47/54 The soul, said Boehme, stands both in heaven and in hell. Keep it perpetually busy at the window of the senses, feed it with unlovely and materialistic ideas, and those ideas will realize themselves. Give the contemplative faculty its chance, let it breathe at least for a few moments of each day the spiritual atmosphere of faith, hope and love, and the spiritual life will at least in some measure be realized by it. J.Varendonck, "The Psychology of Day-dreams."] [Footnote 86: Jacob Boehme: "The Way to Christ," Pt. IV.] [Footnote 87: Patmore: "The Rod, the Root and the Flower: Aurea Dicta," 13.] [Footnote 88: Ruysbroeck: "The Book of the XII Beguines," Cap. |