Visions of God
St. John of the Cross tells
the mystic that, if he wants to approach God, he must cast aside every
single scrap of knowledge he owns and divest himself of all his own ideas
and opinions:
"The
soul must journey by knowing God
through what
He
is not, rather than through what He
is; it must
journey insofar as possible,
by way of the denial and
rejection of natural and
supernatural apprehensions.
This is our task now with
the memory. We must draw it
away from its natural props
and capacities and raise it
above itself (above all
distinct knowledge and
apprehensible possession)
to supreme hope in the
Incomprehensible
God."
.....St. John of the Cross