What does it mean to see God's "face"? To see God "face to face"? Perhaps it is not the literal meaning that we often think it means.
Tag: St. Augustine
Confessions quote, BHT: My Late Love!
A famous quote from St. Augustine's Confessions, newly translated.
Religion vs Mysticism: A Taste Test
It can be difficult to understand the difference between organized religion and the mystical experience. An analogy can help.
Transmorality in Mysticism
Is there something beyond traditional moral notions of right and wrong? Is there a higher Law that transcends all other laws? Mysticism has something to say about that.
St. Augustine's "First Vision" Account
And being admonished by these books to return into myself, I entered into my inward soul, guided by thee... And I entered, and with the eye of my soul—such as it was—saw above the same eye of my soul and above my mind the Immutable Light.