is considered excellent in this world and desire to possess Him and to be possessed by Him, to enjoy Him alone, and to cling inseparably to Him. 3. From this it may be understood that he who pursues and loves temporal goods and worldly joys which will perish, has not learned how numerous are the divine delights. For who can seek anything else whose possession God deigns to be? Or who for His love does not contemn all that is considered great? Let him, then, who wishes to possess God renounce the