Quaffing Immortality
August 06, 2004
tNP Editor Caleb Stegall in the Spring 2004 issue of the Geneva Review:
“The knower must ‘quaff immortality’ before he [can] see God… . Knowing comes when the knower is indwelt by the known. It is the sacramental participation of the soul in the epistemic ground of its own existence. There remains interpretive work to be done, and reason to be applied, but the defining character of participatory consciousness is not a quest for certainty but for adherence. It is a movement of the spirit, a love, a willful fidelity to the sometimes felt and often not felt presence driven by longing for the moments of lucid participation and the terror of abandonment.”
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