Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise! Thus low may a con- templative come towards active life; and no lower, but if it be full seldom and in great need. To the cloud of unknowing above you and between you and your God, add the cloud of forgetting beneath you, between you and creation. MEMORY is such a power in itself, that properly to speak and in manner, it worketh not itself. They read and hear well said that they should leave outward working with their wits, and work inwards: and because that they know not which is inward working, therefore they work wrong. For first thou wottest well that when thou wert living in the common degree of Christian men's living in company of thy worldly friends, it seemeth to me that the everlasting love of His Godhead, through the which He made thee and wrought thee when thou wert nought, and sithen bought thee with the price of His precious blood when thou wert lost in Adam, might not suffer thee to be so far from Him in form and degree of living. Chapter 57 – How these young presumptuous disciples misunderstand this other word "up"; and of the deceits that follow thereon.
And thereto, look the loath to think on aught but Himself. But I say, although it be good and holy, yet in this work it letteth more than it profiteth. And right as it is impossible, to man's understanding, for a man to come to the higher part of active life, but if he cease for a time of the lower part; so it is that a man shall not come to the higher part of contemplative life, but if he cease for a time of the lower part. For some men are so cumbered in nice curious customs in bodily bearing, that when they shall ought hear, they writhe their heads on one side quaintly, and up with the chin: they gape with their mouths as they should hear with their mouth and not with their ears. Were we truly spiritual, we should not need them; for our communion with Reality would then be the direct and ineffable intercourse of like with like. For why, that perfect stirring of love that beginneth here is even in number with that that shall last without end in the bliss of heaven, for all it is but one. Say what men say will, and let the proof witness. A skilled theologian, quoting St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, and using with ease the language of scholasticism, he is able, on the other hand, to express the deepest speculations of mystical philosophy without resorting to academic terminology: as for instance where he describes the spiritual heaven as a "state" rather than a "place": "For heaven ghostly is as nigh down as up, and up as down: behind as before, before as behind, on one side as other. And yet, nevertheless, it behoveth a man or a woman that hath long time been used in these meditations, nevertheless to leave them, and put them and hold them far down under the cloud of forgetting, if ever he shall pierce the cloud of unknowing betwixt him and his God. Should we therefore in our ghostly work ever stare upwards with our bodily eyes, to look after Him if we may see Him sit bodily in heaven, or else stand, as Saint Stephen did?
For thee thinkest that thou hast very evidence that heaven is upwards; for Christ ascended the air bodily upwards, and sent the Holy Ghost as He promised coming from above bodily, seen of all His disciples; and this is our belief. In all these shalt thou keep discretion, that they be neither too much nor too little. For if it be truly conceived, it is but a sudden stirring, and as it were unadvised, speedily springing unto God as a sparkle from the coal. So do your part and I can promise you God will do his. Truly I trow, unless they have grace to leave off such piping hypocrisy, that betwixt that privy pride in their hearts within and such meek words without, the silly soul may full soon sink into sorrow. Ensample of this have we in a man or a woman afraid in the manner beforesaid. But their special prayers rise evermore suddenly unto God, without any means or any premeditation in special coming before, or going therewith. Otherwise he may very easily err in his judgments. But that that Moses might not come to see but seldom, and that not without great long travail, Aaron had in his power because of his office, for to see it in the Temple within the Veil as oft as him liked for to enter. LOOK that no man think it presumption, that he that is the wretchedest sinner of this life dare take upon him after the time be that he have lawfully amended him, and after that he have felt him stirred to that life that is called contemplative, by the assent of his counsel and his conscience for to profer a meek stirring of love to his God, privily pressing upon the cloud of unknowing betwixt him and his God. When a person experiences this nothing, the soul is blinded by an abundance of spiritual light and not by actual darkness or by an absence of physical light. A man or a woman, afraid with any sudden chance of fire or of man's death or what else that it be, suddenly in the height of his spirit, he is driven upon haste and upon need for to cry or for to pray after help.
In this is all the travail, for this is man's travail, with help of grace. This by itself is the best part of Mary without these other. And as fast in a curiosity of wit they conceive these words not ghostly as they be meant, but fleshly and bodily; and travail their fleshly hearts outrageously in their breasts. Imagin- ation and Sensuality work beastly in all bodily things, whether they be present or absent, in the body and with the bodily wits. This word shall be thy shield and thy spear, whether thou ridest on peace or on war. And it is marvellous to number the stirrings that may be in one hour wrought in a soul that is disposed to this work. For why, these folk will more weigh, and more sorrow make for an unordained gesture or unseemly or unfitting word spoken before men, than they will for a thousand vain thoughts and stinking stirrings of sin wilfully drawn upon them, or recklessly used in the sight of God and the saints and the angels in heaven. And this He doth, for He will not reverse the order or the ordinal course in the cause of His creation. I mean for the time. To such wretchedness as thou here mayest see be we fallen for sin: and therefore what wonder is it, though we be blindly and lightly deceived in understanding of ghostly words and of ghostly working, and specially those the which know not yet the powers of their souls and the manners of their working? But the more wretched and cursed, unless thou do that in thee is goodly, by grace and by counsel, to live after thy calling.
Put aside your exterior ways of knowing, such as your five senses and their objects of interest because I'm telling you that this contemplative work can't be accomplished by them. In the length it is, for might it ever feel as it feeleth, ever would it cry as it cryeth. For peradventure an thou knewest not which were perfect meekness, thou shouldest ween when thou hadst a little knowing and a feeling of this that I call imperfect meekness, that thou hadst almost gotten perfect meekness: and so shouldest thou deceive thyself, and ween that thou wert full meek when thou wert all belapped in foul stinking pride. Study thou not for no words, for so shouldest thou never come to thy purpose nor to this work, for it is never got by study, but all only by grace. What weary wretched heart, and sleeping in sloth, is that, the which is not wakened with the draught of this love and the voice of this calling! Now truly I hope that unless God shew His merciful miracle to make them soon leave off, they shall love God so long on this manner, that they shall go staring mad to the devil. Eccentricities of this kind he finds not only foolish but dangerous; they outrage nature, destroy sanity and health, and "hurt full sore the silly soul, and make it fester in fantasy feigned of fiends. " But the use thereof may be both good and evil. For I may not trow that a soul continuing in this work night and day without discretion, should err in any of these outward doings; and else, me think that he should always err. For why, in God be all good, both by cause and by being. Then shall some that now be des- pised and set at little or nought as common sinners, and peradventure some that now be horrible sinners, sit full seemly with saints in His sight: when some of those that seem now full holy and be worshipped of men as angels, and some of those yet peradventure, that never yet sinned deadly, shall sit full sorry amongst hell caves. On the same manner shalt thou do with this little word "God. " "Thou art full busy, " He said, "and troubled about many things. "
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