 Another bold assertion is Eckhart's distinction between God and Godhead ("Gottheit" in German, meaning Godhood or Godhead, state of being God).These notions had been present in Pseudo-Dionysius's writings and John the Scot's "De divisione naturae", but Eckhart, with characteristic vigor and audacity, reshaped the germinal metaphors into profound images of polarity between the Unmanifest and Manifest Absolute.John Orme Mills notes that Eckhart did not "leave us a guide to the spiritual life like St Bonaventure’s Itinerarium – the Journey of the Soul," but that his ideas on this have to be condensed from his "couple of very short books on suffering and detachment" and sermons.