shewed in the [Lord's] outward manner of Regard. In which shewing I saw two parts: the one is the rueful falling of man, the other is the worshipful Satisfaction[1] that our Lord hath made for man.
The other manner of Regard was shewed inward: and that was more highly and all [fully] one.[2] For the life and the virtue that we have in the lower part is of the higher, and it cometh down to us [from out] of the Natural love of the [high] Self, by [the working of] grace. Atwix [the life of] the one and [the life of] the other there is right nought: for it is all one love. Which one blessed love hath now, in us, double working: for in the lower part are pains and passions, mercies and forgiveness, and such other that are profitable; but in the higher part are none of these, but all one high love and marvellous joy: in[3] which joy all pains are highly restored. And in this [time] our Lord showed not only our Excusing[4] [from blame, in His beholding of our higher part], but the worshipful nobility that He shall bring us to [by the working of grace in our lower part], turning all our blame [that is therein, from our falling] into endless worship [when we be oned to the high Self above].[5]
- ↑ "Asseth,"
- ↑ "and al on"—perhaps for all is one.
- ↑ "in" = in, into, or unto.
- ↑ i.e. Exculpating—as in Romans ii. 15.
- ↑ Man,—seeing he is not a simple nature—in one aspect of his being, which is the better, and that I may speak more openly what I ought to speak, his very self, is immortal; but on the other side, which is weak and fallen, and which alone is known to those who have no faith except in sensible things, he is obnoxious to mortality and mutability."— From the Didascolon of Hugo of St Victor, as quoted in F. D. Maurice's Mediæval Philosophy. p. 147.
