True Eros

It is true that "eros tends to rise 'in ecstasy' towards the Divine, to lead us beyond ourselves; yet for this very reason it calls for a path of ascent, renunciation, purification and healing. Concretely, what does this path of ascent and purification entail? How might love be experinced so that it can fully realize its human and divine promise? here we can find a first, important indication in the Song of Songs, an Old Testament book well know to the mystics"