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