Revelations of Divine Love · 118 of 127 · tr. Grace Warrack

Chapter LXXVII-b

Flee we to our Lord and we shall be comforted, touch we Him and we shall be made clean, cleave we to Him and we shall be sure, and safe from all manner of peril.

For our courteous Lord willeth that we should be as homely with Him as heart may think or soul may desire.

But [let us] beware that we take not so recklessly this homeliness as to leave courtesy.

For our Lord Himself is sovereign homeliness, and as homely as He is, so courteous He is: for He is very courteous.

And the blessed creatures that shall be in heaven with Him without end, He will have them like to Himself in all things.

And to be like our Lord perfectly, it is our very salvation and our full bliss.

And if we wot not how we shall do all this, desire we of our Lord and He shall teach us: for it is His own good-pleasure and His worship; blessed may He be!

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Themes

Bhaktisoteriology

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 emphasizes a path of loving devotion and self-surrender ('Flee we,' 'touch we,' 'desire we') to a personal deity as the means of salvation.

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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 portrayed as a personal, responsive, and 'courteous' Lord who actively wills intimacy with the soul and teaches those who desire it.

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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's intimate connection with God through 'touching,' 'cleaving,' and becoming 'homely' with Him as the path to safety and salvation.

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Prayerpraxis

Direct address to the divine, whether petitionary, contemplative, or liturgical; speech and silence offered upward.

The text concludes with an exhortation to 'desire we of our Lord' as a direct address and petition for divine teaching.

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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 being 'like our Lord perfectly' is the very salvation and full bliss of the believer, defining the goal as transformation into divine likeness.

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