Excerpt from The Directorium Asceticum, Vol. 4 of 4: Or, Guide to the Spiritual Life
1. After three days of travelling, we are now nearing our journey"s end. The consummation of Christian life is perfect Charity. The removal of obstacles, spoken of in the Second Treatise - the perfection of the Moral Virtues, which was the subject-matter of the Third Treatise, - the means of uprooting obstacles, and implanting virtues within the soul, discoursed of at full length in the First Treatise, - are but so many paths leading to the most desirable goal of divine love; and having, by the blessing of God, completed these three Treatises, which may be compared to so many stages of our journey, we are now about to treat of perfect Charity, the consummation, essence, and very substance of Christian perfection, since by it alone we are fully united with God, our last end, and highest happiness; by it alone does our spirit attain its rest in Him as in its sphere, and repose in Him as in its centre.
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