"Christ’s prayer is fulfilled in those united to God in this threefold manner. With God they will ebb and flow, and will always be in repose, Iin possessing and enjoying . They will go out and in and find nourishment both within and without. They are drunk with love And have passed away into God in a dark luminosity."
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