“This brightness is so great that the loving contemplative, in his ground wherein he rests, sees and feels nothing but an incomprehensible Light; and through that Simple Nudity which enfolds all things, he finds himself and feels himself to be that same Light by which he sees and nothing else.... Blessed are the eyes which are thus seeing, for they possess eternal life.”
The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
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