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Chapter
LXII.—Peter’s Experience of Imagination.
When Simon thus spoke, Peter answered:668
| 668 [This story
(chaps. 62–65) is peculiar to the Recognitions. In
Homily XVII. 14–19 there is an argument against the
trustworthiness of supernatural visions, which is supposed to be
anti-Pauline in its aim.—R.] | “Now listen patiently
concerning both these matters, that is, concerning the example of
stretching out the senses, and concerning the immensity of light.
I know that I myself, O Simon, have sometimes in thought extended my
sense, as you say, into regions and islands situated afar off, and have
seen them with my mind not less than if it had been with my eyes.
When I was at Capernaum, occupied in the taking of fishes, and sat upon
a rock, holding in my hand a hook attached to a line, and fitted for
deceiving the fishes, I was so absorbed that I did not feel a
fish adhering to it while my mind eagerly ran through my beloved
Jerusalem, to which I had frequently gone up, waking, for the sake of
offerings and prayers. But I was accustomed also to admire this
Cæsarea, hearing of it from others, and to long to see it; and I
seemed to myself to see it, although I had never been in it; and I
thought of it what was suitable to be thought of a great city, its
gates, walls, baths, streets, lanes, markets, and the like, in
accordance with what I had seen in other cities; and to such an extent
was I delighted with the intentness of such inspection, that, as you
said, I neither saw one who was present and standing by me, nor knew
where myself was sitting.” Then said Simon:
“Now you say well.”
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