>>23035800I’m not orthodox
And theosis is a rationalization of what I am speaking of but I’m not speaking about theosis in particular
It is called illumination in the catholic west
But even that is but a rationalization
The Greeks and first Christians called it metanoia
This can be seen in Paul
Did Paul accept when Peter said something stupid because of his rational reasoning or his blind beliefs?
Nope
But all of this is immaterial I am simply speaking that the truth can be experienced
Through katharsis and love god will send his son as a light to dissipate the dark cloud of unknowning
Plato described it as a cave
Pythagorus taught the path to it as the holy 4
But all these are imperfect union offered to those who seek but only those who know the truth of Christ can find the gate to perfect union
God became man so men might become gods
Or as brother aquinas said
On the feast of St. Nicholas [in 1273, Aquinas] was celebrating Mass when he received a revelation that so affected him that he wrote and dictated no more, leaving his great work the Summa Theologiae unfinished. To Brother Reginald’s (his secretary and friend) expostulations he replied, “The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.” When later asked by Reginald to return to writing, Aquinas said, “I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw.”
