f or else by some of
His angels--that is to say, either His angels of this life, the
which are true teachers, or else His angels of His bliss, the which
are true stirrers and inspirers of good. And as it is said of the
other three evil spirits, that a soul, for long use and customable
consenting unto them, may be made so fleshly, so worldly, and so
malicious, that it taketh upon it the office of them all; right so
it is againward[314] that a soul, for long use and custom in
goodness, may be made so ghostly by cleanness of living and devotion
of spirit against the spirit of the flesh, and so heavenly against
the spirit of the world, and so godly by peace and by charity, and
by restfulness of heart, against the spirit of malice, of wrath, and
of wickedness, that it hath them now of office all such good
thoughts to think when him list, without forgetting, in as great
perfection as the frailty of this life will suffer. And thus it may
be seen how that each thought that smiteth on our hearts, whether
that it be good or evil, it is not evermore the speech of our own
spirit, but the consent to the thought, what so ever it be, that is
ever of our own spirit. Jesu grant us His grace, to consent to the
good and againstand the evil. Amen.

FINIS. DEO GRATIAS

INDEX OF NAMES & SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES

Ancren Riwle, The, xx, 28 n

Aquinas, St. Thomas, xiii, 81, 84 n, 86 n

Asher, symbolism of, 6, 16-19

Augustine, St., xii, 25

Benjamin, symbolism of, xvi, xvii, 6, 29-33

Bernard, St., xii, 81

Bilhah, symbolism of, 4-6, 13-16

Bonaventura, St., xii

Catherine of Siena, St., xi, xvii-xix, xxv-xxvii, 35-47, 52 n, 107 n

Caxton, xviii, xix

Chaucer, 17 n, 52 n, 56 n, 95 n, 120 n

Chauncy, Maurice, xxiv

Dan, symbolism of, 6, 13, 14, 18

Dante, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, 38 n, 88 n, 91 n

Dinah, symbolism of, 6, 25

Dionysius, xxiii, xxiv

Divine Cloud of Unknowing, The, Author of, xii, xvii, xxiv, xxv,
xxvii, 3, 32, 33, 77-132

Eckhart, Meister, xi

Exmew, William, xxiv

Flete, William, xvii, xviii, 52 n

Gad, symbolism of, 6, 16-19

Genesis, 8-11, 14-17, 20, 24, 32

Hawkwood, John, xvii

Hilton (Hylton), Walter, xi, xii, xxii-xxv, 61-73, 104 n, 124 n

Hugel, F. von, 84 n, 86 n

Hugh of St. Victor, xii

Imitatione Christi, De, xxiii n, 65 n

Isaiah, 124

Issachar, symbolism of, 6, 20-24

Jacob, symbolism of, 3-7, 10, 27, 29

Jacopone da Todi, xi

James, Dane, xviii

James, Epistle of