Living vs beatified: occult inspiration vs vision in the divine essence; distance no bar if God opens hearts
Living learn hidden things by occult inspiration; the beatified see them in God’s essence as in a mirror—more perfectly than in themselves.
No bodily bulk or distance bars Saints from prayers, acts, and opened thoughts.
Unwilling minds stay closed except to God alone, who searches hearts.
Latin
XLII. Caeterum, ex illius sensu, longe aliter viventibus absentia revelantur, atque Sanctis qui aeterna gloria fruuntur. Illis enim nota fiunt occulta inspiratione, his autem contemplatione divinae essentiae, in qua veluti in speculo res omnes & ab illis videntur, & sunt longe perfectius, quam in semetipsis existant. Addit non esse inconveniens, si fateamur Sanctos in coelis videre opera nostra in terris. Cum enim nulla corporis mole praepediantur, non impediri etiam locorum distantia, nec corporibus interjectis, quo minus preces nostras audiant, actiones intueantur, adeoque in cordibus nostris & cogitationibus illa videant, quae volumus ipsis esse manifesta. Quemadmodum enim sine externa voce, aut sensibili signo, Angeli tum sibi mutuo, tum animabus loquuntur, & vicissim ab illis audiuntur, & intelliguntur: ita homines sola voluntate sua spiritibus tam bonis, quam malis, interna desideria & cogitationes aperire posse, & ab illis intelligi, non obstante corpore quo vestiuntur, vel quavis loci intercapedine, tametsi magna. Nolentium vero cogitationem, & mentem nemini patere praeter unum Deum, qui solus scrutatur corda & renes, & cui voluerit Deus revelare. Cap. 12. de Veneratione Sanctorum in explicatione propositionis secundae.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.