"All contemplatives, armed with the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, have annihilated in themselves those impulses which attract them towards or are produced by creatures, and by doing so they have acquired virtue; having cut short all imaginations and representations of sensible objects, they have found truth, which enables them to reason justly about everything; then, rising above all created things, they are enlightened by the Creator of all things, the Unity (of the Trinity) infinite and supreme. From this enlightenment proceeds a true and mysterious theology."