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.Describes how, as the fruit ofthese rigorous constraints, the soul finds itself with the vehement passion of Divinelove.IN this line the soul describes the fire of love which, as we have said, like thematerial fire acting upon the wood, begins to take hold upon the soul in this night ofpainful contemplation.This enkindling now described, although in a certain way itresembles that which we described above as coming to pass in the sensual part ofthe soul, is in some ways as different from that other as is the soul from the body, orthe spiritual part from the sensual.For this present kind is an enkindling ofspiritual love in the soul, which, in the midst of these dark confines, feels itself to bekeenly and sharply wounded in strong Divine love, and to have a certain realizationand foretaste of God, although it understands nothing definitely, for, as we say, theunderstanding is in darkness.2.The spirit feels itself here to be deeply and passionately in love, for thisspiritual enkindling produces the passion of love.And, inasmuch as this love isinfused, it is passive rather than active, and thus it begets in the soul a strongpassion of love.This love has in it something of union with God, and thus to somedegree partakes of its properties, which are actions of God rather than of the soul,these being subdued within it passively.What the soul does here is to give itsconsent; the warmth and strength and temper and passion of love or enkindling,as the soul here calls it belong172 only to the love of God, which enters increasinglyinto union with it.This love finds in the soul more occasion and preparation to uniteitself with it and to wound it, according as all the soul's desires are the morerecollected,173 and are the more withdrawn from and disabled for the enjoyment ofaught either in Heaven or in earth.3.This takes place to a great extent, as has already been said, in this darkpurgation, for God has so weaned all the inclinations and caused them to be sorecollected174 that they cannot find pleasure in anything they may wish.All this isdone by God to the end that, when He withdraws them and recollects them inHimself, the soul may have more strength and fitness to receive this strong union oflove of God, which He is now beginning to give it through this purgative way,wherein the soul must love with great strength and with all its desires and powersboth of spirit and of sense; which could not be if they were dispersed in the170[The word translated 'over' is rendered 'gone' just above.]171[Lit., 'in loves'; and so throughout the exposition of this line.]172[Lit., 'cling,' 'adhere.']173[Lit., 'shut up.']174[Here, and below, the original has recogidos, the word normally translated 'recollected'] 66enjoyment of aught else.For this reason David said to God, to the end that he mightreceive the strength of the love of this union with God: 'I will keep my strength forThee;'175 that is, I will keep the entire capacity and all the desires and energies ofmy faculties, nor will I employ their operation or pleasure in aught else thanThyself.4.In this way it can be realized in some measure how great and how strongmay be this enkindling of love in the spirit, wherein God keeps in recollection all theenergies, faculties and desires of the soul, both of spirit and of sense, so that all thisharmony may employ its energies and virtues in this love, and may thus attain to atrue fulfilment of the first commandment, which sets aside nothing pertaining toman nor excludes from this love anything that is his, but says: 'Thou shalt love thyGod with all thy heart and with all thy mind, with all thy soul and with all thystrength.'1765 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Describes how, as the fruit ofthese rigorous constraints, the soul finds itself with the vehement passion of Divinelove.IN this line the soul describes the fire of love which, as we have said, like thematerial fire acting upon the wood, begins to take hold upon the soul in this night ofpainful contemplation.This enkindling now described, although in a certain way itresembles that which we described above as coming to pass in the sensual part ofthe soul, is in some ways as different from that other as is the soul from the body, orthe spiritual part from the sensual.For this present kind is an enkindling ofspiritual love in the soul, which, in the midst of these dark confines, feels itself to bekeenly and sharply wounded in strong Divine love, and to have a certain realizationand foretaste of God, although it understands nothing definitely, for, as we say, theunderstanding is in darkness.2.The spirit feels itself here to be deeply and passionately in love, for thisspiritual enkindling produces the passion of love.And, inasmuch as this love isinfused, it is passive rather than active, and thus it begets in the soul a strongpassion of love.This love has in it something of union with God, and thus to somedegree partakes of its properties, which are actions of God rather than of the soul,these being subdued within it passively.What the soul does here is to give itsconsent; the warmth and strength and temper and passion of love or enkindling,as the soul here calls it belong172 only to the love of God, which enters increasinglyinto union with it.This love finds in the soul more occasion and preparation to uniteitself with it and to wound it, according as all the soul's desires are the morerecollected,173 and are the more withdrawn from and disabled for the enjoyment ofaught either in Heaven or in earth.3.This takes place to a great extent, as has already been said, in this darkpurgation, for God has so weaned all the inclinations and caused them to be sorecollected174 that they cannot find pleasure in anything they may wish.All this isdone by God to the end that, when He withdraws them and recollects them inHimself, the soul may have more strength and fitness to receive this strong union oflove of God, which He is now beginning to give it through this purgative way,wherein the soul must love with great strength and with all its desires and powersboth of spirit and of sense; which could not be if they were dispersed in the170[The word translated 'over' is rendered 'gone' just above.]171[Lit., 'in loves'; and so throughout the exposition of this line.]172[Lit., 'cling,' 'adhere.']173[Lit., 'shut up.']174[Here, and below, the original has recogidos, the word normally translated 'recollected'] 66enjoyment of aught else.For this reason David said to God, to the end that he mightreceive the strength of the love of this union with God: 'I will keep my strength forThee;'175 that is, I will keep the entire capacity and all the desires and energies ofmy faculties, nor will I employ their operation or pleasure in aught else thanThyself.4.In this way it can be realized in some measure how great and how strongmay be this enkindling of love in the spirit, wherein God keeps in recollection all theenergies, faculties and desires of the soul, both of spirit and of sense, so that all thisharmony may employ its energies and virtues in this love, and may thus attain to atrue fulfilment of the first commandment, which sets aside nothing pertaining toman nor excludes from this love anything that is his, but says: 'Thou shalt love thyGod with all thy heart and with all thy mind, with all thy soul and with all thystrength.'1765 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]