Revelations of Divine Love · 59 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack

Chapter XLIIIb

And then shall we all come into our Lord, our Self clearly knowing, and God fully having; and we shall endlessly be all had in God: Him verily seeing and fully feeling, Him spiritually hearing, and Him delectably in-breathing, and [of] Him sweetly drinking.

And then shall we see God face to face, homely and fully.

The creature that is made shall see and endlessly behold God which is the Maker.

For thus may no man see God and live after, that is to say, in this deadly life.

But when He of His special grace will shew Himself here, He strengtheneth the creature above its self, and He measureth the Shewing, after His own will, as it is profitable for the time.

ANENT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE FOREGOING FOURTEEN REVELATIONS

§ Ask Guru about this passage →

Themes

◆Emotional Epistemologysoteriology

The doctrine that emotions constitute a valid and necessary mode of knowing reality, complementing or surpassing intellectual cognition.

The passage emphasizes 'feeling,' 'delectably in-breathing,' and 'sweetly drinking' as primary modes of knowing God, placing affective experience on par with or above intellectual sight.

All passages →

◆Gnosis Direct Knowledgesoteriology

Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.

The vision of seeing God 'face to face' and 'fully feeling' Him represents a direct, unmediated experiential knowledge of the divine nature.

All passages →

◆Living Godtheology

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

God is depicted as an active, personal presence who 'strengtheneth,' 'measureth,' and can be 'felt' and 'heard,' rather than an abstract principle.

All passages →

◆Mystical Unionsoteriology

The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.

The passage centrally describes the soul's complete merging with God, where the self is 'had in God' and the distinction between seer and seen dissolves in a state of endless beholding.

All passages →

◆Self Knowledgesoteriology

The recognition of one's own true divine nature as the primary path to liberation; 'know thyself' as soteriology.

The text explicitly links the ultimate union with God to 'our Self clearly knowing,' suggesting that true self-knowledge is integral to the divine encounter.

All passages →

Related passages · 2 parallels

◆hermeticism|Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount|Section 1b

“For It doth will to be, and It is both Itself and most of all by reason of Itself. Indeed, all other things beside are just bacause of It; for the distinctive feature of the Good is "that it should be known". Such is the Good, O Tat. Tat…”

Both passages describe a transformative vision of the divine that transcends ordinary human experience. They share the concept of a direct, intimate encounter with the divine that surpasses mortal limitations and leads to a state of divine union or enlightenment.

◆neoplatonism|Select Works of Plotinus|Select Works, Section 713 (part 2)

“Any that have seen know what I have in mind: the soul takes another life as it approaches God; thus restored it feels that the dispenser of true life is There to see, that now we have nothing to look for but, far otherwise, that we must put…”

Both passages describe a mystical union with the divine, where the soul or creature transcends its earthly state to experience God directly. The insights are conceptually similar, focusing on the transformation of the self through divine grace and the attainment of a higher, spiritual existence.