sense ... imagination ... lower and higher reason ... lower meaning it refers to this world down here in time ... jesus suffered in the first three even as he rejoiced in the fourth ... suffered in the third because he loved the jews and the romans ... the greater the love the greater the suffering and his love was perfect ... in the first sense above ... in sense ... may we not say he suffered less than some ... but who would say that in the second sense ... the imagination ... for wasn't he the supreme artist with the perfect message and its best expression ... a storyteller and a philosopher he used imagination to teach wisdom ... no philosophy however is complete without the end of its story ... wisdom doesn't stop in time it goes higher where the mystery is solved and goes on forever ... from suffering our own and his comes humility ... from which gratitude grows ... whose fruit is joy ... whose world is peace ... whose spirit is love ... in the world of highest reason there is no sorrow therefore no fear ... but who are we to tell something like that ... cynics laugh ... but see it wasn't we that said it 2/4
cf thomas, compendium, 232
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