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The View from Mount Katahdin
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God will take the soul by the hand and lead her through the way of pure faith, "and causing the understanding to leave behind all considerations and reasonings He draws her forward….Thus He causes her by means of a simple and obscure knowledge of faith to aspire only to her Bridegroom upon the wings of love.” "Let her (the soul) suppose that all the whole world and the most refined conceptions of the wisest intellects can tell her nothing, and that the goodness and beauty of her Beloved infinitely surpass all their knowledge, being persuaded that all creatures are too rude to inform her and to conduct her to the true knowledge of God….She ought then to go forward with her love, leaving all her understanding behind. Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.”
Michael de Molinos (as quoted by A.W. Tozer in The Knowledge of the Holy)
There are many times when I am afraid to pray this prayer into fruition.
For good reason.
It is a very frightful thing to leave behind what we once knew.
To accept God's revelation of Himself to us without censor.
And the voices of the skeptics rain down.
What will it cost me to take this hand? It cost Molinos his life to write these words. He was condemned as a heretic in the Inquisition and died in prison.
But what is it to leave behind reason when one moves onward into Divine love?
