Thursday, 2 November 2023

     Sometimes the soul sees itself in worship and meditation all the time; while the mind sees the divine light in which all is clad and which pervades everything unimpededly; and in it it observes all the limits of Creation and beyond the limits and above every heaven, and the oceans and the depths of everything in them; and in it it ascends and penetrates from one light to another more excellent light, that it to say, it penetrates into the light and is concealed, until everything is taken from its sight, including the spirits and their worlds, and the sight of its own self. This is at the time of prayer and visitation. In this light the soul sees every soul. This is the contemplation, and through this it sees the angels in their place and in their nature and in their spirituality, just as the eyes of the body see the corporeal natures in their nature through the medium of the created light. (D13)