John Tauler · 38 of 121

Secondly, of the work and knowledge of grace. · 92.

There is a great difference between natural, angelic, and devilish images. The natural images direct man to the preservation of nature, they refer all things to man’s nature, and all men have these images. Every man is by nature more directed to himself than to others; and what man loves in nature, he loves on account of himself, from the pleasure it giveth his nature, and were it not agreeable to it, he would never love it. The angelic images lead man from himself and all things to God, refer all to God, and few have such images, save a perfect, poor man. For the most of men are more considerate of themselves than of others, whether in spiritual or bodily things; for every man seeketh his own.