Good day to all my brothers and sisters in Christ and also to visitors who are yet to meet with us.
In the medieval West, an anonymous author who translated the works of Dionysius into English for the first time also wrote a beautiful manuscript intriguingly titled The Cloud of Unknowing. It teaches that God is stilling the mind and opening the heart. He cannot be defined with the intellect, But only embraced with love. The author wrote:
God is always quite unable to be comprehended by the faculty of intelligence,
but he is totally and perfectly intelligible by the power of love. Every single
creature, moreover, will know him differently. Dwell on this if you have the
grace to do so, because to experience this for oneself is everlasting joy, and
the contrary is everlasting pain.
Even in the depths of prayer and loving mediation, however, there will still remain one barrier between the seeker and God, which the author describes as `a naked apprehension of your essential being`. To discover the all-embracing onesness of God, the mystic must relinquish his
sense of self. The release from the self is not within his power, but may only happen by God`s grace. This could not be otherwise. If thew mystic could transcend his self by his own volition, it would be like `pulling himself up by his own bootstraps`. The one thing he definitely cannot do is transcend himself....... to be continued, maybe!
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