Aperi igitur oculos, aures spirituales admove, labia tua solve et cor tuum appone,8 ut in omnibus creaturis Deum tuum videas, audias, laudes, diligas et colas, magnifices et honores, ne forte totus contra te orbis terrarum consurgat.
Open therefore your eyes, alert your spiritual ears, open your lips and apply [appone] your heart,8 to see, hear, praise, love [diligas] and worship [colas], glorify and honour your God in all creatures, lest perhaps the whole circle of the earth rise together against you.
Bonaventure, Journey of the Spirit into God, 1.15
Significant autem huiusmodi creaturae huius mundi sensibilis invisibilia Dei,8 partim quia Deus est omnis creaturae origo, exemplar et finis, et omnis effectus est signum causae, et exemplatum exemplaris, et via finis, ad quem ducit: partim ex propria repraesentatione; . . . Omnis enim creatura ex natura est illius aeternae sapientiae quaedam effigies et similitudo.
Moreover, these manner of creatures of this sensible world signify the invisible things of God,8 partly because God is the Origin, Exemplar and End, of every creature, and (because) every effect is a sign of a cause, and an example [exemplatum] of an exemplar, and a way for the end, towards which it leads . . . For every creature by its nature [ex natura] is a certain likeness and similitude of that eternal Wisdom.
Bonaventure, Journey of the Spirit into God, 2.12, www.franciscan-archive.org/bonaventura/opera/bon05295.html
