That man is little guided by reason, who does not employ all his powers to render to this great GOD the worship that is His due. Furthermore, to worship GOD in truth is to confess that we live our lives entirely contrary to His will, and contrary to our knowledge that, were we but willing, He would make us conformable to Him. Of Union of the Soul with GOD 1. The first degree is general, the second is virtual union, whilst the third is actual union. That degree of union which is general is when the Soul is united to GOD solely by grace.
Actual union is the perfect union.
In the other degrees the Soul is passive, almost as it were slumbering. Yet we can be deceived as to actual union by our feelings. It fills us with a joy that is calm indeed, and with a love that is very humble and very reverent. It lifts the Soul aloft to heights, where the sense of the love of GOD constrains it to adore Him, and to embrace Him with a tenderness that cannot be expressed, and which experience alone can teach us to understand. There is no one but must avow that GOD is beyond our understanding.