este singura forma de manifestare prin care noi oamenii avem
acces la cunoasterea Lui. Este o lumina intelegatoare, care are
personalitate.
Poate cunoasteti descrierea ce a facut-o Nicolae de la Rohia
experientei sale, atunci cand l-a vizitat Lumina.
Mai jos am sa copiez o descriere la fel de valoroasa a unui
ieromonah rus, Sofronie Saharov, un om educat.
Imi cer iertare, este in engleza.
Its nature is mysterious - in what terms can it be described?
Incomprehensible, invisible, yet it may sometimes be seen by the
phisycal eye. Quiet and gentle, it draws heart and mind to itself,
until the earth is forgotten, one's spirit caught up into another sphere. It is a soft Light, yet more powerful than all around.
In strange fashion it embraces from without. You see it, but your attention is drawn deep within the inner man, into the heart burning with a love now compassionate, now grateful. It may happen
that one is not aware of the material world, of external
circumstances, and one sees oneself as light.
Aches and pains disappear. Earthly cares fade away. Anxieties are absorbed into a sweet peace. (...)
This holy Light, coming in strengh, brings humble love, banishes all
doubt and fear, obliterates every earthly consideration - the whole
pyramid of secular grades and hierarchies. The repentant man
becomes a nobody, as it were: he no longer stands in the way of his brothers, seeks no place for himself in the world. This Light is in itself
life imperishable, suffused by the peace of love. It brings to our spirit knowledge of another, indescribable Being. The mind is stayed, above reflection by the very fact of its entry ionto a new form of life.
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