The Soul’s Journey into God
The “Speculation of the Poor Man in the Desert”, written on La Verna in 1259: six steps of the mind’s ascent to God through his footprints in the world, his image in the soul and his divine names, and the seventh, the mystical passing over in the crucified Christ. The Latin is the Quaracchi text as on The Latin Library; the English is Philotheus Boehner’s 1956 translation from the facing-page edition of the Franciscan Institute, without his introduction and commentary.
Contents
Source: Prologue and seven chapters; the transcription’s paragraph numbers are kept as in the source where a paragraph is numbered, and the sub-items of chapter I, 14 stay separate paragraphs. · Only the English of the facing-page text is imported (prologue, seven chapters); Boehner’s introduction, notes and commentary and his Latin are left out. The OCR keeps stray footnote-marker characters after some words.