One recalls, for instance, the explanations in his sermons of how we draw near to God, not “in a spatial sense, moving as it were from point to point, but by becoming like unto him”, or of how we can reach God with the sharp inner insight of the spirit and become happy in that contemplation, or his remarks on the incorporeal and transcendent nature of God, on the relations between the three divine persons, on aspects of Christology, on the Holy Ghost as the soul of the Church, or on the illumination