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…- St. Angela of Foligno
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