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Now that these six considerations have been studied as the six steps of

the true throne of Solomon by which one ascends to peace, where the truly

peaceful man reposes in peace of mind as if in the inner Jerusalem; as

if, again, on the six wings of the Cherub by which the mind of the truly

contemplative man grows strong to rise again, filled with the illumination

of supreme wisdom; as if, once again, during the first six days in which

the mind has to be exercised that it may finally arrive at the Sabbath of

rest after it has beheld God outside itself through His traces and in His

traces, within itself by His image and in His image, above itself by the

likeness of the divine light shining down upon us and in that light, in so

far as is possible in this life and the exercise of our mind -  when,

finally, on the sixth level we have come to the point of beholding in the

first and highest principle and the Mediator of God and men, Jesus Christ,

those things of which the likeness cannot in any wise be found in creatures

and which exceed all the insight of the human intellect, there remains that

by looking upon these things it [the mind] rise on high and pass beyond not

only this sensible world but itself also. In this passage Christ is the way

and the door, Christ is the stairway and the vehicle, like the propitiatory

over the ark of God and the mystery which has been hidden from eternity

[Eph, 3, 9].