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Originally Posted by Gookid
Very interesting, I'll have to look for this. The one idea that bothers me is "The duty of the afflicted is to persevere in love..."
Blind perserverance? How does one then deal with the anger, bitterness, etc.?
Interesting.
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She talks about the "infinite distance between God and God." What she calls gravity and necessity are the obedience of matter to God's will--the brute mechanism of the world, which although it can be cruel is also beautiful. She believed that in the world of created things we yearn for God but can never have him fully, because we are in the distance between God and God. The only thing that we can experience fully here is affliction--the Cross.
When Christ thought that God the Father had forsaken him, he cried out in his ultimate affliction, when his soul became completely accursed (but he did not cease to love). At the same time, beyond this ultimate affliction, was the perfect Unity of God...Ultimate union and ultimate separation, ringing out like two notes melting into one--both representing the same perfect love.