ABSTRACT
Man has two kinds of relationship with the Divine Order, one direct and the other indirect. The first encompasses prayer and, more esoterically, intellectual discernment and unitive concentration; the second goes to God through the door of the human Logos, and it comprises the virtues of which the Logos is the personification and model. In question here are not only the elementary virtues, which may be natural to man or which he can
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draw from himself, but also and above all the supernatural virtues, which on the one hand are graces and on the other require that man transcend himself and even cease to "be" in order to "become." No path exists without reference to a human manifestation of the Logos, just as with all the more reason none exists without a direct relationship with God.
