St Justin Popovich: By the help of a good life lived in grace...

By the help of a good life lived in grace, the ascetic of faith ascends to contemplation. “To begin with he becomes confident in God’s providence towards men and is illumined by love towards his Creator and marvels at His care for the rational beings that He has made. After this there arises in him the sweetness of God and a burning love for God in his heart, a love that burns away the passions of both soul and body.”

He is then “drunk with the wine of divine love… and his thoughts are drawn beyond themselves and his heart led captive after God.”

“It seems to him at times that he is not in the body or even in this world. Such is the beginning of spiritual contemplation in a man—of contemplation and at the same time of all revelation to the mind.”

The mind “grows” with the help of contemplation and rises up to revelations “that are beyond human nature.”

In brief: in contemplation “there are brought to man all the divine contemplations and spiritual revelations that the saints receive in this world, and all the gifts and revelations that nature itself is capable of knowing in this world.”

St Justin Popovich

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