Revelations of Divine Love · 88 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack

Chapter LVIIb

Plenteously and fully and sweetly was this shewed, and it is spoken of in the First, where it saith: We are all in Him enclosed and He is enclosed in us .

And that [enclosing of Him in us] is spoken of in the Sixteenth Shewing, where it saith: He sitteth in our soul .

For it is His good-pleasure to reign in our Understanding blissfully, and sit in our Soul restfully, and to dwell in our Soul endlessly, us all working into Him: in which working He willeth that we be His helpers, giving to Him all our attending, learning His lores, keeping His laws, desiring that all be done that He doeth; truly trusting in Him.

For soothly I saw that our Substance is in God.

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Themes

◆Bhakti

The path of loving devotion and self-surrender to a personal deity as itself sufficient means of liberation — the Gita's 'to those constantly devoted, I come forward as their deliverer,' Kabir's and the Sant poets' love-religion, the devotional stream that parallels Sufi love-mysticism. Distinct from mystical_union (the resulting state), fana_annihilation (the ego's unmaking at the path's end), ladder_of_love (eros staged toward Beauty), and prayer (the practice of address): bhakti names devotion as the soteriological road itself.

The passage outlines a path of devotion involving 'giving to Him all our attending,' 'learning His lores,' and 'truly trusting in Him' as the means to cooperate with God.

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◆Kingdom Withinanthropology

The claim that the divine realm is present inside the individual, accessible without external mediation.

The text emphasizes that God's reign and dwelling place are located 'in our Understanding' and 'in our Soul,' locating the divine realm internally.

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◆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 'reigns,' 'sits,' 'dwells,' and has a 'good-pleasure' to work with human helpers.

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◆Mystical Unionsoteriology

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

The central theme describes God reigning in understanding, sitting in the soul, and dwelling endlessly within it, signifying a profound merging of the divine and human.

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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 assertion that 'our Substance is in God' and the reciprocal enclosure of God and humanity points to a fundamental ontological unity.

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