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When we have thus become seeing, we can behold in joy the eternal
coming of our Bridegroom; and that is the second point of which we
would speak. What is this coming of our Bridegroom which is
eternal? It is the new birth and a new enlightenment without
interruption; for the ground from which the Light shines forth,
and which is the Light itself, is life-giving and fruitful, and
therefore the manifestation of the Eternal Light is renewed
without ceasing in the hiddenness of the spirit. Behold, every
creaturely work, and every exercise of virtue, must here cease;
for here God works alone in the high nobility of the spirit. And
here there is nothing but an eternal seeing and staring at that
Light, by that Light, and in that Light. And the coming of the
Bridegroom is so swift that He is perpetually coming, and yet
dwelling within with unfathomable riches; and ever coming anew, in
His Person, without interruption, with such new brightness that it
seems as though he had never come before. For His coming consists,
beyond time, in an eternal Now, which is ever received with new
longings and new joy. Behold, the delight and the joy which this
Bridegroom brings with Him in His coming are boundless and without
measure, for they are Himself. And this is why the eyes with which
the spirit sees and gazes at its Bridegroom, have opened so wide
that they can never close again. For the spirit continues for ever
to see and to stare at the secret manifestation of God. And the
grasp of the spirit is opened so wide for the coming in of the
Bridegroom, that the spirit itself becomes that Breadth Which it
grasps. And so God is grasped and beheld through God; wherein
rests all our blessedness. This is the second point: in which we
receive, without interruption, the eternal coming of our
Bridegroom in our spirit.
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