Man's knowledge of God is inevitably revealed and manifests itself as active love for creatures, a love that is already given to me in immediate experience. And manifested love for creatures is contemplated objectively as beauty. Whence the pleasure, the rejoicing, the consolation in love during its contemplation. That which makes one rejoice is called beauty; love as an object of contemplation is beauty.
St. Pavel (Florensky)
Monday, January 02, 2006
Love part IV
Follows Love part III
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Jakob,
When is you heading back to Chicago?
I'm coming in on a train on Friday, I'll be at Church that night.
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