Greco-Christian stream·Rhineland Mystics·Heinrich Suso·Chapter XLVIII.
Source context
- Theme
- the soul's perseverance in spiritual suffering as path to union with Eternal Wisdom
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Rhineland mysticism (Eckhart, Tauler)Cross-tradition congruence obtains between Suso's treatment of redemptive suffering and the Rhineland mystical tradition's emphasis on Gelassenheit — the soul's self-abandonment — as prerequisite for union with the divine ground.
- Dionysian apophatic theologySuso's late-chapter emphasis on the soul stripped of creaturely supports parallels the Pseudo-Dionysian via negativa, in which all positive attributes of the divine are progressively negated to open the intellect to unmediated union.
Chapter XLVIII.
How the Servitor's face was once seen to shine with light while he was preaching.
Once when the Servitor was preaching at Cologne with great fervour, there sat among his hearers a beginner in the spiritual life, who had been recently converted to God. Now while this beginner was attending diligently to the preacher, he saw with the eyes of his soul that the preacher's face began to be transfigured with a ravishing brightness, and three times it became like the radiant sun when its splendour is at the highest ; and the face, moreover, was so pure, that the beginner saw himself reflected in it. This vision brought him very great con- solation in his sufferings, and confirmed him in a holy life.
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