Bonaventure's account of the soul's six-stage journey to God, written during a retreat to La Verna where Francis of Assisi received the stigmata.
Maps a threefold way (purgative, illuminative, unitive) through six stages of contemplation, integrating Augustinian psychology, Dionysian mysticism, and Franciscan devotion into a systematic ascent.
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