I n this post quote François de Salignac Fenelon, in an excerpt from his opera " Explanation of the top of the saints on the inner life ", Sao Paulo, 2002, edited as always by the great Marco Vannini . Associate for his ideas and his support of Madame Guyon quietist movement, in this passage speaks of the soul "disinterested," or soul that is totally dedicated to God and his will, losing their identity, their desire, their autonomy. This soul does not want love (the sum of all virtue) and comes to not even want love and happiness as well, but God alone. ________________________
ARTICLE XXXIII
TRUE
There is person in the state union of all the virtues love, something that never excludes the separate exercise of all virtues. You charity, as St. Thomas following St. Augustine, which is the form or principle of all virtues. What distinguishes them is the specific or particular object which is applied to love. The love that you refrain from impure pleasures is chastity, and this same love when tolerate evils, is called patience.
This love, without leaving the its simplicity, it becomes time to time all the different virtues, but because he does not want any virtue, inasmuch as strength, size, beauty, regularity, perfection. "The soul does not love the most disinterested virtue," as St. Francis de Sales said, "either because they are beautiful and pure, because they are not worthy of being loved, or why make it more beautiful and more perfect than those who practice or because they are meritorious, or prepare for the eternal reward, but simply because they are God's will selfless soul, "as this great saint of Mother Chantal said," does not wash its sins to be pure and not adorned with the virtues to be beautiful, but to please his spouse , and if ugliness had been as pleasant for him, she would love her as much as beauty. "
They practice all the virtues thus distinguished without thinking that they are virtues, at any time is not expected to do the will of God , and love makes you jealous that you no longer want to be virtuous if themselves and, together, that no one has ever, except when you are no longer interested to be. In this sense we can say that the soul does not want passive and disinterested love even more because it is the perfection and his happiness, but only because it is what God wants from us. From this it follows that St. Francis de Sales says that " back to ourselves instead of love love love the beloved." Elsewhere this saint says that "the desire of salvation is good, but" that " is even more perfect not want anything."
you saying that you should not even wish for the love of God as our good . Finally, to give this truth all the precision required, the saint says that "we must make sure not to look to God than the love of her beauty, and that there is no pleasure in the beauty of his love." This will seem a subtle distinction to those who have not yet been instructed dall'unzione, but is supported by a tradition of all the saints from the beginning of Christianity, and you can not criticize without criticizing the saints who have put in Perfection mild cases this jealousy of love. To speak in this way is to repeat what the saints mystics have said after St. Clement and after the ascetics on the suspension of the virtues, and that much needed to be explained with infinite precaution.
FALSE
In the passive state, the separate exercise of the virtues is no longer appropriate, since the pure love that contains all of the eminently its quiet pantry absolutely souls from their exercise. Speaking in this way is to contradict the Gospel, the scandal has put the stone in the way of children of the Church (cf. Rom 14:13), is to give them the name of living while dead.
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