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Monologium, on the Being of God51 Chapter LI. Each loves himself and the other with equal love.

St Anselm († 1109) · Monologion · 1075-1076

Chapter LI. Each loves himself and the other with equal love.

But if the supreme Spirit loves himself, no doubt the Father loves himself, the Son loves himself, and the one the other; since the Father separately is the supreme Spirit, and the Son separately is the supreme Spirit, and both at once one Spirit. And, since each equally remembers himself and the other, and conceives equally of himself and the other; and since what is loved, or loves in the Father, or in the Son, is altogether the same, necessarily each loves himself and the other with an equal love.

Sed si se amat summus Spiritus, procul dubio se amat Pater, amat se Filius, et alter alterum; quia singulus Pater est summus Spiritus, et singulus Filius, summus Spiritus; et ambo simul, unus spiritus. Et quia uterque pariter sui et alterius meminit, et se et alterum intelligit: et quoniam omnino idipsum est quod amat, vel amatur in Patre, et quod in Filio necesse est ut pari amore uterque diligat se et alterum.

Sidney Norton Deane (1878–1943), Chicago: Open Court, 1903. Digital text: English Wikisource transcription of the 1903 edition (each chapter checked against the OCR of the Internet Archive scan stanselmeproslog00anseuoft). Original text: Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich) TEI of the Patrologia Latina, via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Public domain in the US and Canada: published 1903; translator died 1943. Latin: Migne, PL 158 (1853), public domain.

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