Friday, December 2 : Symeon the New Theologian

[Christ speaks:] When I created Adam, I allowed him to see me and thus be established in the dignity of the angels… With his bodily eyes he beheld my whole creation but with those of the mind he looked on the face of me, his Creator. He contemplated my glory and spoke with me constantly. But when, in defiance of my command, he tasted of the tree, then he became blind and fell into the darkness of death … But I took pity on him and came down from on high. I who am completely invisible Shared the visibility of his flesh, And having received from the flesh a beginning, having become man, I was seen by all. So why did I readily take on all this? Because this was the real reason For which I had created Adam: to see me. When he had been blinded And, following him, all his descendants as well, I could not bear that I myself should remain In divine glory and abandon those … I had created with my own hands. But I became in everything like all men, Bodily with those who are body, And freely joined myself to them. Now you see what my wish to be seen by men is like. … So how can you say I am hiding from you, Not letting myself be seen? In truth I shine out, but you, you fail to look at me.
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