Week 4 Notes and Slides
Week 4 Notes Letters 13 and 14 are about the patient’s new conversion experience. Letter 13 – Real, Positive Pleasures · A second conversion o Probably deeper than the first o Grace – the asphyxiating cloud… present to the patient under certain modes not yet fully classified. · 2 pleasures o Read a book for the pure enjoyment o Take a walk to the Old Mill · Experience real positive pleasures o A touchstone of reality § Elbow to the ribs bringing him back to his senses o The opposite is Romanticized views of the World submerged in self-pity § Childe Harld or Wether – see notes o To disconnect a man from God, the first aim is to detach him from himself. · God wants us to lose ourselves “to abandon the clamour of self-well.“ o ...