Divine Eros (Popular Patristics Series) by St. Symeon the New Theologian

Author:St. Symeon the New Theologian
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780881419191
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2011-04-25T22:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Mt 19.5; Gen 2.24.

2 Rev 4.8; Eph 3.9.

3 Mt 22.30; Lk 6.35.

4 φρένα.

5 1 Tim 6.16; Jn 1.18.

6 διανοίας.

7 νοῒ . . . ψυχῇ . . . καρδίᾳ.

Hymn 28

Concerning the intelligible1 revelation of the energies of the divine light, and the rational2 and divine activity of the virtuous life.

Let me be confined alone in my cell, (Mt 6.6)

leave me alone with the benevolent God alone,

keep far away, remove yourself to a distance, leave me alone

to die in the presence of the God Who fashioned me!

5 May no one knock on the door, may no one release their voice,

let none of my relatives or friends visit me,

may no one draw my thought and tear me away

from the contemplation of the good and beautiful Master,

may no one give food to me, nor provide me with drink!

10 For it will be sufficient for me to die in the presence of my God,

before the merciful God, the benevolent God

Who descended to earth in order to call sinners, (Mt 9.13)

and to lead them to divine life with Him.

Hereafter I do not wish to look upon the light of this world, (Jn 11.9)

15 nor the sun itself, nor the things in the world.

For I see my Master, I see the King,

I see Him Who is truly light and creator of all light,

I see the fountain of all good, I see the cause of all things,

I see the beginning without beginning, from which all things were made,

20 through which everything lives and is filled with nourishment.

It is by his choice they happen and are seen,

and by his will all things cease to be.

And so how would I go out of my cell and leave Him behind?

Leave me, I shall mourn and weep day

25 and night for what I lost when looking at this world,

seeing this sun, seeing the light of this world,

both perceptible and dark, it does not illuminate the soul.

The blind without eyes, living in the world, after they

have departed from it will also be the same as those who see now.

30 I also was led astray in the world, the whole of me was rejoicing,

I reckoned that there was no other light at all,

no light that is also life, like I said, and the cause (Jn 1.4)

of being, whatever is or shall be,

and I was like an atheist, not knowing my God. (Eph 2.12)

35 But now, by his ineffable compassion, He was well pleased

to appear to me, the wretch, and to be revealed.3

I saw and I knew that He is truly God of all things,

God, Whom no one among all human beings in the world has seen. (1 Tim 6.16)

For He is outside the world, outside light and darkness,

40 outside the air, and mind, and all senses.

And that is why when I saw Him I found myself beyond the senses.

And so you who are dominated by the senses, allow me

not only to close my cell and sit inside, (Mt 6.6)

but also to dig a pit underground and to hide there.

45 And passing my life there I shall be outside the whole world.

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