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In this passage, if it is perfect, all intellectual operations should be

abandoned, and the whole height of our affection should be transferred and

transformed into God. This, however, is mystical and most secret, which no

man knoweth but he that hath received it [Apoc., 2, 17], nor does he

receive it unless he desire it; nor does he desire it unless the fire of

the Holy Spirit, Whom Christ sent to earth, has inflamed his marrow. And

therefore the Apostle says that this mystic wisdom is revealed through the

Holy Spirit.