The first level of St. Bonaventure’s transcendent Aesthetics: Contemplating God as the pure, primary Being

St. Bonaventure asserts that man can ascend contemplatively to God through three phases. The first one is contemplate outside us by appreciating the corporeal things as vestiges of deity: this “immanent” phase Bonaventure’s Aesthetics, framed and second stages contemplation God. consists entering into our soul, a spiritual image God: intermediate phase, in which we inside ourselves his constitutes Seraphic’s “introspective” with third fourth In man, transcending objects deity elevates himself God, contemplating him eternal First Principle: “transcendent” considering essential attributes (fifth stage) personal properties (sixth stage). current article aims highlight fifth stage Aesthetics. To achieve goal, analyze step reasoning that, prove thesis, author exposes Chapter 5 Itinerarium mentis Deum.