Sharing the knowledge of the angels, Angels; Day 043

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Sharing the knowledge of the angels, Angels; Day 043 2016-08-27T19:11:01-05:00 Pete Socks

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Sharing the knowledge of the angels

Dionysius the Areopagite tells us that the angels see the marvelous unity of God because they get their conceptions directly from God. We are too divided and scatterbrained to see that way under normal circumstances; but when we are gathered together in unity, we can have something of this same experience.

From the self-existing Life of God, the contemplated and contemplating powers of the angelic minds have their simple and blessed conceptions; collecting their divine knowledge, not in portions, or from portions, or sensible perceptions, or detailed reasonings, or arguing from something common to these things, but purified from everything that is material and separate, they contemplate the con- ceptions of divine things intuitively, immaterially and uniformly. They have their intellectual power and energy resplendent with the unmixed and undefiled purity, and see at a glance the divine conceptions indivisibly and immaterially. By the godlike One they are molded, as attainable by reason of the divine wisdom, to the divine and super-wise mind and reason.

And souls have their reasoning power, investigating the truth of things by going through them step by step. Through their divided and manifold variety they fall short of the single minds. But when the many are gathered together towards the One, they are deemed worthy even of conceptions equal to the angels, so far as is proper and attainable to souls. –Dionysius the Areopagite, The Divine Names, 7.2

IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . .

When I look for the truth, does it help to remember that Christ promised we would share the knowledge of the angels in the Church—that is, gathered together like the angels above, rather than apart?

CLOSING PRAYER

Father, with the Cherubim and Seraphim let me glorify you without ceasing in your Church, crowned and filled with every aid and blessing, because you are Lord and Father, Creator of all.

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