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Sixfold Vision of Truth

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Sixfold Vision of Truth

Spirituality is about life in the Holy Spirit. The greatest saints have always had the greatest joy. They see things as they really are, and what they see above all is that which is above all: the love of God.

Jesus is the truth. Our attitude toward the truth determines the outcome of our lives. Lived knowledge of the truth, of Christ, is more than the modern secular realism of the last two centuries founded on the perception of objects and their representation determined by scientific observation. As St. Bonaventure puts it, there is a sixfold vision, or six ways of grasping truth : natural reason, the vision of the understanding imprinted through nature, the vision of the understanding lifted up in faith, the vision of the understanding taught by Scripture, the vision of the understanding suspended in contemplation, the vision enlightened by prophecy, and the vision absorbed through unitive love in God.

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