Download or read book The Mystical Explanation of the Canticle of Canticles written by Saint Francis de Sales and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE ARE TWO sorts of unions of the soul with God in this world: the first by grace, which is made in Baptism, or by means of Penance; the second by devotion, and this is made by means of spiritual exercises. The one makes us innocent and the other spiritual. Solomon, considering himself to have given sufficient instruction on the first sort of union in his other books, only teaches the second in the Canticles, in which he supposes the spouse, that is, the devout soul, to be already married to her Divine Beloved, and represents their holy and chaste married loves, practiced by mental prayer, which is simply the consideration of God and Divine things. Aeterna Press