A Christian Allegory by Jan Provost
Next, the aspirants, persisting in more ardent surrender, are taken
up into simple awareness itself, and leaping beyond all sensible things,
they pass as if from sleep to wakefulness, from hearing to sight. And,
there, those things that are seen cannot be revealed because they are
beyond all hearing and beyond all instruction by voice. For there,
incomprehensibly heard, as the end of all speech, is Love, blessed
forever, the end of all understanding, because Love is truth, and the
end of all sense, because Love is life, and the end, finally, of all
being, because Love is being itself, and the perfection of every
creature.
Such things are shown in stages to one who submits to Love by
unshakeable trust at the heart. For if the trust is great, it unites the
aspirant with Love, so that the aspirant transcends all that is not in
union with Love Itself. Without Love, trust is not living but dead, and
not trust at all. None of the wise of this world can grasp true
happiness if they do not know Love. None can see anyone happy except
with you, Love. For everyone of happy spirit subsists in your Spirit, as
the vivified in the vivifier. And thus in you the finite is united to
the infinite and to that which cannot be united, and the
incomprehensible is seized by an eternal fruition, which is a most
joyous and inexhaustible happiness.
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