Обожение всех людей. Ко дню памяти свт. Григория Богослова.
"Он [свт. Григорий] придерживался в этом случае одинакового со свт. Афанасием образа мыслей, того именно, что если Христос не соделался совершенным человеком, то не совершилось обожение всего человека, возведение его в богоподобное достоинство. "Сын Божий стал человеком, чтобы человек стал Богом". Человеческая природа Христа обожествилась от
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1. The body in which Christ Himself arose from the dead was paradisiacal and divine, and could not be apprehended by anything of an earthly nature; but as the terrestrial body was absorbed therein, therefore the Lord could make Himself visible to His disciples:
"Although Christ not always walked visibly among His disciples, nevertheless He showed Himself often visibly, tangibly, and substantially to them in the shape of the body which He had occupied while upon this earth, and which the new body had absorbed, but which it had the power to represent again." (Three Princ., xxiv. 97.)
2. The bodies of the first human beings were of a spiritual, celestial nature; but ... they became terrestrial and material:
"God had given to man a body constituted of pure, essential power, after the nature of the soul, and which, if compared with the grossly terrestrial substance, may be looked upon as being a spiritual body." (Mysterium, xvi. 3.)
"The body of the first human beings was of a celestial kind; but when they ate of the terrestrial fruit and absorbed it into the bodies the temperature separated, and the terrestrial body became manifest according to all its qualities." (Grace, vii. 5.)
3. The new life which is accorded to man by means of his regeneration in the power of faith and prayer is not a mere spirit, but corporeal and substantial. The "body of the resurrection," even if it is invisible to mortal eyes, is far more durable and indestructible than any imaginable physical form:
"While Christ eats the faith and the prayer of our soul, the human faith, together with the prayer and praise of God, become corporeal in the word of the power, and this new being is then one with the substance of the celestial corporeity of Christ, the eternal body of Christ." (Mysterium, lxx.)
"The poor imprisoned soul, shut up within the darkness of death, is a hungering magical fire, which attracts from the incarnation of Christ the reopened substantiality of God, and out of this swallowing or nourishing she produces a body similar to Divinity. Thus, then, the poor soul will be clothed with a body of light, comparable to the fire in a burning wick." (Letters, xi. 21.)
"The new man is not a mere spirit, but he lives in flesh and blood, comparable to gold in a rock, which is not merely spiritual, but has a body; nut only such a body as that of the gross rock, but a body which can stand the test of the fire." (Menschwerdung, i. 4.)
4. The creation of this new body is the beginning of the union of man with divine glory ...:
"By means of the introduction of the divine will man becomes reunited to God and reborn in his emotional nature. ... There is then still attracted to him the carnal quality, but in the spirit he walks with God, and thus there is born within the earthly man of flesh a new spiritual man with divine perceptions and with a divine will, killing day by day the lust of the flesh, and by divine power rendering the world-i.e., the external life-heavenly, and causing heaven-i.e., the inner spiritual world-to become visible in the external world, so that God becomes man and man God, until finally the tree reaches its perfection, when the external shell will drop off, and it then stands there as a spiritual tree of life in the garden of God." (Mysterium, Supplement, viii.)
5. The celestial body is formed by means of the terrestrial body. There is no regeneration after the body has died:
"The soul proper is nothing corporeal.; but the body in the tincture grows either celestial or infernal. It is not a tangible body in an external aspect, but a power-body; the body of God; the celestial body of Christ." (Forty Questions, vii. 18.)
"After this life there is no regeneration, for the four elements with their principles have departed." (Threefold Life, i. 1.)
Franz Hartmann. The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme, 1891, 338 p.
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