Beauty is the main object and motive of each charity. So if God loves us with love ineffable, we can zawnioskować here that the soul by grace received a wonderful and divine beauty, which we maintain the more confident, knowing that God's love not only appreciate things according to their true value, but it is powerful enough to make them worthy of himself made.
Indeed, when God leads and closer to our soul with love, supernatural, yet it takes a nadziemskÄ… beauty, for which his eye was incumbent on us with ineffable delight. Because the love of God working in us by grace, and for the grace for us to shed itself, therefore, That up the beauty of grace must contain in itself and give it to us. It teaches
St. Augustine, when he speaks of man's elevation to the supernatural state: "Human nature, rising above all others, is transformed in the form of irregular shaped, when the unjust shall be excused."
even more clearly teaches St. Cyril of Alexandria, that the that the grace we are occasionally transformed the character of God, whereby we receive the gift of supernatural beauty. In fact, the soul turns when a pure mirror, reflecting the beauty of the incomparable majesty of God's purity and fullness. Finally, by grace we become a true temple of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Trinity, the real throne of God, the sky in this vale of tears, a city of spirit, a Jewish Jerusalem was just a figure.
What, then, God did not use to decorate the church just as it befits His Majesty! If people try to do so in order to visibly Deity temples were great and wonderful, and do not regret this. purpose or effort, nor riches, nor ideas art, how much more enhances the shrine of God, and adorn our souls, where, in spirit and in truth part of the answer is no! If the inherent beauty of soul, incomparably greater than the beauty of all creatures, and even the sun itself, - what then shall we say about the supernatural beauty of the flowing grace? In fact far greater range that exists between grace and nature of the soul, rather than between the latter and with all the pomp of the visible world.
Chapter 36 novels of novels. Part I.
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