ABSTRACT
Interpretations of the ensuing passages have tended to focus on solipsism as an epistemological or metaphysical thesis. It is characteristic of resolute readers on the other hand, to see the Tractatus as aiming not at determining the source and extent of the limits of language at all, but rather at leading people to see the search for such limits as itself illusory. If good or evil willing affects the world it can only affect the boundaries of the world, not the facts, what cannot be portrayed by language but can only be shewn in language. The imitation of Christ is found in that self-denial which not only renounces the desire for all the amenities of the world, but renounces the desire to be a god, to grasp, to possess 'equality with God'. The venerable and blessed father Fray John of the Cross was once asked how a man went into ecstasy.
