Madam Guyon describes her communication with Father La Combe as "divine." Just because it was "without words" it is fascinating to people; it is "divine." "God" must be in it somewhere. Human beings can communicate without words with one another. It is done all the time. There are many levels of communicaton. To what level may depend on the awareness of the soul. Madame Guyon states that the others she tried to communicate with could not communicate back to her. Maybe they were at a lesser state of awareness than she, I don't know. I wasn't there. Maybe she didn't understand THEIR wordless language.
"It was in this that we learned, by our own experience, the operations of the heavenly Word to reduce souls into unity with itself, and what purity one may arrive at in this life."
I really like this sentence. All human beings have this "heavenly word" inside of them! God created us ... your bible says His Word created us and apart from this, nothing came into being. Man was created with this ... "Word" inside of us. How could we not be if we were created by "Him"? We are "divine" from the start. But what happens is we are not encouraged to trust it (trust ourselves) and depend on it and learn from it when we are young ... and we are brainwashed and traumatized into accepting whatever culture and religion we are born into, and these beliefs and attitudes are forced onto us, like rape. So begins in adulthood the painful process of "reducing souls into unity with itself" ("itself" being the original Word inside of us from the beginning that we were created with).
You know, someone stated on this board that people can be at many different places in their spiritual walk ... they can be at many different places "inside" of themselves. This changes ... human beings are transient beings ... we grow, change, learn new information that rings a bell inside of us and we continue with this new information and apply it, until it doens't work for us any more. We outgrow it. No one is stagnant ... stagnant water stinks after a while. So basically at this point in my life, what I believe about God can be loosely defined as this ...
He created me. He kicked me out into the wild, crazy jungle (some "Father" huh). With a backpack containing a few supplies. I protested ... "it's dangerous out here! I don't know what I'm doing! I'm scared!" He said ... "Look, I gave you all you needed; you are fully equipped. What you do with it is up to you. I need to leave and I won't be back." And he leaves me there ... completely alone. Seemingly. Just me and my "backpack." When I first open it and look at what he left me with, my heart sinks ... what the heck is this? HOW can I use it? What does it do? But eventually I figure out a few things. And then I meet others who have figured out a few things (communication). And together we "share" (if there is love). And our needs are met. And thus we find humanity all over the globe. Whether we will share in love with each other or not ... may be the continuation of us or the end of us. And no "God" or "Creator" I don't think, will interfere with what we choose. That's how I see it … at least for now!
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