Experiencing union
(Quotations from Orthodox anthology)
- Abbot Vasilios of Iveron Monastery in Hymn of Entry, p. 102:
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The soul can attain to the secrecy which is in God, where the mystery
of unity beyond understanding and speech is celebrated, only when it has
gone not only beyond the categories of vice and ignorance and of falsehood
and wickedness - the vices which are opposite to virtue and knowledge and
truth and goodness - but even, if one may say this, beyond the categories of
virtue itself and of knowledge and truth and goodness as they are known to
us. In the Kingdom of the Spirit of God, which lies beyond our senses and
intellectual concepts and virtues, everything exists in a different way. It
exists truly. (citing St. Maximos the confessor)
©1999 by Deb Platt
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