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God reveals Himself to each person according to each person's mode of conceiving Him. To those whose aspiration transcends the complex structure of matter, and whose psychic powers are fully integrated in a single unceasing gyration around God, He reveals Himself as Unity and Trinity. In this way He both shows forth His own existence and mystically makes known the mode in which that existence subsists. To those whose aspiration is limited to the complex structure of matter, and whose psychic powers are not integrated, He reveals Himself not as He is but as they are, showing that they are completely caught in the material dualism whereby the physical world is conceived as composed of matter and form. —St. Maximus the Confessor, "Various Texts on Theology, the Divine Economy, and Virtue and Vice"


Emphases mine. The latter point brings to mind the "mirror" concept [personal profile] sdi shared, I believe, from Taoism.
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