Salesian Literature

Chapter 14:  The union of saints with God in heaven is achieved through the light of glory

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In heaven, the creature’s mind is to see God’s very essence without any medium of likeness or symbol; it will see by means of some transcendent light which will fit the mind, uplift and strengthen it, for that higher sight – the sight of something utterly sublime and radiant.

 

Our minds can know natural truths by the light of human reasoning, and even the supernatural things of grace by the light of faith; yet neither the light of reason nor of faith can gain them sight of God’s very substance.  That is why God, in the gracious ordering of his wisdom, provides a new light to fit, strengthen and endow the human mind for a sight so sublime, so far above its natural state, as is the godhead.

 

Exactly as God gives us the light of reason by which we can recognize him as the author of nature, and the light of faith by which we can see him as the source of grace, so will he give us the light of glory by which we shall contemplate him as the well-spring of bliss, of life eternal.

 

No longer a well-spring to be admired at a distance, as is now the case by faith; we shall see by the light of glory, immersed, lost within its glow.

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