Christian Mysticism...

"If you have not discerned that the eye of your mind has been opened,
And that it has seen the light;

If you have not perceived the sweetness of the Godhead;

If you have not been personally enlightened by the Holy Spirit…

If you have not sensed that your heart has been cleansed
And has shone with luminous reflections;

If, contrary to all expectation, you have not discovered the Christ within yourself;

If you have not been stupefied, at your vision of the divine beauty;
And have not become oblivious of human nature.

When you saw yourself so totally transfigured…..

Then tell me – how is it that you dare to make any statement at all about God?"



Symeon the New Theologian
Hymn 21. 160f. SC. Vol. 174. p. 143
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