Revelations of Divine Love · 81 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack

Chapter LIIIb

And in this endless Love man's Soul is kept whole, as the matter of the Revelations signifieth and sheweth: in which endless Love we be led and kept of God and never shall be lost.

For He willeth we be aware that our Soul is a life, which life of His Goodness and His Grace shall last in Heaven without end, Him loving, Him thanking, Him praising.

And right the same that we shall be without end, the same we were treasured in God and hid, known and loved from without beginning.

Wherefore He would have us understand that the noblest thing that ever He made is mankind: and the fullest Substance and the highest Virtue is the blessed Soul of Christ.

And furthermore He would have us understand that His dear worthy Soul [of Manhood] was preciously knit to Him in the making [by Him of Manhood's Substantial Nature] which knot is so subtle and so mighty that (it) —[man's soul]—is oned into God: in which oneing it is made endlessly holy.

Furthermore He would have us know that all the souls that shall be saved in Heaven without end, are knit and oned in this oneing and made holy in this holiness.

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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 passage asserts that God actively 'willeth we be aware' and keeps the soul 'whole' and 'never shall be lost,' indicating a guiding divine order.

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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 into God' and 'knit' to the divine nature, emphasizing a profound merging of identities.

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◆Return To Sourcesoteriology

The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.

The passage describes the soul as having been 'treasured in God and hid' from the beginning, implying a return to this original state of divine intimacy.

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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 states that the soul is 'made endlessly holy' through its union with God, reflecting the doctrine of becoming partaker of the divine nature.

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◆Unity Of Beingtheology

The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.

The concept of the soul being 'oned into God' and all saved souls being 'knit and oned in this oneing' suggests a fundamental ontological unity between the divine and the human.

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