Prologus
From Image to Journey
Having shown wisdom's growth through the image of a tree, the author now promises to unfold its stages more fully.
At the end of the previous book we showed, through the image of a certain tree, how wisdom arises and grows in us. Here we will set out more fully, step by step, the stages of its growth, which we there touched on only briefly and in summary.
Read the original Latin
In fine praecedentis libri per similitudinem cujusdam arboris demonstravimus qualiter sapientia oriatur, et crescat in nobis. Hic ipsius incrementi gradus, quos ibi breviter et summatim perstrinximus, latius per singula prosequendo explanabimus.
De Arca Noe Morali et Mystica (On the Moral and Mystical Ark of Noah) companion
Keep the ark under construction
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