Revelations of Divine Love · 79 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack

Chapter LIIc

Which one blessed love hath now, in us, double working: for in the lower part are pains and passions, mercies and forgiveness, and such other that are profitable; but in the higher part are none of these, but all one high love and marvellous joy: in which joy all pains are highly restored.

And in this [time] our Lord showed not only our Excusing [from blame, in His beholding of our higher part], but the worshipful nobility that He shall bring us to [by the working of grace in our lower part], turning all our blame [that is therein, from our falling] into endless worship [when we be oned to the high Self above].

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Themes

◆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 describes God's active role in 'turning all our blame... into endless worship' and bringing humans to nobility, indicating a divine ordering of human affairs toward a good end.

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◆Mystical Unionsoteriology

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

The passage centrally describes the soul being 'oned to the high Self above' and experiencing a state where all pains are restored in 'all one high love.'

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◆Theosis Deificationsoteriology

The doctrine — central to Eastern Orthodox and Maximian theology — that the human person is progressively transformed into a partaker of the divine nature by grace, not merely justified or united in passing ecstasy.

The text explicitly details the transformation of human blame into 'endless worship' and the elevation to 'worshipful nobility' through grace, reflecting the doctrine of becoming partakers of the divine nature.

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