ARGUMENT
ALL the doctrine whereof I intend to treat in this Ascent
of Mount Carmel is included in the following stanzas, and in them is also described
the manner of ascending to the summit of the Mount, which is the high estate of
perfection which we here call union of the soul with God. And because I must continually
base upon them that which I shall say, I have desired to set them down here together,
to the end that all the substance of that which is to be written may be seen and
comprehended together; although it will be fitting to set down each stanza separately
before expounding it, and likewise the lines of each stanza, according as the matter
and the exposition require. The poem, then, runs as follows:6565[Lit.: ‘It says, then, thus.’]
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