Revelations of Divine Love · 84 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack
Chapter LVb
And these two parts were in Christ, the higher and the lower: which is but one Soul; the higher part was one in peace with God, in full joy and bliss; the lower part, which is sense-nature, suffered for the salvation of mankind.
And these two parts [in Christ] were seen and felt in the Eighth Shewing, in which my body was fulfilled with feeling and mind of Christ's Passion and His death, and furthermore with this was a subtile feeling and privy inward sight of the High Part which I was shewed in the same time when I could not, [even] for the friendly proffer [made to me], look up into Heaven: and that was because of that mighty beholding [that I had] of the Inward Life.
Which Inward Life is that High Substance, that precious Soul, [of Christ], which is endlessly rejoicing in the Godhead.
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◆Emotional Epistemologysoteriology
The doctrine that emotions constitute a valid and necessary mode of knowing reality, complementing or surpassing intellectual cognition.
The text emphasizes 'feeling' and 'mind of Christ's Passion' as the primary mode of receiving revelation, stating that the body was 'fulfilled with feeling' to perceive the divine reality.
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Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.
The passage describes a 'privy inward sight' and 'mighty beholding' of the Inward Life, indicating salvation or understanding comes through direct, experiential vision rather than external instruction.
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