Monday, July 4, 2011

Indistinct Images in a Mirror

Compared with the righteousness of the age to be, all earthly righteousness fulfills the role of a mirror:

It contains the image of archetypal realities, not the realities themselves as they subsist in their true and universal nature.


And compared with knowledge there, all spiritual knowledge in this world is an indistinct image:

It contains a reflection of the truth but not the truth itself as it is destined to be revealed.

St Maximos the Confessor
Second Century of Various Texts
Text 47

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