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mystikens väg och mål

2 o 1

loves, loves, and knows nought eise. . . . He loves rather to be loved.
They are Bridegroom and Bride. What other bond or constraining
force do you seek for between spouses than to be loved and to
love: . . . Love is sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself, and for
its own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself its own recompense.
Love seeks neither cause nor fruit beyond itself. Its fruit is its use.
I love because I love; I love that I may love. Love, then, is a great
reality. It is the only one of all the movements, feelings, and
af-fections of the soul in which the creature is able to respond to its
Creator . . . This is the love of the Bride, because all that she is
is only love. . . . Rightly then does she renounce all other
effec-tions, and devote her whole seif to Him alone Who is Love . . .
Happy the soul to which is granted to experience the embracement
(complexus) of such sweetness, which is nought eise than a love holy
and chaste; a love sweet and delightful; a love as serene as it is
sincere; a love mutual, intimate, powerful, which not in one flesh, but
in one spirit joins together two, and makes them no möre two, but
one . . ,»’

Lika litet som hos andra mystici är det fråga om ett
utslocknande i grov mening, endast en innerlig personlig förening.

»The union of God and man is brought about not by
confu-sion of naturas, but by agreement of wills. . . . But they are with
strict truth called ’one spirit’, if they adhere to one another by the
glue of love2.»

Ecstasis är en död, men ej från livet utan från dess hinder
och snaror:

»For when the soul is transported (excedente anima) through
not from life, yet from consciousness of life, the temptations of life
cannot be felt. It is a good death which does not take away life,
but changes it into something better, by which . . . the soul is
elevated. . . . Such transport (excessus) alone, or in the highest degree,
is named contemplation. . . . You have not yet gone a long way
unless you are able by purity of mind to fly Over (transvolare) the
phantasmata of corporeal images that rush in from all sides. . . .
Suppose therefore that the Bride has withdrawn into this solitude,
and there through the delightfulness of the place has sweetly gone
to sleep in the embrace of the Bridegroom, that is to say, has been
transported in spirit.»3

1 Butler a. a. s. 163 ff.

2 Butler s. 167.

3 Butler s. 169 f.

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