To be near unto God - pagina 189

and it is only the sinful character of our earthly existence that unites what does not belong together, makes soul and body part company, and breaks the equilibrium of the inclinations, so that what is best and holiest turns itself Like the snow-flake, into sensuality or frenzy. which comes down from the clouds pure white but is soiled through contact with the impurity of this world. Nevertheless, if we would understand what our love for God should be, we must come back to conjugal love. In the authorized version Psalm In the orig116:1 reads: ''I love the Lord." inal it only states: We would say: I I love. am in love. It is an utterance of the soul when it perceives that the power of love has irresistibly taken hold upon it; when it feels itself inwardly moved as never before, and driven by an unknown inward pressure; perceives and knows "I that this is love, and in ecstacy exclaims: love, I love, I love." And as this wonderful inner motion of the heart transports the maiden with dehght, when this love directs itself to the young man of her choice, so here the same irresistible pressure operates, only in an entirely holy manner, lifting the soul above every other thought and directing it to God. With the young maiden it was but the faint impression of the highest; here it is the highest itself. Et-ernal love, which at last moves the pure tie between God and the soul to operate fully and harmoniously, and makes the soul to love with all the intensity which human powers can command. This is not the mysticism of imagination. It is creature,

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