Quotation for the Day: I have a feeling that [the] track of the VIA NEGATIVA does miss the City of the Soul, that there is another way, a more affirmative way, that leads to it and enters it. May it not be just barely possible that the Essential Reality in our universe of forty thousand million stars is a Concrete Infinite, a Being whose very nature is to reveal Himself? ... The early interpreters of Christianity were obviously exponents of THE DIVINE YES, for as St. Paul declared: The Divine Yes has at last sounded; for in Christ is the Yes of God. (II Cor. I:26, Moffatt.) The Old Testament had very often struck this affirmative note, nowhere more emphatically than in the great text of Proverbs: The spirit of man is a candle of the Lord (Prov. XX:27)--a Divine revealing place. The same note is struck in the Book of Job: There is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Eternal gives him wisdom (Job XXXII: 8). Two great passages in the Psalms, rightly translated, sound this Divine Yes: Thou O Eternal God art what I get from life (Ps. XVI:5) and Thou O Eternal God doth open up my life (Ps. CXIX:32). But St. Paul, and after him, profoundly influenced by him, St. John, became the heralds of the Gospel of the Divine Yes to the Christian world of the West. Rufus Jones The Luminous Trail, pp. 15-17
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:05:29 +0000
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