The Zoo Fence

CONTEMPLATION is
a knowing without mode,
For ever abiding above the reason.
Never can it descend therein,
And above it
can the reason never ascend.
The shining forth of
That which has no Mode
is as a fair Mirror,
Wherein there shines
the Everlasting Light of God.
It is without attributes,
And therein all the workings
of the reason fail.

It is not God;
But it is that Light,
Whereby we see Him.

They, who walk
in the Divine Light
Thereof, Discover
in themselves the Unconfined.
That which has no Mode
is above reason, not without it;
And it perceives
all things without wonder.

Wonder is far beneath it,
And the Life of Contemplation
is without wonder.
That which has no Mode sees,
but knows not what is seen,
Since it is above all,
and is neither This, nor That.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck

Still

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