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Albert the Great wrote that wisdom and understanding enhance one's faith in God.

According to him, these are the tools that God uses to commune with a contemplative.

Love in the soul is both the cause and result of true understanding and judgement.

It causes not only an intellectual knowledge of God, but a spiritual and emotional knowledge as well.

Contemplation is the means whereby one can obtain this goal of understanding.

Things that once seemed static and unchanging become full of possibility and perfection.

The contemplative then knows that God is, but she does not know what God is.

Thus, contemplation forever produces a mystified, imperfect knowledge of God.

The soul is exalted beyond the rest of God's creation but it cannot see God Himself.