Why was Paul ignorant of his own state, and how do various modes of cognizing God differ?

The chapter revolves around two problems that intrigued medieval masters the most concerning Paul's rapture: how to define his mode of cognition during rapture, while he himself confessed not to have known whether his soul was in or out of his body, and how does his mode of knowing God then differ from others. It examines the attempts of our group of theologians to classify the ecstatic mode of vision, while being aware of the tension between the rational theologian-observer and the experiencing subject. It discusses Augustine’s position as to Paul's self-ignorance, his threefold division of visions into corporeal, imaginative, and intellectual, then twelfth-century further developments, in which Paul's vision was framed between earthly faith and the heavenly, beatific vision. It then shows that in the early-thirteenth century, more cognitions joined the taxonomic parade: the visions of prophets, contemplators, Christ, Moses, scriptural exegetes, angels, and even God's knowledge of himself. This intense preoccupation with taxonomy, together with the perception of the self as both experiencing and observing, it is argued, served this community of theologians to map the field in which they operate and negotiate their position in it.