44. Concerning secrecy, and the rites of Blood. During this practice it is most wise that the Philosophus utter no word concerning his working, as if it were a Forbidden Love that consumeth him
III. Rehearsal. It may assist if the traditional history of the particular Deity be rehearsed before him; perhaps this is best done in dramatic form. This method is the main one recommended in the “Exercitios Espirituales” of St Ignatius,
First, if the love lack any quality of love, so long is it not ideal love. For it is written of the Perfected One: “There is no member of my body which is not the member of some god.” Therefore let not the Philosophus despise any form of love, but harmonise all. As it is written: Liber LXI. 32. “So therefore Perfection abideth not in the Pinnacles or in the Foundation, but in the harmony of One with all.”