glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the sublimity of unitive love As Carol and Beth ate lunch I read this to them from the devotional book "Carthusian Spirituality". This quote describes perfectly what it means to be a Christian--- "4. We shall show, therefore, how the rational spirit, faithfully instructed by wisdom, finds herself sweetly disposed toward all things through this wisdom which is mystical theology, by divine light radiating from on high. First, with regard to supercelestial things. In the blessed Trinity, the Son goes forth from the Father, and the Holy Spirit, who is true love, proceeds from both and binds the Father and the Son. So too unitive wisdom proceeds from the fount of supernal goodness and descends to the human spirit living here below, joining her by uniting her with the Uncreated Spirit. Just as the Father and Son, even though distinct, are nevertheless called one because they are bound by Love, so through this wisdom (which alone permits the human spirit to inhere nobly in the supreme Spirit), though the human spirit is nothing, she deserves' to enjoy being called one with that supreme Spirit. As the Apostle Paul says, He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). This ordering is clear not only because of the order of the Persons acquired through the wisdom of unitive love, but also because of the divine activities. To God most blessed two acts are coeternal and consubstantial, namely, knowing himself and loving himself. When the human spirit burns in God and knows ardently with unfailing knowledge, as if basking and burning in the midday heat of glowing love, she loves him with inexpressible ardor. Through this ardor she knows him more intimately than through a sense-perceptible creature, and she is conformed to him as far as possible and transformed into him by deifying love. A human spirit disposed like this is an utterly precise imitator of the eternal action." pp.107,108 Hugh Of Balam UNITIVE WAY Beth got up and went to her babysitting job. I suppose I will close to be transformed by deifying love "basking and burning in the midday heat of glowing love". music: Hard-Fi "Stars Of CCTV" 3:36 p.m. - 2006-05-28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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