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Dear Father, you speak of love of God and my whole being vibrates with yours; I feel each of the feelings you express with my being’s “every fiber.” They are so lively and penetrating that I am overwhelmed by the poignant sharpness with which they strike each chord, pick up every tired thread and lift it to a perfect frenetic pitch to meet your words in a harmonizing transparent net of ardor that transports one’s very being towards the Divine. Then, instead of approaching the Divine, I am seized by terror. Having reached this peak, all seems lost, the ladder gives way, God vanishes from sight. The creature stands desolate and lost.
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Tymieniecka, AT. (2012). Glimmerings. In: The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life. Analecta Husserliana, vol 111. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2257-6_4
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