![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I sought a way to gain the strength which I needed to enjoy you. Nor will you change me into yourself like bodily food, but you will be changed into me.” I learned that I was in a region unlike yours and far distant from you, and I thought I heard your voice from on high: “I am the food of grown men grow then, and you will feed on me. ![]() Meanwhile you overcame the weakness of my vision, sending forth most strongly the beams of your light, and I trembled at once with love and dread. When I first came to know you, you drew me to yourself so that I might see that there were things for me to see, but that I myself was not yet ready to see them. O Eternal truth, true love and beloved eternity. He who has come to know the truth knows this light. This light was above me because it had made me I was below it because I was created by it. No, it was something entirely distinct, something altogether different from all these things and it did not rest above my mind as oil on the surface of water, nor was it above me as heaven is above the earth. It was not the ordinary light perceptible to all flesh, nor was it merely something of greater magnitude but still essentially akin, shining more clearly and diffusing itself everywhere by its intensity. On entering into myself I saw, as it were with the eye of the soul, what was beyond the eye of the soul, beyond my spirit: your immutable light. I was able to do so because you were my helper. Urged to reflect upon myself, I entered under your guidance into the inmost depth of my soul. O eternal truth, true love, and beloved eternity Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | RSS | More From the Confessions of St. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:40 - 8.5MB) | Embed ![]()
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