(Yes this is a phone post. It is lengthy because I copied and pasted it from the old computadora.)
We long for God, not because goodness is God; as if the concept of Good were our ultimate object of desire. It is not goodness to which we aspire. If it is, we should cease our pursuit thereof. Goodness - even goodness - cannot fulfill the deepest soul-longings. This is because goodness is not sufficient upon itself; goodness is not its own foundation. If we would draw from it, we would find finitude, even as we are finite. So would be our dissatisfying realization should we seek solace at the feet of this and all virtues in and of themselves, for so they are.
We long for goodness because God is goodness; that is to say,
we seek all of God, wherever we may find him, and goodness is part of the fullness of God. Thus we seek all virtues, because each of them finds their "enspiritment", if you will, in God, for God is spirit. The quintessence of virtues, and of Virtue, is to be discovered in and as part of and proceeding from the nature of God. In seeking any and all Good, therefore, we seek to glimpse at the fullness of God from our perspective. So, then, we long for God because God is goodness; since it is God who is our ultimate object of desire. At this point, where we have obtained but the slightest of the Source, something happens which we, perhaps, might not have forseen.
The finite is but a segment, in the mathematical sense. It exists in its quadrant, fixed between its own beginning and end. It will remain until done away with. There have been attempts by the segment to transcend itself, but they have been frail at best, failing to imprint the least parabolic mark on what has been set in place as inherently limited, and then self-limited. The infinite also is, existing on a plane, and planes, above, beyond, around, and through that of the finite. The infinite is not self-seeking, as if parsimony were ideal. Instead, infinity invites and subsumes and transforms the segment, such that the two become one. The process is sloppy and seems unnecessary, until one comes to understand that the line segment was part of the plane at one time. This process, then, is reunion; the molding of inadequacy into that of sufficiency, unto overflow.
God takes us up into his nature, invited into the totality of the Godhead. The journey is messy, painful, and illogical, but there is no other way by which humanity might be saved. He is the new, and thusly does away with the old. We are the new, by virtue of being found in him. In its pursuit of infinity, the finite is covered and purged by the infinite, and so becomes like the infinite.
We long for God, not because goodness is God; as if the concept of Good were our ultimate object of desire. It is not goodness to which we aspire. If it is, we should cease our pursuit thereof. Goodness - even goodness - cannot fulfill the deepest soul-longings. This is because goodness is not sufficient upon itself; goodness is not its own foundation. If we would draw from it, we would find finitude, even as we are finite. So would be our dissatisfying realization should we seek solace at the feet of this and all virtues in and of themselves, for so they are.
We long for goodness because God is goodness; that is to say,
we seek all of God, wherever we may find him, and goodness is part of the fullness of God. Thus we seek all virtues, because each of them finds their "enspiritment", if you will, in God, for God is spirit. The quintessence of virtues, and of Virtue, is to be discovered in and as part of and proceeding from the nature of God. In seeking any and all Good, therefore, we seek to glimpse at the fullness of God from our perspective. So, then, we long for God because God is goodness; since it is God who is our ultimate object of desire. At this point, where we have obtained but the slightest of the Source, something happens which we, perhaps, might not have forseen.
The finite is but a segment, in the mathematical sense. It exists in its quadrant, fixed between its own beginning and end. It will remain until done away with. There have been attempts by the segment to transcend itself, but they have been frail at best, failing to imprint the least parabolic mark on what has been set in place as inherently limited, and then self-limited. The infinite also is, existing on a plane, and planes, above, beyond, around, and through that of the finite. The infinite is not self-seeking, as if parsimony were ideal. Instead, infinity invites and subsumes and transforms the segment, such that the two become one. The process is sloppy and seems unnecessary, until one comes to understand that the line segment was part of the plane at one time. This process, then, is reunion; the molding of inadequacy into that of sufficiency, unto overflow.
God takes us up into his nature, invited into the totality of the Godhead. The journey is messy, painful, and illogical, but there is no other way by which humanity might be saved. He is the new, and thusly does away with the old. We are the new, by virtue of being found in him. In its pursuit of infinity, the finite is covered and purged by the infinite, and so becomes like the infinite.
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