I dunno if the resurrection body is just a state which we could even conceivably achieve if we had less blinders. Yet on the other hand, Mary was assumed without significant change, which would seem to imply that that glory is not a sea-change, but a gradual progress. Which implies that the mind meets God's action. But God does not change; therefore the action is always going. THEREFORE, it's the mind's "fault," so to speak (as distinct from something which can be solved through some particular gnosis or even a furious act of will). I always thought there was something very interesting in Fachinelli (Lacan's chosen disciple), who speculated against the Lacanian "Lac" that there was always, phenomenologically speaking, a sublime infinite surplus of joy, and all our evil was just so much rejection of it. We could fit this in to the Christian picture without altering it, I think.
Max - thanks for this brief flash of resurrection light - closing with a footnote that brings to mind the dynamic of gazing into a mirror to see our very true selves(!) (few seem to see this undeniable implication in, perhaps, Paul's most mystical statement) - and, therefore, seeing Christ... who (in and through His Body) "fills everything in every way..."
Every leaf, every atom, every grain of sand proclaims the Gospel of the Risen Christ, and yet loves nothing more than to hear it told. Let us go forth and minister to them, and be ministered unto, that we may delight together in the glory of the only-begotten of the Father.
I dunno if the resurrection body is just a state which we could even conceivably achieve if we had less blinders. Yet on the other hand, Mary was assumed without significant change, which would seem to imply that that glory is not a sea-change, but a gradual progress. Which implies that the mind meets God's action. But God does not change; therefore the action is always going. THEREFORE, it's the mind's "fault," so to speak (as distinct from something which can be solved through some particular gnosis or even a furious act of will). I always thought there was something very interesting in Fachinelli (Lacan's chosen disciple), who speculated against the Lacanian "Lac" that there was always, phenomenologically speaking, a sublime infinite surplus of joy, and all our evil was just so much rejection of it. We could fit this in to the Christian picture without altering it, I think.
Max - thanks for this brief flash of resurrection light - closing with a footnote that brings to mind the dynamic of gazing into a mirror to see our very true selves(!) (few seem to see this undeniable implication in, perhaps, Paul's most mystical statement) - and, therefore, seeing Christ... who (in and through His Body) "fills everything in every way..."
Every leaf, every atom, every grain of sand proclaims the Gospel of the Risen Christ, and yet loves nothing more than to hear it told. Let us go forth and minister to them, and be ministered unto, that we may delight together in the glory of the only-begotten of the Father.