THEO1016 Lecture Notes - Sophia (Wisdom)
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God is truly infinite so he is truly in all things. Internal journey and transformation: an intuitive existential encounter with ultimate reality, enters into his own consciousness to enter divine consciousness, he does not sustain this ecstasy, he comes back, he know intuits to understand what god is. February 13, 2014: hears a story about st. anthony (the first christian monk) who sold everything to the poor and goes to the desert to devote his life to god. In the garden he hears a child say pick up and read coming from a house nearby so he picks up a bible and opens randomly to a passage on drunkenness and excess desire that relates directly to augustine. This pushes him over the edge to conversion: he cries under a fig tree, it is a liberating sorrow, realized he lacks willfulness, and had to be willing to let conversion happen.
