lucifica

Updated: April 13, 2025

In the former he is 'relative ad intellectum humanum, lux lucifica, sol intelligibilis: relative ad existentiam humanam, anima animans, calor fovens'. In the latter he is 'vita vivificans, principium spiritualis, id est, veræ reproductionis in vitam veram'. Now this principle, or 'vis vitæ vitam vivificans', considered in 'forma passiva, assimilationem patiens', at the same time that it excites the soul to the vital act of assimilating this is the Blood of Christ, really present through faith to, and actually partaken by, the faithful.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.