Ars Notoria, Chapter 14 summary
Chapter 14 of 66 · 1 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 14, the speaker asks God to brighten the conscience, strengthen understanding and memory, and renew the heart and senses. The prayer connects these requests with repentance, asking for forgiveness and divine help through holy angels while acknowledging the speaker’s unworthiness.
What happens
- The speaker asks the Lord to brighten the conscience and strengthen understanding through the divine spirit.
- The speaker requests attentive hearing, lasting memory, and renewed strength in the heart and senses.
- The speaker asks God to guide the tongue and grant the prayer’s requests.
- The prayer appeals to God’s patience toward sinners and asks for guilt and wrongdoing to be removed.
- The speaker invokes holy angels and addresses God as one being in three parts.
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The key line
“Improve my memory with your gifts.”The speaker
The line presents memory as a capacity strengthened by divine help. It captures a repeated request within the prayer.
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What does the speaker ask God to guide?
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