The mystery of spiritual conjunction
| II. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; I am the one who was slain, but behold, now I live. The mystery of birth is the antetype of the mystery of spiritual rebirth. Birth and new creation are the mysteries of the encounter with God who is our future, both tremendum (making one tremble with fear) and fascinosum (binding together in a bundle, gathering us together, drawing us in to loving embrace). |