We have established the Trinitarian shape of Bonaventure’s soteriology, and some of the key features that mark the self’s pilgrimage to Beauty. Our next two chapters follow the interaction of these themes first through the stages of the soul’s becoming, and next through the ascent of its corresponding body. Bonaventure’s presentation of material makes the distinction necessary. The typically premodern priority he gave to the soul’s capacity to know and love led him to pen several works dedicated explicitly to its ascent, with the Collations on the Six Days reflecting his most mature and complex soteriological vision. Embarking on a close reading of this text in the chapter at hand will allow us to appreciate the organic shape and dynamism of the soul’s journey as Bonaventure himself conceives it. Understanding how the body participates in this journey, for Bonaventure, will take more constructive work in Chapter 3.