PAGE 82 6 INTRODUCTION, noni, @. W.F. Lecures on the History of Pilosopmy. xen ited from the Germen by B. $ Haldane and FH. Sim- ‘Vol. IL., 61-67. ‘Hoon, W. T. Lives of the Arehbtchops of Contervury. London, 65-276. ond Metaphysical Padosopiy. Lodo, Ly 507-588 Prunpeant, 0. The Pabseply of Religion, ‘Trae by ‘A.Meceian, Loaden, 1686, Vol. IL, 271-275. Vesnewra, FS History of Plulosophy. ‘Teasslated by G. 8. Morris, New York, 2892, Vol 1, 37-386, TW abervog trot as tidesot Geen nt Lala dnsralosron Astin pat taeaded iat Lak Suu Sf. Aaseln, Base 4s draws SM, : urdings (rans. . Detre (Casall DC oper CourT, 1438). 718-993-2504 This material nay be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.8. Code) 9/05/1998 88:09 Dempsey THE 1030 ANSELM’S PROSLOGIUM OR DISCOURSE ON THY EXISTENCE OF GOD PREFACE. {Be Ais belet work the author ace at provi Benes. To this work he had gf Wedewtnding, Ha Cally ned an example of meditation the pe regarding the divine Being. Although often and carnestly directed my thought to this end, aod xt some times that which I scughtPAGE 3 a clude thie thought altogether, lest, by busying my mind to no purpose, it should keep me from other thoughts, in which I might be oucceseful5 then more 14. shunned it, it Suu , be welcome to some ‘and of some others, I ing treatise, in the person of it hia mind to the contemplatic In my judgment, neither thia work I mentioned above, desorved tobe thought they by which whose hands 718-990-2504 leditation on the Grounds of Raith Seeking Understanding. But both had been copied by many under these many urged me, ard es 09/05/1998 08:09 PROSLOGIOM, 49 ings, And that this might be done more fitly, I named the firet, Monologiam, A Soliloquy} but the second, Presiegium, that is, A Discourse, CHAPTER 3, Rehoriation of the mind to the contemplation of God —Tt-carts ‘side cares, and exsindes all thoogtte save tat ol God, Speek now, my wl God, saying, 1 seek thy face being absent? But wnat eve thee present? Troly thow dwellest im unap+PAGE 84 : 0 ANSEL, Proachable light. But whore is unapproachable. or how shall I come who id me to Ghat Wak and info that Tmay sce thee a it? Agnin, by what marks, under what form, shali T seek thee? J have never seen thee, © Lord, my God ; I do not ‘now thy form. What, O most high Lord, shall this ‘maa do, en exile far from thee? What shall thy ser- ‘vant do, anzious ia his love of ‘thee, aad cast out afar from thy face? le pants to see thee, and thy face is too far from him. He to come fo thee, and thy dwelling-place i le. He is eager to find thee, and knows not thy place, He desires to seele thee, and does not know: ‘thy face, Lord, thou art my God, and thou art my Lord, and never have 1 sees thee. It is thou that hast made me, and hast made Pre anew, and hast bestowed apoa me all the blessings T it do I know thee, Finally, Twas ‘Sreaied to see thee, end not yet have Idone that for which I was made, : © wretched lot of man, when he h which he was made! © hard and ‘ter what bar Suu ost that for fatel Al st, and what has he found? What ‘what remains? He has lost the blessed. ness for which he was made, sad has fount misery pla foc which he was not made. Tha has departed Sie, ak whick nothing fe happy, and that reves a: ‘toot! is only miserable. Man once did b R read of angels, for which he hungers now he eateth 0! which he knew not then, ingot all markind, for the uni. of the sons of Era th hunger, He unde, we d in happiness, and miserably for We suffer want in uahappiness, 718-993-2504 69/05/1998 98:09 PRos:oGIUM, I and feel a miserable longing, and alas! we remain SAMhy ald he sot keep for us, when he could so easily, that whose lack we should feel so heavily? ‘Why did ho shut us away from the light, and cover 2 With what purpose did he ct death upon us? Wretches chat ‘whence have we been driven out; whither tev divon ca Whence hued? Wher con signed to ruin? From « native country Sato exile ion of God into our present blindness, from the Joy of iusotay fate re bitterness ard exchange of how great a Heavy loss, heavy grief good, for how great heavy all our fate! But alact wretched that 1 am, 006 of the eons of myself, scught calm in privacy, ibulation and” griel, ia my Tamost ._ Twisted to smaile in the ay maid, and Iam compelled to frown by the sorrow ef my hheatt. Gladzets was hoped for, and 101 a source of ent sighs} a or too, © Lard, bow long? How ton Lord, dost thou forget us; how long dost thou tut ‘hy face from ue? When wilt thou look upon us, and ‘bear us? When wilt thou ealighten our eyes, and show us thy face? When wilt thou restore thy ‘veal thyself to us, Restore thysell (ous,PAGE 05 2 ANSELM, PROSLOGIUM, 53 be well with us—thyeelf, without whom it is 0 ili and strivings toward thee, ithout thee. Thou dest i I beseech thee, © Lor that Imay not lose hope ia sighs, but may breathe acew in hope, Lord, my he ‘compare my understanding with thet; but I long te stand ia some degree thy truth, which my heart For I do not seck 2 in hunger I began to ceek thee I beseech thee that I may not ceave to hunger for In hunger Ebave come Uae; Let ie ne not 6 unfed. have come in poverty to thie Rich, in misery to the” Compassionate; let me not return empty and de- spised. And if, before Leat, I sigh, grant, even after sighs, that which I may est, Lord, I am bowed down “CHAPTER It, ‘Teoly thera fea Gof, although the foo! Bath aald [n bis heart, ‘There ie no Gad. ing to faith, give meso far ae thout lineweat arena ee shou ata ws bales} Aup s0, Lord, do thou, who dost give understan t}. SIU ‘and, like a heavy load, they me ftom them ; unburdea me, ies may not close over me, up to thy light, even from afar, ‘Teach me to seek thee, and “thank thee that thou hast created me ia this, ‘image, in order that 1 may be. mindful of thee, ms conceive of thee, and love thee; but been eo coosyned ad wate away by-viceg ood ob 718-993-2504 eGeanisjey” When n painter fi ‘afterwards perform, he has it standing, but he does not yet understand it to be, bee 09/05/1998 08:0969/05/1998 98:09 PROSLOGION. 35, ‘Be conceived not to oxist; and this being thou art, O Lerd, eur God. So traly, therefore, dost thou existQ Lord, my, God, that thou canst not be conceived net to and rightly. For, if shind could congtive’of ers, For, whatever else ex- jard fence in & loss degree ‘God cannot be conceived cot to exlet—Gof fs tet, than which aL sates grater can be concsipe Tit whigh can at san le ¥F eh ‘est then iste eo! oi Fe isl than which nothing Greater can be conceived to exist, that it cannot even. conceived. For, in one sense, %PAGE 7 Axsnan. fire to be water, the nature of the the nature of th ossible according 1 facts thernsel “ news stands What {God is can conceive that God doesnot exist 1, For, Go then whick greater cannot te conceived. And he who thoroughly understands this, assuredly under ‘stand that thiy being so trily exists, Hat aot even in SIU 718-993-2504 ‘Want art thou, then, Lord God, ing greater can be conceived? Ei nothing? For, whatever is not ti which can be conceived of, “But 09/05/1998 08:09 PRosoctuM. a ‘ceived of thee, What good, therefore, does the su: preme Good lack, through which every good is? ‘Therefore, thou aft CHAPTER VI. ‘How God ia sensible (sensi) althongh senufile, olin poteat, if. shou best not all poweraj ate and passloaless® PRE if only corporeal things are a body and are jody, how art thou though thou art not a body, but 0 is superior to body? But, ‘only cognition, or for the who feels obtains knowled| Proper functions of hit colors; through taste, ‘way cognises is not ing) © Lord, although thov art not a body, ‘trulysensible in the highest degree in re- spect of this, thet thou dost cognise all thin ‘@ corporeal sense,