temporal things, it loves earthly things. If the soul loved just itself to the neglect of the one by whom it was made it would already be something less, it would already be showing its defects, by loving what is less; I mean, it is in itself less than God, and far, far less, and as much less as the thing made is less than its maker.11 So God must be loved, to the point that for love of him we even forget, as far as this is possible, ourselves. So what exactly is this about-turn?12 The soul has