Art of Persistence

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." -Albert Ellis

Sunday, April 01, 2007

The Mystery of the Trinity

"The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a mysterious exchange at the heart of the Deity. In God himself the One does not exclude the Other, it includes it. The Unity of God is complete, so rich, that it is not solitude enclosed in itself, but rather the fullness of communion. And thereby the source of all communion.

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In God the Holy Spirit is almost anonymous (since God is entirely Spirit, entirely Holy). He is almost confused with the unmoving movement of love in the divine nature, with the divine 'common nature', as St Basil says. He is revealed as rich, 'variegated' with all the divine names, and so almost indistinguishable from the divine energies that he imparts to us, in our inmost depths. It is as if he were effacing himself.

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The Spirit is the hidden God, the inward God, deeper than our greatest depth. He gives life to all things and we breathe him without being aware of it. He is the breath of God in the breathing of the world, of humanity.

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But this hidden God is not lost in immanence; he is entirely movement towards Christ, and , through Christ, towards the Father, in the same way as the energies that he imparts flow from the Father through the Son."

Olivier Clément, The Origins of Christian Mysticism

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