"Therefore, my dearly beloved Peter, with keen directedness turn your mind's eye to this secret, and with this analysis enter into my writings and into whatever other writings you read, and occupy yourself especially with my books and sermons."
— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Author
Work Title
Date
1464
Metaphor
"Therefore, my dearly beloved Peter, with keen directedness turn your mind's eye to this secret, and with this analysis enter into my writings and into whatever other writings you read, and occupy yourself especially with my books and sermons."
Metaphor in Context
CARDINAL
[...]
Accordingly, by such analyses [as the foregoing] you see that all [these speculative matters] are easy, and you see that all differences pass over into a concordance. Therefore, my dearly beloved Peter, with keen directedness turn your mind's eye to this secret, and with this analysis enter into my writings and into whatever other writings you read, and occupy yourself especially with my books and sermons-- particularly with The Gift of Light, which, if rightly understood in accordance with the preceding remarks, contains the same thing as this present book. Likewise, keep in mind my books On the Icon of God (or On the Vision of God) and On Seeking God, so that you may better familiarize yourself with these theological matters. And with great affection conjoin to these books the memorandum concerning the loftiest level of contemplative reflection--the memorandum which I now very briefly submit. I hope that you will be an acceptable contemplator of God and will pray unceasingly for me amid your sacred offices.
(16, p. 1430-1)
[...]
Accordingly, by such analyses [as the foregoing] you see that all [these speculative matters] are easy, and you see that all differences pass over into a concordance. Therefore, my dearly beloved Peter, with keen directedness turn your mind's eye to this secret, and with this analysis enter into my writings and into whatever other writings you read, and occupy yourself especially with my books and sermons-- particularly with The Gift of Light, which, if rightly understood in accordance with the preceding remarks, contains the same thing as this present book. Likewise, keep in mind my books On the Icon of God (or On the Vision of God) and On Seeking God, so that you may better familiarize yourself with these theological matters. And with great affection conjoin to these books the memorandum concerning the loftiest level of contemplative reflection--the memorandum which I now very briefly submit. I hope that you will be an acceptable contemplator of God and will pray unceasingly for me amid your sacred offices.
(16, p. 1430-1)
Categories
Provenance
Browsing http://www.cla.umn.edu/jhopkins/DeApice12-2000.pdf
Citation
Nicholas of Cusa. Selected Spiritual Writings. Trans. H. Lawrence Bond. New York: Paulist Press, 1997.
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
04/24/2005
