Revelations of Divine Love · 42 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack
Chapter XXXII-a
"There be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it seemeth to us that it were impossible that ever it should come to good end." "That Great Deed ordained ...
by which our Lord God shall make all things well" One time our good Lord said: All thing shall be well ; and another time he said: Thou shalt see thyself that all manner [of] thing shall be well ; and in these two [sayings] the soul took sundry understandings.
One was that He willeth we know that not only He taketh heed to noble things and to great, but also to little and to small, to low and to simple, to one and to other.
And so meaneth He in that He saith: All manner of things shall be well .
For He willeth we know that the least thing shall not be forgotten.
Another understanding is this, that there be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it seemeth to us that it were impossible that ever it should come to good end.
And upon this we look, sorrowing and mourning therefor, so that we cannot resign us unto the blissful beholding of God as we should do.
And the cause of this is that the use of our reason is now so blind, so low, and so simple, that we cannot know that high marvellous Wisdom, the Might and the Goodness of the blissful Trinity.
And thus signifieth He when He saith: Thou shalt see thyself if all manner of things shall be well .
As if He said: Take now heed faithfully and trustingly, and at the last end thou shalt verily see it in fulness of joy .
And thus in these same five words aforesaid: I may make all things well , etc., I understand a mighty comfort of all the works of our Lord God that are yet to come.
There is a Deed the which the blessed Trinity shall do in the last Day, as to my sight, and when the Deed shall be, and how it shall be done, is unknown of all creatures that are beneath Christ, and shall be till when it is done.
["The Goodness and the Love of our Lord God will that we wit [know] that it shall be; And the Might and the Wisdom of him by the same Love will hill [conceal] it, and hide it from us what it shall be, and how it shall be done."] And the cause why He willeth that we know [this Deed shall be], is for that He would have us the more eased in our soul and [the more] set at peace in love —leaving the beholding of all troublous things that might keep us back from true enjoying of Him.
This is that Great Deed ordained of our Lord God from without beginning, treasured and hid in His blessed breast, only known to Himself: by which He shall make all things well.
For like as the blissful Trinity made all things of nought, right so the same blessed Trinity shall make well all that is not well.
§ Ask Guru about this passage →Themes
Divine Hiddennesstheology
The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.
The passage explicitly states that the 'Might and the Wisdom' of God will conceal the specific nature and timing of the Great Deed from all creatures until it is done.
All passages →Divine Providencetheology
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
The text emphasizes God's active ordering of all events, asserting that even the smallest things are not forgotten and that a divine plan exists to bring good out of apparent evil.
All passages →Frashokereticosmology
The final restoration/renovation of the cosmos.
The passage centrally describes a 'Great Deed' ordained by the Trinity to make all things well and restore what is not well in the last day, mirroring the Zoroastrian concept of final cosmic renovation.
All passages →Living Godtheology
The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
God is portrayed as a dynamic, personal agent who speaks, wills, takes heed of small things, and actively intervenes to restore the cosmos.
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Shared concept: Divine Hiddenness — The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father. (derived)
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Shared concept: Divine Providence — Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity. (derived)
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“Section 16 16.
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Shared concept: Frashokereti — The final restoration/renovation of the cosmos. (derived)
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58.
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