"Suso has even left a diagrammatic picture of the relations subsisting between Godhead, triune God and creatures. In this very curious and interesting drawing a chain of manifestation connects the mysterious symbol of the Divine Ground with the three Persons of the Trinity, and the Trinity in turn is connected in a descending scale with angels and human beings. These last, as the drawing vividly shows, may make one of two choices. They can either live the life of the outer man, the life of the separative selfhood; in which case they are lost (for, in the words of the Theologia Germanica, “nothing burns in hell but the self”). Or else they can identify themselves with the inner man, in which case it becomes possible for them, as Suso shows, to ascend again, through unitive knowledge, to the Trinity and even, beyond the Trinity, to the ultimate Unity of the Divine Ground."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Aldous Huxley, in his Introduction to Bhagavad-Gita : The Song of God (1944) as translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Godhead
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Godhead
24 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Godhead →
Related Quotes
"What is most needed today is a fundamental theological thinking, one centered upon the Godhead itself, and centered u…"
"Differences of credal belief are to the Indian mind nothing more than various ways of seeing the one Self and Godhead…"
"An instant's visitor the godhead shone. On life's thin border awhile the Vision stood And bent over earth's pondering…"
"All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us i…"
"We read in the Gospels that Our Lord fed many people with five loaves and two fishes. Speaking parabolically, we may …"
"Concerning the Gods, there are who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bes…"
"Give thyself more diligently to reflection: know thyself: take counsel with the Godhead; without God put thine hand i…"
"Ruysbroeck puts it extremely well. He speaks of "a waylessness and darkness in which we never find ourselves again in…"
"Whatever Jesus is, the glorious Godhead is; and to have fellowship with the Son is to have fellowship with the Father…"
"The Beatific Vision, Sat Chit Ananda, Being-Awareness-Bliss-for the first time I understood, not on the verbal level,…"