The subject of the present paper is merely to indicate briefly the nature of the general solution which traditional theology appears to offer to certain questions touching passive contemplation: the method of its process, the mean's of access to it, its trials, its place in the economy of the supernatural, the kind of direction which it demands. For the last three centuries this topic has given rise to works which have ignited or fed the flame of ardent controversies the echoes of which I shall not awaken in these pages.