Saturday, 20 June 2009

• Divine illumination and the Church, w/ pictures

  "Every Divine illumination... unifies the things illuminated."
  
  
  
  "Every procession of illuminating light proceeding from the Father, whilst visiting us as a gift of goodness, restores us again as a unifying power to a higher spiritual condition, and turns us to the oneness of our conducting Father, and to a deifying simplicity."
  
  
  
  "For all things are from Him,
  and to Him,
  as said the Sacred Word."
  
  
  
  "Invoking then Jesus,
  the Paternal Light,
  the Real, the True,
  'which lighteth every man that cometh into the world,'
  'we have access to the Father,'
  Source of Light..."
  
  
  
  
  
  "For it is not possible that the Divine Ray should otherwise illuminate us,
  except so far as it is enveloped,
  for the purpose of sacred instruction,
  in variegated veils,
  and arranged naturally
  and appropriately,
  for such as we are,
  by paternal
  forethought."
  

  Dionysius the Areopagite (Saint Denys, the Syrian Monk), Celestial Hierarchy
  
  

  
  
  
  
  We are united and held together by a Divine power.  The fact that the Church has held together at all shows that our loving God has and is helping us, providing Rays of Light.
  Part of unity is, passively, saying Amen and letting God help.
  
  
  
  Three planes, three Persons.
  Coincidence?
  Godcidence.
  
  

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