Great Throughts Treasury

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Blosius, fully Abbot Louis de Blois and Franciscus Ludovicus Blosius NULL

French Flemish Monk, Benedictine Monastic Reformer and Mystical Writer

"For when, though love, the soul goes beyond all work of the intellect and all images of the mind, and is rapt above itself (a favor only God can bestow), utterly leaving itself, it flows into God: then is God its peace and fullness... It sinks down into the abyss of divine love, where, dead to itself, it lives in God."