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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE WORLD’S RESURRECTION \nAND ASCENSION \nBy Hans Urs von Balthasar \n◊◊◊ \nThe masters of the contemplation of the ascending Word are the Greeks… \nThe idea of the “gardener” and the “do not hold me\,” as not holding on to the \nWord on earth\, but letting him ascend\, is charmingly and passionately worked \nout by them in variations. Augustine joins [to this] the idea of the completion of \nthe Ascension in one’s heart\, as a longing for the home where Christ lives: \nAs if the Lord\, he says\, were saying to the apostles: “You do not \nwant to let me go\, just as everyone likes to hold his friend back and \nsays to him\, as it were\, stay with us just a little longer\, our soul \ndelights in the sight of you – but it is better that you no longer see \nthis flesh and are mindful instead of the divine. I am removing \nmyself from you outwardly\, but I am filling you with myself from \nwithin.“ \nDoes Christ\, then\, enter the heart according to the flesh\, with the flesh? In \nhis divinity he possesses the heart. In his flesh he speaks to the heart by the \nsight of him\, and he exhorts us\, but inside us he takes up his dwelling place\, so \nthat we are converted and vivified inwardly by him and fashioned out of him\, \nthe uncreated model of all creation… \n[Thus we can say that] the humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ is so united \nto his divinity that\, while still preserving the essence of the two natures\, they \nform a single unity. As his divinity transcends all reason\, so does his humanity\, \nwhich has been raised above all visible and spiritual creatures\, above all places \nand times\, above all description and definition… It has been raised\, as it were \nabove “Being\,” [and is now] ungraspable and indiscoverable by all creatures… \nThis transcendent position makes the Word the basis of all the world’s \nresurrection and ascension. His ascension\, he says\, takes place beyond all the \nmotions of this transient world and all the influence of the heavenly spheres\, for \nalthough he is omnipresent in his divinity\, his place is properly that where there \nis no change\, no suffering\, no grief\, as there is in the world of time. \nWe say that this place of eternal joy and eternal peace exists above the \nskies\, although it cannot be perceived\, described\, or defined in terms of place. \nThis place is the center and the inclusive periphery of all spiritual beings\, and it \nis above everything\, because the spiritual power of reason penetrates \neverything. Thus\, Christ has ascended above every place and every time\, since \nhe is truth itself and does not sit\, as it were\, at the edge of the cosmos\, but in the \ncenter – as he is the center of all spiritual\, reasonable beings – as their life.
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