St Bonaventure wrote The Soul's Journey into God while meditating on the vision of a crucified seraph that had appeared thirty-three years earlier to St Francis, his spiritual mentor. Bonaventure comes to see that the angel's six wings represent six steps on the road to mystical union with God.

By combining narration with extracts from the text itself, this episode will be your guide to this journey.

The quotations throughout are from the translation of George Boas.

This episode is greatly indebted to the work of Douglas Dales, who will be appearing on this podcast to discuss Bonaventure and his work.

Artificial intelligence has been used to build the audio.

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