If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to My breast.

-George Herbert


Showing posts with label theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theology. Show all posts

Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Resurrection of the Body II

The Resurrection of the Body signifies the eventual and everlasting adornment of the soul - as a Divine bequest in a restored and consummated creation - with an outward, symbolic and imaginal manifestation of it's particular inward and immaterial beauties, both as a center of awareness and action via spiritualized senses and "physicality", and as a focus for the awareness, admiration and love of other beings.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Resurrection of the Body

The resurrection of the body is God's victory over the limitations, accidents and distortions of individuality; a victory which, at the same time, preserves individuality intact as something willed and precious. It is the Divine affirmation that the specific, relative and temporal has been created an eternally valid (though by no means static) revelation of a modality or aspect of the Universal, Absolute and Eternal, and constitutes, as it were, a unique entrance to relationship with the Divine.