Ruhun Temaşaya Hazırlanışı Üzerine (Benjamin Minor)

To every rational spirit, a certain twofold power has been given by that Father of lights, from whom is every best gift and every perfect donation: namely, reason and affection. Reason by which we discern; affection by which we love. Reason toward truth; affection toward virtue. These are the genuine wives, from whom a noble offspring arises, the heirs of the celestial kingdom. From reason arise right counsels; from affection, holy desires. From the former, spiritual senses; from the latter, ordered affections. From the former, finally, all virtue; from the latter, indeed, all truth. It must be known, however, that affection then truly begins to be Leah when it strives to compose itself according to the norm of justice. And reason is shown to be Rachel without a doubt when it is illuminated by the light of true wisdom. But who is ignorant of how laborious that is, how joyful this is? For what can be sweeter, what more joyful, than to raise the eye of the mind to the contemplation of supreme wisdom?