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December 4, 2008
upon this road, to go down is to go up
For communications which are indeed of God have this property, that they humble the soul and at the same time exalt it. For, upon this road, to go down is to go up, and to go up, to go down, for he that humbles himself is exalted and he that exalts himself is humbled. And besides the fact that the virtue of humility is greatness, for the exercise of the soul therein, God is wont to make it ascend by this ladder so that it may descend, and to make it descend so that it may ascend, that the words of the Wise Man may thus be fulfilled, namely: ‘Before the soul is exalted, it is humbled; and before it is humbled, it is exalted.’
St John of the Cross - Dark Night of the Soul
Posted by amin at December 4, 2008 11:57 AM