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Modern Psychology and the Function of Symbolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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In his Summa Theologica (II-II, 81, 7) St Thomas Aquinas lays clown a principle which is fundamental for both the theory and the practice of divine worship: ‘We show reverence and honour to God not for his own sake—for he is himself full of glory, and to that glory nothing can be added by any creature: but for our own sake, in as much as by the very fact that we worship and honour God, our minds are put into subjection to him. And in this consists their own fulfilment, for everything attains its fulfilment by being subject to that which is above it: thus the body attains its fulfilment by being made alive by the soul, and the atmosphere by being lit up by the sun …’

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Copyright © 1949 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Reprinted by kind permission of the Editor from Orate Fratres, Vol. 22, No, 6 (18th April, 1948).

2 Published by Chatto and Windus in 1934.