19. It is written that for him who is on the threshold of divinity no law can be framed, no guide can exist. Yet to enlighten the disciple, the final struggle may be thus expressed: Hold fast to that which has neither substance nor existence. 20. Listen only to the voice which is s...
)could lure the princeofthe world toacontest; that the Son of Godmight offer him his human flesh as bait,and that the hidden divinity might hold him fast with itshook].Robert Grosseteste,De cessatione legalium3.1.28,ed. RichardC.Dales and EdwardB.King,Auc-tores BritanniciMediiA...
The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. —Ram Da...