A Consuming Fire

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"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." —Christ

"Deos facturus qui homines erant, homo factus est qui Deus erat." —Athanasius

We shall all be united with the Divine—eventually, and by diverse, winding paths, after the consummation of the ages.

For the Unknown (and Unknowable) God is a consuming fire. Some, perhaps many of us, are bound to take a longer path: the Divine Light can only seem an affront to our carefully cultivated personae, and so we flinch and flee from it. In thrall to spirits themselves in flight from the Alpha and Omega, we throng the spring of Lethe, drowning in forgetfulness and returning again to walk that fraught road among the exiles.

But others, perhaps more fortunate, recognize in the divine powers the expression and full flowering of the Good, the mark of Divine Eros, the same that generates the worlds. Partaking of Eunoe, they bask in the Divine Light and return to the source, to assist in the labors of angels, until the restoration of all things.