[Redbook6:267][19890918:1353]{(Extract:
Wisdom through the Love of the Holy Spirit)}[18th September 1989]
.1353
*‘First,
this dark contemplation is called secret, because it is, as I have
said before, the mystical theology which theologians call secret
wisdom,[#] and which, according to St. Thomas,** is infused into the
soul more especially by love.*** This happens in a secret hidden way
in which the natural operations of the understanding and other
faculties have no share. And therefore, because the faculties of the
soul cannot compass it, it being the Holy Ghost*** who infuses it
into the soul, in a way it knoweth not, as the Bride saith in the
canticle,**** we call it secret.’
*John
Cross, D[ark] N[ight of the S[oul], II, XVII:1
**St.
Thom.2da
2dae
qu. 180, art. 1
***NB
[linked
by arrows; & NB also #]
****Cant.
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