> [[at-sl-28|← Book III]] # "Footnotes — Book Iii: Unitive Way (Intro)" [1] PHIL, A SS. TRINITATE, op. cit., IIIa P., Tr. I, dist. I; TH. DE VALGORNERA, op. cit., Q. IV, Disp. I; SAUDREAU, The Degrees of the Spiritual Life, Vol. I; P. GARRIGOU-LAGRANGE, op. cit., t. I, Introduction. [2] Galat., II, 20. [1] Gal., II, 20. [2] John, XIV, 6. [1] Elévations sur la vie… de N. S. J. C., 52e élév., t. I, p. 429. [2] Imit., Bk. II, C. I, n. 1. [3] ST. THOMAS explains this well in Ia IIæ, q. 61, a. 5 : “There are some virtues of men who are on their way to and tending towards the Divine similitude; and these are called perfecting virtues… Thus, prudence sees nought else but the things of God; temperance knows no earthly desires; fortitude has no knowledge of passions; and justice, by imitating the Divine Mind, is united thereto by an everlasting covenant. Such are the virtues attributed to the Blessed, or, in this life, to some who are at the summit of perfection. ” [4] John, VIII, 29. [1]Ps. XXIV, 15. [2] P. DE GUIBERT, R. A. M., avril 1922, Trois définitions de théologie mystique, p. 162-172; P. GARRIGOU-LAGRANGE, Perf. et contemplation, t. I, ch. IV, a. 2, p. 272-294; GABR. DE STE MARIE MADEL., La contemplation acquise, dans la Vie spirit., sept, 1923, p. \[277\]; LEHODEY, The Ways of Mental Prayer, P. II, C. IX, P. III, C. I, IV; POULAIN, Graces of Interior Prayer, SAUDREAU, The Degrees of the Spiritual Life, Vol. II, Bk. V. [1] Summa theol., IIa IIæ, q. 180, a. 1 and 2. [2] P. G. DE STE MADELEINE, La contemplation acquise chez les Carmes, Vie spirit., Sept. 1923, (P. 277). [1] One may say of contemplation what St. Thomas says of justification (Ia IIæ, q. III, a. 2, ad 3): “God does not justify us without our co-opération; because whilst we are justified, we freely conform to God’s righteousness. ” [2] This division is generally accepted today under one name or another. In a remarkable article in the Vie spirituelle for March 1923, p. 645, J. MARITAIN, whilst declaring the aim to be the same for all, namely, union with God through perfect charity and the gifts of the Holy Ghost, recognizes that there are in fact two ways, the way of those who are under the rule of the active gifts and who have only a contemplation in the loose sense of the word, and the way of the contemplatives, in whom the gifts of understanding and wisdom predominate. We shall come back later to this teaching. --- > [[at-sl-28|← Book III]]