for as St. John saith, ‘The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.’* Two contrary qualities, as the philosophers say, cannot co-exist in the same subject. Darkness, which is the love of creatures, and light, which is God, are contrary to one another, for ‘What fellowship hath light with darkness?’† The light of the Divine union cannot, therefore, dwell in the soul if these affections are not cast away. The affection and attachment which the soul feels for the creature