Chapter 7 - Part 2 - Of the various ways in which we may consider God as present

 From the Dux Spiritualis by Louis de Ponte SJ

Section 3 - How we may regard God as dwelling with in us

Page 112 - The 3rd Manner of looking upon God is within myself: since He is really and truly within me by Essence, Presence and Power, much more intimately than my Soul is in my body; if I am in a state of Grace, He is in my Soul as a King upon his throne, a spouse in her bridechamber, and as God in His holy temple, according to the saying of the Apostle: 

        "Know thee not, that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells within you?"

[1 Corinthians iii, 16]. 

Page 115 - St Augustine's Prayer [Solil., c, 31] 

Too late have I loved Thee, O Beauty ever old and ever new, too late have I loved Thee for Thou wert within and I was without; for I sought Thee in the beauty of the creatures Thou hast made; but I only deformed myself.

Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee: they held me far from Thee, because they had all their being from Thee, and I knew it not. 

Enlighten, Lord, the eyes of my Soul, that I may see Thee within myself, and may love and possess myself and Thee, who art ever with me, and may be most intimately united with Thee. Amen