Even
if at times I can still experience outwardly some little sadness and
joy, nonetheless there is in my soul a chamber in which no joy, sadness,
or enjoyment from any virtue, or delight over anything that can be
named, enters.
This is where the All Good, which is not any particular
good, resides, and it is so much the All Good that there is no other
good. Although I blaspheme by speaking about it -- and I speak about it
so badly because I cannot find words to express it -- I nonetheless
affirm that in this manifestation of God I discover the complete truth.
In it, I understand and possess the complete truth that is in heaven and
in hell, in the entire world, in every place, in all things, in every
enjoyment in heaven and in every creature. And I see all this is so
truly and certainly that no one could convince me otherwise.
Even if the
whole world were to tell me otherwise, I would laugh it to scorn.
Furthermore, I saw the One who is and how he is the being of all
creatures. I also saw how he made me capable of understanding those
realities I have just spoken about better than when I saw them in that
darkness which used to delight me so.
Moreover, in that state I see
myself as alone with God, totally cleansed, totally sanctified, totally
true, totally upright, totally certain, totally celestial in him. And
when I am in that state, I do not remember anything else…
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