion, and the Olive Branch; or the use of certain colors,
207 Pref | have taken the liberty of breaking up a few of the longer ~
208 Pref, Intro,Intro | the breath of life as we breathe our breath into ~things.[1]
209 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | blessed father Francis, I ~breathlessly sought this peace, I, a
210 MendicantVision, 4,3 | Him, he can sing like the Bride a ~Canticle of Canticles,
211 Pref, Intro,Intro | and will do their best to bring all their beliefs into ~
212 MendicantVision, 4,2 | the first ladder which was broken in Adam.~ ~ ~Therefore,
213 MendicantVision, 4,5 | neighbor and God, at once brother and Lord, at once king and
214 MindRoad,Prologue,2 | Minister ~General of the brothers, though in all ways unworthy -
215 Pref, Intro,Intro | Christian from attempting to build up rational ~systems which
216 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | H. A. Wolfson s "Philo" (Cambridge: Harvard ~University, 1949).
217 MendicantVision, 3,1 | before our minds as in a candelabrum, ~for in it gleams the resplendent
218 Pref, Intro,Intro | classes as light flowed from a candle. Such ~metaphors have been
219 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Dante's ~Paradiso. He was canonized in 1482 by Sixtus IV and
220 MendicantVision, 2,8 | which employs our ~entire capacity, obviously it can be seen
221 MendicantVision, 5,8 | below all, and yet not cast down beneath them. Because
222 Pref, Intro,Intro | terms nor justify Chartres ~Cathedral in terms of functional architecture
223 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | Who so transformed Paul, "caught up into the third heaven" [
224 MendicantVision, 5,7(2) | In Latin: "causa essendi, ratio intelligendi,
225 Pref, Intro,Intro | each man is the terminus of causal events which ~diverge from
226 MendicantVision, 5,8 | all power, all ~exemplary causality, and all communicability.
227 MendicantVision, 6,7 | alpha and the omega, the caused and the cause, the creator ~
228 Pref, Intro,Intro | nerves and auditory brain centers, he will ~never experience
229 MendicantVision, 6,2 | creation is nothing else than central and punctiform with respect
230 MendicantVision, 4,6 | 3] and in them, as in a ~chamber, it may sleep in peace and
231 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | in ~that mirror, lest by chance you fall into the lower
232 MendicantVision, 3,3 | since our mind itself is changeable, it ~cannot see that truth
233 Pref, Intro,Intro | modern terms nor justify Chartres ~Cathedral in terms of functional
234 Pref, Intro,Intro | terms as ~"affinity" in chemistry, or the "life force" in
235 MendicantVision, 4,3 | to the Apostle, ~is the child of the heavenly Jerusalem.
236 MendicantVision, 7,6 | death" [Job, 7, 15]. He who ~chooses this death can see God because
237 MendicantVision, 7,6 | who says, ~"My soul rather chooseth hanging and my bones death" [
238 Pref, Intro,Intro | of ~anti-intellectualism. Christianity was held to be a religion,
239 Pref, Intro,Intro | mathematical ~concepts, such as circles and triangles. We should,
240 MendicantVision, 5,6(1) | editors of the Latin text cite this as a quotation from
241 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | of contemplation, as ~a citizen of that Jerusalem of which
242 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | in by the gates into the City"; as if he were to say that
243 MendicantVision, 4,4(3) | St. Bernard of Clairvaux to Pope Eugenius III.~
244 MendicantVision, 1,15 | not awakened by such great clamor is deaf; he ~who does not
245 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Opera Omnia," As Claras Aquas (Quaracchi), 10 vols.,
246 MendicantVision, 5,8 | through most simple unity, ~clearest truth, and most sincere
247 MendicantVision, 7,2 | on the cross to the thief cleaving to Christ: ''Today thou ~
248 MendicantVision, 2,10 | most evident to all and closest to God, it leads most ~directly
249 MendicantVision, 4,3 | our mind must therefore be clothed also in the three ~theological
250 MendicantVision, 1,5 | out of the midst of the cloud [Ex., ~21, 16]; and Christ
251 MendicantVision, 3,3 | and place themselves ~like clouds between you and the rays
252 MendicantVision, 6,6 | co-eternity with production, co-~intimacy with mission, for
253 MendicantVision, 6,2 | aforesaid, the greatest co-intimacy, by which one is in ~the
254 MendicantVision, 6,2 | dilectus") in ~itself and co-loved ("condilectus"), generated,
255 MendicantVision, 6,2 | eternal ~principle eternally co-producing and would be beloved ("dilectus")
256 MendicantVision, 6,2 | all these ~the greatest coequality; and therefore the greatest
257 MendicantVision, 6,2 | and therefore the greatest coeternity as well as, ~because of
258 MendicantVision, 3,5 | consubstantial, ~coequal, and coeval, mutually immanent. If then
259 MendicantVision, 2,7 | likeness of the invisible God [Col., ~1, 15] and "the brightness
260 MendicantVision, 2,3 | luminous, and other colored bodies; through touch the
261 MendicantVision, 3,3 | enlighteneth ~every man that cometh into this world [John, 1,
262 MendicantVision, 3,1 | leaving the vestibule and coming into the sanctum, that is,
263 MendicantVision, 4,4 | ordination, strengthening, command, reception, divine illumination,
264 Pref, Intro,Intro | that he had a motive for committing it, that he ~threatened
265 Pref, Intro,Intro | we are dealing with the common-~sense point of view here,
266 Pref, Intro,Intro | It had become a ~medieval commonplace which few were willing to
267 MendicantVision, 6,3 | whole and not the part is communicated, therefore it is itself
268 MendicantVision, 6,2 | which the diffusive power ~communicates its whole substance and
269 MendicantVision, 6,3 | if there is the greatest communication and true ~diffusion, there
270 Pref, Intro,Intro | Hume's "Enquiry" in its compactness ~and suggestiveness, it
271 MendicantVision, 7,3 | others have heard from the companion who was ~with him when he
272 Pref, Intro,Intro | Bonaventura did believe in its comparability, and he identified the ~
273 Pref, Intro,Intro | that it may be used in the comparative and superlative ~degrees.
274 MendicantVision, 6,3 | contemplating the truth ; when you ~compare them with one another, you
275 Pref, Intro,Intro | Saint Bonaventura might be compared to the man who insists on
276 Pref, Intro,Intro | incognitae. And when one compares science as it ~was before
277 Pref, Intro,Intro | Gospels, four points of the compass, four winds, four elements ~(
278 MendicantVision, 3,4 | if it solves its problems completely.~ ~ ~Now desire is of that
279 MendicantVision, 2,2 | the generated are bodies composed of the ~elements, like minerals,
280 MendicantVision, 3,3 | meaning of terms when it comprehends what anything is through
281 MendicantVision, 3,3 | since error is impossible in comprehension of this sort. For it knows ~
282 Pref, Intro,Intro | individual things were comprised.~ ~ ~This hierarchy of Being
283 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | pious, to those filled with compunction and devotion, anointed with
284 MendicantVision, 3,6 | and physics. The ~first concerns the essences of things;
285 Pref, Intro,Intro | then one may reasonably conclude that ~their sensations are
286 Pref, Intro,Intro | refer as one of universal concord.~ ~ ~The metaphysical point
287 MendicantVision, 6,2 | in ~itself and co-loved ("condilectus"), generated, and spirated
288 MendicantVision, 6,6 | plurality of dignities, a ~condominium with plurality of powers~ ~ ~
289 MendicantVision, 1,1 | say to the Lord our God, "Conduct me, ~O Lord, in Thy way,
290 Pref, Intro,Intro | best illustration of this conflict ~is found in the use made
291 MendicantVision, 4,4 | mount ~upward through its conformity to the heavenly Jerusalem,
292 Pref, Intro,Intro | Stoics had ~a tendency to confuse goodness with the ideal
293 MendicantVision, 2,8 | If, then, delight is the conjunction of the harmonious, and the
294 MendicantVision, 2,10 | classification because they are connected with the judicial ~number
295 MendicantVision, 3,3 | however, this necessary connection, not only in ~things which
296 MendicantVision, 5,8 | universe to move" [Boethius, Cons. III, met. 9]. Because most ~
297 Pref, Intro,Intro | purpose of deducing their consequences or whether ~they are the
298 MendicantVision, 1,4 | Mark, 12, 30]. And in this consists both the perfect ~observance
299 Pref, Intro,Biograph | because of his mysticism and constant ~preoccupation with the
300 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | whole ~matter, he should consult H. A. Wolfson s "Philo" (
301 Pref, Intro,Intro | analyzed, ~authorities are consulted and weighed, multiple distinctions
302 MendicantVision, 5,7 | end, the beginning and the consummation, the alpha and the omega. ~
303 Pref | of the Franciscan Fathers contained in "Tria Opuscula" ~(Quaracchi),
304 MendicantVision, 2,1 | it happens that ~God is contemplated not only through them, as
305 MendicantVision, 7,1 | which the mind of the truly ~contemplative man grows strong to rise
306 Pref, Intro,Intro | manner in ~which its author's contemporaries and predecessors utilized
307 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | with titles so that their contents may be the more easily understood.
308 Pref, Intro,Intro | Francis had on Mount Alverna, continues as an ~interpretation in
309 Pref, Intro,Intro | may discover truths which contradict ~what he has believed on
310 MendicantVision, 3,2 | which cannot be rationally contradicted.~ ~ ~From the first actual
311 Pref, Intro,Intro | uneasy in the presence of ~contradiction and will do their best to
312 Pref, Intro,Intro | believing in it rather than its contradictory. It was all very well for ~
313 MendicantVision, 2,2 | light which ~reconciles the contrariety of elements in mixtures,
314 MendicantVision, 5,3 | nor of its conditions, so ~contrariwise Being itself contains no
315 Pref, Intro,Intro | believe ~things which were contrary to reason. Thus we should
316 Pref, Intro,Intro | experience. One has only to contrast this with the method of
317 Pref, Intro,Intro | men may and probably does contribute something ~to even the most
318 Pref, Intro,Intro | God and ~are not simply convenient groupings made by man for
319 MendicantVision, 1,8 | penetrating meditation, holy conversation, and devout prayer. Just
320 Pref, Intro,Intro | a blind man who might be convinced that there were ~such things
321 MendicantVision, 1,13 | that some are mutable and ~corruptible, as earthly things; others
322 Pref, Intro,Intro | attempt to ~translate Dante's cosmology into modern terms nor justify
323 MendicantVision, 2,5(2) | speaks of the Father as ~creating the world, whereas he believes
324 Pref, Intro,Intro | stand up under ~rational criticism, but would insist that his
325 Pref, Intro,Intro | the satisfaction of idle ~curiosity, but the fulfillment of
326 Pref, Intro,Intro | today would play upon the curious properties of numbers-~-
327 Pref, Intro,Intro | in biology, or the "life cycle ~of a nation" in history,
328 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Quaracchi), 10 vols., 1937.~ ~ ~Dady, Sister Mary Rachael, "The
329 MendicantVision, 5,2 | God alone ~[Luke, 18, 19]. Damascenus ["De fide orthodox.," 1,
330 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | Daniel a ~man of desires [Dan., 9, 23]. But desires are
331 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | elevation unless one be with Daniel a ~man of desires [Dan.,
332 MendicantVision, 3,1 | is to see through a glass darkly [I Cor., 13, 12].~ ~ ~
333 Pref, Intro,Intro | which it became after that date, ~one sees that only a strong
334 MendicantVision, 4,8 | house of God; become the daughter, the spouse, ~and the friend
335 MendicantVision, 7,6 | 9]; ~let us exult with David, saying, "For Thee my flesh
336 MendicantVision, 4,3 | the soul becomes as the dawn, the moon, and ~the sun,
337 MendicantVision, 7,2 | the tomb as if ~outwardly dead, yet knowing, as far as
338 MendicantVision, 1,15 | by such great clamor is deaf; he ~who does not praise
339 Pref, Intro,Intro | to be thought, but we are dealing with the common-~sense point
340 MendicantVision, 3,4 | creature which errs and is deceived when it ~takes truth's image
341 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | 5~I have decided to divide my treatise into
342 Pref, Intro,Biograph | little over a century ~later declared a doctor of the church by
343 MendicantVision, 1,14 | because of its efficiency - declares the same ~manifestly. "Operation,"
344 MendicantVision, 4,8 | faith, elevated by hope, and dedicated to God by the sanctity of
345 Pref, Intro,Intro | observation. Again, when we deduce a conclusion from a set
346 Pref, Intro,Intro | merely for the purpose of deducing their consequences or whether ~
347 Pref | vision there depicted.~ ~ ~My deepest thanks are given to the
348 MendicantVision, 7,5 | mysteries of theology are deeply hidden, ~according to the
349 MendicantVision, 3,3 | intellect know that a ~being is defective and incomplete if it had
350 MendicantVision, 3,3 | composite; since privations and defects can be known only through ~
351 MendicantVision, 3,3 | which the lower cannot be defined. Unless, therefore, it is
352 MendicantVision, 1,6 | implanted in us by nature, deformed by sin, reformed by grace, ~
353 MendicantVision, 1,8 | must, avoiding sin, which ~deforms nature, exercise the above-mentioned
354 Pref, Intro,Intro | downward" ~from Being was degeneration. When one stops to think
355 MendicantVision, 2,2 | according to the apprehension, delectation, and judgment ~of sensible
356 MendicantVision, 3,4 | made it. ~Therefore our deliberative faculty in judging reaches
357 MendicantVision, 4,3 | fragrance, taste the highest delicacy, apprehend the highest delights,
358 Pref, Intro,Intro | than in believing something demonstrably true. ~Most Christian philosophers
359 Pref, Intro,Intro | rational ~systems which would demonstrate to the world of scholars
360 Pref, Intro,Intro | could not be rationally ~demonstrated, nevertheless they all,
361 Pref, Intro,Intro | pushed ~their rational demonstrations as far as they were able.
362 MendicantVision, 4,5 | the Law and the Prophets depend upon ~these two Commandments:
363 MendicantVision, 3,3 | transient or permanent, as ~dependent or independent, as mixed
364 Pref | meditation upon the vision there depicted.~ ~ ~My deepest thanks are
365 Pref, Intro,Intro | Bonaventura, ~though he did not derive it immediately from Plotinus.
366 MendicantVision, 2,6 | our delight which sense derives ~from the object. This happens
367 MendicantVision, 4,4 | unless through grace it has descended into his heart, as John
368 MendicantVision, 2,10 | lowest, there is an ordered descent. Thence do ~we ascend step
369 Pref, Intro,Biograph | vision of the Seraph which is described in the ~Prologue to "The
370 Pref, Intro,Intro | who had read an eloquent ~description of a great painting, but
371 Pref, Intro,Intro | acquaintance with, rather than descriptions of, them. In ~other words,
372 MendicantVision, 7,2 | cross from Egypt into the Desert, where he ~may taste the
373 MendicantVision, 7,5 | then, my friend, if thou desirest mystic visions, with strengthened ~
374 Pref, Intro,Intro | Exodus and Isaiah in which details of the ~vision are paralleled.
375 MendicantVision, 2,11 | falling to our feet, we can determine that ~all creatures of this
376 Pref, Intro,Intro | prose poem, with a dramatic ~development of its own as one rises
377 MendicantVision, 1,8 | holy conversation, and devout prayer. Just as grace ~is
378 MendicantVision, 1,1 | their hearts humbly and ~devoutly; and this means to sigh
379 Pref, Intro,Biograph | Tuscany, was born Giovanni di Fidanza in 1221. ~He entered
380 Pref, Intro,Intro | goes so far as to attempt a dialectical proof of the dogma of ~the
381 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | They run: ~"nuntiatio, dictatio, ductio, ordinatio, roboratio,
382 MendicantVision, 7,6 | Exod., 33, 20]. Let us then die and pass over into ~darkness;
383 Pref, Intro,Intro | contemplating them, the only difference being that Lord Russell
384 MendicantVision, 2,10 | consideration of the seven different ~kinds of number by which,
385 MendicantVision, 2,10 | to God as if by the seven differentiae. It causes Him to be known ~
386 Pref, Intro,Intro | and it ~presents only the difficulties which any medieval philosophical
387 MendicantVision, 6,2 | good, for it would not diffuse itself most highly. For
388 MendicantVision, 1,14 | inner, ~continuous, and diffused operation, as appears in
389 MendicantVision, 6,2 | to wit, that in which the diffusive power ~communicates its
390 MendicantVision, 6,6 | things with plurality of dignities, a ~condominium with plurality
391 MendicantVision, 6,2 | co-producing and would be beloved ("dilectus") in ~itself and co-loved ("
392 MendicantVision, 2,9 | change, and therefore from ~dimension, succession, and transmutation,
393 MendicantVision, 2,6 | spread out through a thing's dimensions; nor does it change and ~
394 MendicantVision, 2,9 | form in all things, the directing rule by which our ~mind
395 MendicantVision, 1,11 | 11, 21] - ~weight, which directs things to a certain location;[ 2]
396 Pref, Intro,Intro | realize that the confusion and disagreement which ~certain writers of
397 MendicantVision, 1,13 | finally, are, live, and discern. And the first are lesser
398 MendicantVision, 1,5 | Matthew [17, 1], brought ~His disciples up into a mountain and was
399 Pref, Intro,Intro | man has only to follow the discipline ~which will lead him to
400 Pref, Intro,Intro | learning. ~This did not discourage the Christian from attempting
401 MendicantVision, 2,6 | and wholesome. And it is discovered that the answer is equality ~
402 MendicantVision, 3,2 | principles of continuous and discrete quantities - the point, ~
403 Pref, Intro,Intro | which Saint Bonaventura ~discusses "Good" as the name of God,
404 Pref, Intro,Intro | usually introduced into the ~discussion at this point, the assumption
405 Pref, Intro,Intro | miscomprehension has been disparagement of writings ~other than
406 Pref, Intro,Intro | identical ~with them. If we distinguish between existential and
407 MendicantVision, 2,9 | preserver of all and the distinguisher of all, as the ~being who
408 MendicantVision, 1,14 | things from ~nothing, wisdom distinguishing all things clearly, and
409 MendicantVision, 4,1 | hand. For the human ~mind, distracted by cares, does not enter
410 Pref, Intro,Intro | of causal events which ~diverge from a given point and which
411 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | 5~I have decided to divide my treatise into seven chapters,
412 Pref, Intro,Intro | both methodological and doctrinal, and begin from there. There ~
413 Pref, Intro,Intro | dialectical proof of the dogma of ~the Trinity (Ch. VI),
414 MendicantVision, 1,15 | Lord, a delight in Thy ~doings: and in the works of Thy
415 MendicantVision, 4,4 | Equity, in the Dominations He dominates as ~Majesty, in the Principalities
416 MendicantVision, 4,4 | seated as Equity, in the Dominations He dominates as ~Majesty,
417 Pref, Intro,Biograph | been ~known as the Seraphic Donor, probably because of his
418 Pref | quotations are taken from the ~Douay Bible, since that is a translation
419 MendicantVision, 1,7 | race by original sin, which doubly ~infected human nature,
420 Pref, Intro,Intro | Plotinus' ~case there is little doubt that he believed emanation
421 Pref, Intro,Intro | of mankind though it is doubtful ~whether we should proceed
422 Pref, Intro,Intro | so on. Hence the process "downward" ~from Being was degeneration.
423 Pref | which improved my first draft. I have ~accepted all of
424 Pref, Intro,Intro | kind of prose poem, with a dramatic ~development of its own
425 MendicantVision, 6,6 | trinity of substances and a duality of natures, an ~absolute
426 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | nuntiatio, dictatio, ductio, ordinatio, roboratio, imperatio,
427 MendicantVision, 6,2 | pouring forth free ~and due love, and both mingled together,
428 MendicantVision, 1,15 | of all these effects is dumb; he who does ~not note the
429 Pref, Intro,Intro | Franciscans like Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, and their great
430 MendicantVision, 4,4 | in the minds in which He dwells through the gifts of His
431 Pref, Intro,Biblio | D. C., 1946.~ ~ ~Gilson, E. H., "La Philosophie de
432 Pref, Intro,Intro | pseudoheraldic symbols, such as the Eagle, the ~Lion, and the Olive
433 MindRoad,Prologue,5 | contents may be the more easily understood. I ask ~therefore
434 MendicantVision, 4,6 | Of this hierarch and this ecclesiastical hierarchy is the entire
435 MendicantVision, 1,9 | filled with my fruits" [Ecclesiasticus, 24, 26]. For by ~the greatness
436 MendicantVision, 2,11 | God; for they are shadows, echoes, and ~pictures, the traces,
437 Pref, Intro,Intro | walked in the Garden of Eden; that He ~spoke as human
438 Pref | Opuscula" ~(Quaracchi), fifth edition, 1938. Biblical quotations
439 MendicantVision, 5,6(1) | The editors of the Latin text cite this
440 MendicantVision, 1,14 | of effects because of its efficiency - declares the same ~manifestly. "
441 MendicantVision, 5,7 | reason it is the universal efficient cause of ~all things, the
442 Pref, Intro,Intro | only by means of a more elaborate figure of speech or by having ~
443 MendicantVision, 5,2 | Master Christ, wishing to elevate the youth who had ~served
444 MindRoad,Prologue,3 | pass into peace by ecstatic elevations of Christian wisdom. ~The
445 MendicantVision, 7,5 | sublime summit of mystical eloquence, where new and ~absolute
446 Pref, Intro,Intro | like a man who had read an eloquent ~description of a great
447 Pref, Intro,Intro | explain how lower orders emanated from higher, he ~could do
448 MendicantVision, 6,1 | contemplation of the divine emanations [of the ~Trinity].~ ~ ~
449 Pref | footnotes, I have made ~slight emendations to the text. Students who
450 Pref, Intro,Biblio | 1924.~ ~ ~Healy, Sister Emma Therese, "Saint Bonaventura'
451 Pref, Intro,Intro | sees that only a strong emotional propulsion would have produced
452 MendicantVision, 3,6 | persuasion or stirring the emotions. And this similarly images ~
453 Pref, Intro,Intro | Itinerarium" Saint Bonaventura emphasizes that knowledge in the last ~
454 Pref, Intro,Intro | mystic, like the ~strict empiricist, has a kind of knowledge
455 Pref, Intro,Intro | allegorical method was ~employed in interpreting Scripture.
456 Pref, Intro,Intro | blind, reason without faith empty.~ ~ ~The difficulty with
457 MendicantVision, 5,8 | most present, ~therefore it encompasses and penetrates all duration,
458 Pref, Intro,Intro | Patris," in 1879. ~That encyclical with its emphasis upon Thomism
459 MendicantVision, 1,12 | believe that the world will be ended at the ~last judgment -
460 MendicantVision, 2,9 | unchangeably, boundlessly, endlessly, indivisibly, and intellectually.
461 MendicantVision, 2,6 | unchangeable, ~inimitable, without ends, and in all ways spiritual.
462 Pref, Intro,Intro | is understood by ~modern engineers. This book is a kind of
463 MindRoad,Prologue,1 | father and leader, He may enlighten the eyes of our ~mind to
464 MendicantVision, 1,2 | 2~By praying thus one is enlightened about the knowledge of the
465 MendicantVision, 3,7 | prophecy is fulfilled: ~"Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting
466 MendicantVision, 3,3 | knows in that light which enlighteneth ~every man that cometh into
467 MendicantVision, 1,8 | will's rectitude and of the enlightenment of clear ~and penetrating
468 Pref, Intro,Intro | s Monadology, or Hume's "Enquiry" in its compactness ~and
469 Pref, Intro,Intro | is not merely logically entailed in the ~premises, but true
470 Pref, Intro,Intro | doubted. For the psychological equipment, the ~sensory apparatus
471 MendicantVision, 4,4 | Thrones He is seated as Equity, in the Dominations He dominates
472 MendicantVision, 4,4(2) | English, I give the Latin equivalents in ~order. They are so similar
473 MendicantVision, 3,3 | is simply to ~know, since error is impossible in comprehension
474 Pref | version as it now appears. Any errors in the ~translation, footnotes,
475 MendicantVision, 3,4 | for it by a creature which errs and is deceived when it ~
476 Pref, Intro,Intro | a great rationalist, an ~erudite theologian, a doctor, to
477 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Breviloquium," tr. by Erwin Esser Nemmers, St. Louis
478 MendicantVision, 5,7(2) | In Latin: "causa essendi, ratio intelligendi, et
479 MendicantVision, 6,5 | when you contemplate the essentials of God and ~you wonder because
480 Pref, Intro,Biblio | Breviloquium," tr. by Erwin Esser Nemmers, St. Louis an ~London,
481 MendicantVision, 1,14 | efficacy beyond all human estimation, clearly indicates and ~
482 MendicantVision, 1,3 | of one day, first as the evening, second as ~the morning,
483 Pref, Intro,Intro | that for granted. In any event Saint ~Bonaventura did believe
484 Pref, Intro,Intro | is the terminus of causal events which ~diverge from a given
485 MendicantVision, 2,10 | wisdom. Since this is most evident to all and closest to God,
486 Pref, Intro,Intro | one might without too much exaggeration maintain that the impetus ~
487 MendicantVision, 6,6 | plurality of ~ranks, an equal exaltation above all things with plurality
488 MendicantVision, 6,7 | humanity now ~wonderfully exalted, now ineffably united, by
489 MindRoad,Prologue,4 | investigate without wonder, examine without ~exultation, work
490 Pref, Intro,Intro(1) | Allegorical Interpretation" ~for examples of his method. The most
491 MendicantVision, 2,9 | 9~By a more excellent and immediate way are we
492 MendicantVision, 6,3 | eyes to the goodness that ~excels all goodness. For if there
493 MendicantVision, 4,3 | accordance with those three exclamations which are in the ~Canticle
494 MendicantVision, 5,8 | them; ~beyond all, but not excluded from them; above all, but
495 Pref, Intro,Intro | to him who puts his trust exclusively in ~circumstantial evidence,
496 Pref, Intro,Intro | distinctions, and textual exegeses. ~It is not a commentary
497 MendicantVision, 2,11 | bestowed which, I say, are exemplars or rather ~exemplifications
498 MendicantVision, 2,11 | are exemplars or rather ~exemplifications set before our yet untrained
499 Pref, Intro,Intro | species would ever perfectly exemplify its ~genus, no genus its
500 MendicantVision, 2,11 | of that art ~productive, exemplifying, and ordering, given to
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