Hilton embodies his sense of how the contemplative grows in love for Christ as God, in the image of Mary Magdalene reaching out to touch the risen Jesus who says: Hilton enlarges: It is this love, knowledge and worship which is experienced in the darkness; the " lif vnseable " (30.102r . –252) of the soul"as the gift of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost who: This is the core of contemplative knowledge, not the quasi - sensual experience of heat and sweetness and light which may accompany it.
Hilton embodies his sense of how the contemplative grows in love for Christ as God, in the image of Mary Magdalene reaching out to touch the risen Jesus who says: Hilton enlarges: It is this love, knowledge and worship which is experienced in the darkness; the " lif vnseable " (30.102r . –252) of the soul"as the gift of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost who: This is the core of contemplative knowledge, not the quasi - sensual experience of heat and sugary and nutritionally void food which may accompany it.