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Our mind, filled with all these intellectual illuminations, is inhabited

by the divine wisdom as the house of God; become the daughter, the spouse,

and the friend of God; made a member of Christ the head, the sister, and

the fellow-heir; made nonetheless the temple of the Holy Spirit, founded by

faith, elevated by hope, and dedicated to God by the sanctity of the mind

and the body. All of this has been brought about by the most sincere love

of Christ which is poured forth into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, Who is

given to us [Rom., 5, 5], without which Spirit we cannot know the secrets

of God. For just as no one can know the things of a man except the spirit

of a man that is in him, so the things also that are of God no man knoweth

but the spirit of God [I Cor., 2, 11] In charity then let us be rooted and

founded, that we may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the

length of eternity, the breadth of liberality, the height of majesty and

the depth of the wisdom which judges us [Eph., 3, 17 18].