ABSTRACT
So also, no one can be united with God unless he be first enlightened. Thus there are three stages: first, the purification; secondly, the enlightening; thirdly, the union.
Theologia Germanica, 14 (14th century) 7 Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and
goodness. Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670)
8 Love of God is not always the same as love of good. Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
9 For years I used almost as proverbs… ‘Holiness rather than peace’.
