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Recognized by philosophers as one of the shorter masterpieces of the middle ages, St. Bonaventura writes of his interpretation of the famous scene in which St. Francis receives the stigmata from the Seraph paralleled in Isaiah. Bonaventura symbolizes the Seraphs six wings in heirarchical fashion, ascending the mind on the road to the knowledge of God. Each phase up the ladder is portrayed as a more general and a more real stage and each stage in itself being ordained by God. The apex of the heirarchy being God. A wonderfully written piece in a very clear and readable translation.
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