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2 I O SlGURD LINDQUIST
Liknande uttryck äro: »inpouring of the Spirit», »inpouring
of the sweetness of holy love», »inpoured savour of heavenly
sweetness», »a love which fires the heart», »the soul is set
aglow with the love of God», »sweetly refreshed with delicious
love», »experiences joy ineffable».1 — Av vikt ur flera
synpunkter är följande:
»When the Lörd comes as a consuming fire and His Presence
is understood in the power by which the soul is changed and in the
love by which it is inflamed . . . then ensues a certain sudden and
unwonted enlargement of mind and an inpouring of light illuminating
the intellect . . . But not through open doors, but through narrow
apertures does that ray of so great brightness penetrate, so long as
this sorrv wall of the body subsists.»2
Och vidare ett annat ställe:
»O holy and chaste love! O sweet and tender aftection! O
puré and perfect intention of the will! surely so rauch möre perfect
and puré as there is in it now nothing mixed of its own; the möre
sweet and tender as all is divine that is felt. To be thus affected
is to be deified (sic affici deificari est). As a drop of water mingled
in wine is seen to pass away utterly from itself, while it takes ön
the taste and colour of the wine; as a kindled and glowing iron
becomes most like the fire, having put off its former and natural
form; and as the air, when flooded with the light of the sun, is
transformed into the same clarity of light, so that it seems to be
not merely illumined, but the light itself: so it will needs be that
all human affection in the Saints will then, in some ineffable way,
melt from itself and be entirely poured over into the will of God.
Otherwise how will God be all in all, if in man somewhat remains
over of man?»3
Om också Bernhard eljest ej talar så mycket om
uppgåendet i gudomen, enheten med Gud i mystisk mening, sä finnes
här dock den tanken fullt klar hos honom, den överskygges
endast av kärleken. Bredvid nyss anförda citat kan som positivt
komplement sättas följande:
»Love is filled with itself, and where love has come it
over-comes and transforms all other feelings. Wherefore the soul that
1 Butler a. a. s. 151.
3 Butler s. 152.
3 Butler s. 159.
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