The Journey of the Mind into God
The complete prologue and seven chapters of Itinerarium mentis in Deum. The journal’s introductory essay and reference footnotes are excluded. The customary English title is used on the cover; the historical translation was published as The Soul’s Progress in God.
Translated by Thomas Davidson (1840–1900), published in 1887 as The Soul’s Progress in God.
Thomas Davidson’s translation · The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, volume XXI, 1887, pp. 288–324
Recognition errors and broken words have been corrected against the printed pages. In Chapter 5, the printed phrase “it does fail from itself” is corrected to “it does not fail from itself”, in agreement with the Latin “nec deficit a se ipso”. The source record documents this correction.
Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 · On the degrees of ascension to God, and the beholding of Him through His footsteps in the universe
- Chapter 2 · On the beholding of God in His footsteps in this sensible world
- Chapter 3 · On the beholding of God through His image impressed upon the natural powers
- Chapter 4 · On the beholding of God in His image, as reformed by gifts of grace
- Chapter 5 · On the beholding of the divine unity, through its primary name, which is Being
- Chapter 6 · On the beholding of the Most Blessed Trinity in its name which is Good
- Chapter 7 · On mental and mystic ecstasy, wherein rest is given to the intellect, the affection passing wholly over, through ecstasy, into God