"And there you thumb|In a new embrace, with a new torrent of eternal love: all the elect, angels and men, from the last to the first are embraced 154px|thumb|It is a living and fruitful unity, which is the source and the fount of all life thumb|All creatures are there without themselves as in their eternal origin, One essence and one life with God 154px|thumb|These enlightened people are lifted up with free mind above reason...To the summit of their spirit thumb|Their naked understanding is penetrated with eternal clarity as the air is penetrated by the light of the sun. thumb|The bare elevated will is transformed and penetrated with fathomless love, just as iron is penetrated by the fire [[File:Cole Thomas The Garden of Eden 1828.jpg|thumb|[God] gives Himself in the soul’s essence...Where the soul’s powers are unified...And undergo God’s transformation in simplicity. In this place all is full and overflowing, for the spirit feels itself as one truth and one richness. And one unity with God]] thumb|All spirits thus raised up Melt away and are annihilated by reason of enjoyment in God’s essence thumb|They fall away from themselves and are lost in a bottomless unknowingthumb|With God they will ebb and flow, and will always be in repose...They are drunk with love and have passed away into God in a dark luminosity must accept that the Persons yield and lose themselves whirling in essential love, that is, in enjoyable unity; nevertheless, they always remain according to their personal properties In the working of the Trinity. You may thus understand that the divine nature is eternally at rest and without mode according to the simplicity of its essence. It is why all that God has chosen and enfolded with eternal personal love, he has possessed essentially, enjoyably in unity, with essential love."
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