And I perceive that
the present discerning of these things is different from remembering
that I oftentimes discerned them, when I often thought upon them. I
both remember then to have often understood these things; and what I
now discern and understand, I lay up in my memory, that hereafter I
may remember that I understand it now. So then I remember also to have
remembered; as if hereafter I shall call to remembrance, that I have
now been able to remember these things, by the force of memory shall I
call it to remembrance.
The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in
the same manner that my mind itself contains them, when it feels them;
but far otherwise, according to a power of its own. For without
rejoicing I remember myself to have joyed; and without sorrow do I
recollect my past sorrow. And that I once feared, I review without
fear; and without desire call to mind a past desire. Sometimes, on the
contrary, with joy do I remember my fore-past sorrow, and with sorrow,
joy. Which is not wonderful, as to the body; for mind is one thing,
body another.
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