When, therefore, the soul reflects that God is the principal agent in this matter, and the guide of its blind self, who will lead it by the hand and lead it where it could not of itself go (namely to the supernatural which neither its understanding, nor its will, nor its memory, could know as they are), then its chief care will be to see that its set no obstacle in the way of the guide, who is the Holy Spirit, upon the road by which God is leading it, and which is ordained according to the law of God and faith… –St John of the Cross “Living Flame of Love’