Through the silence of nature, I attain Thy divine peace.
In certain Hermetic (an occult magical tradition) and Gnostic texts the certainty of attaining divine being is clearly expressed.
Maybe you're stuffy, but you attribute the general air of laxity to Augustine, who believes man can attain perfection only through divine grace, not human effort.
The second form of the immediate is the explicitly mystical sort of experience in which the aim is to pass beyond every form of articulation and to attain unity with the divine.
Their carver is Odin, the highest and oldest of the Aesir, who must "sacrifice himself to himself" on the gallows of the world tree in order to attain the full measure of divine wisdom.
For Molinos, the way of Christian perfection was the interior way of contemplation to which anyone with divine assistance can attain and that can last for years, even for a lifetime.
He insisted that we confront evil as evil and not regard it as a means to attain a preordained but inscrutable Divine purpose.
The Sword signifies Divine Knowledge and the Human Head signifies human Ego which must be slain by Divine Knowledge in order to attain Moksha.
25:5 as teaching that man needs divine help in order to attain the truth (Iggeret ha-Halom, 488); or simply taking Ps.
He therefore opposes both skepticism, which denies the possibility of certain knowledge, and illuminationism, which insists that we need special divine illumination in order to attain certainty.
This creates the felicity, al-sa'âdah, human beings strive to attain, for it brings them close to the divine status of the Agent Intellect, having conjoined with it as much as is possible.
