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In this consideration is the perfection of the mind's illumination,

when, as if on the sixth day, it sees man made in the image of God. If then

the image is an express likeness when our mind contemplates in Christ the

Son of God, Who is the natural image of the invisible God, our humanity now

wonderfully exalted, now ineffably united, by seeing at once in one Being

the first and the last, the highest and the lowest, the circumference and

the center, the alpha and the omega, the caused and the cause, the creator

and the creature, the book written within and without, it [the mind]

arrives at a perfect being in order that it may arrive with God at the

perfection of His illuminations on the sixth level, as if on the sixth day;

nor does anything more remain save the day of rest, on which, by the

elevation of the mind, its insight rests from all work which He had done.