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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:KEEP GUARD \nON YOURSELF \nFrom “The Golden Epistle” by William of St Thierry \n◊◊◊ \nIn order that your solitude may not appall you and that you may dwell the \nmore safely in your cell three guardians have been assigned to you: God\, your \nconscience and your spiritual father. To God you owe devotion and the entire \ngift of yourself; to your conscience the respect which will make you ashamed to \nsin in its presence; to your spiritual father the obedience of charity and recourse \nin everything… \nI will add a fourth and provide you with a monitor for as long as you are \nsmall and have not learned to keep the presence of God before your mind… \nChoose for yourself a man whose life is such that it will serve as a model to \nimpress upon your heart\, one whom you will so revere that whenever you think \nof him you will rise up because of the respect you feel for him and put yourself in \norder. Think of him as if he were present and let the charity you feel for one \nanother act in you to correct all that needs to be corrected\, while your solitude \nsuffers no infringement of its secret. Let him be present to you whenever you \nwish and let him come sometimes when you would have preferred him to stay \naway. The thought of his holy severity will make it seem as if he were rebuking \nyou; the thought of his kindness and goodness will bring you consolation; the \npurity and sanctity of his life will set you a good example. For you will be driven \nto correct even all your thoughts\, as if they were open to his gaze and visited by \nhis rebuke\, when you consider that he is watching. \nSo\, as the Apostle bids: “Keep guard on yourself” with the greatest care \nand\, in order to have your eyes always on yourself\, turn your gaze away from all \nelse. The eye is a remarkable instrument of the body – if only it could see itself as \nit sees other things. Now the inner eye is enabled to do this. If then it follows the \nexample of the outward eye and neglects itself\, giving its attention to the affairs \nof others\, it will not be able to return to itself\, however much it may wish to do \nso. Give your attention to yourself; you yourself constitute abundant matter for \nsolicitude for yourself. Shut out also from your outward eyes what you have \ngrown unaccustomed to see\, from your inner eyes what you no longer love\, since \nnothing so easily reasserts its claims as love… \nBe yourself a parable of edification for yourself. You have one cell \noutwardly\, another within you. The outward cell is the house in which your soul \ndwells together with your body; the inner cell is your conscience and in that it is \nGod who should dwell with your spirit\, he who is more interior to you than all \nelse that is within you. The door of the outward enclosure is a sign of the \nguarded door within you\, so that as the bodily senses are prevented from \nwandering abroad by the outward enclosure so the inner senses are kept always \nwithin their own domain.
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