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Divine rapture The end of this process is rapture: rapture is to be “rapt in God.” as one of the mystics put it. Theophan's idea of hesychia went very deep. He put it that: “The sign of this birth is that where the spirit within him previously acted compulsively, it now begins to abide in God's presence willingly and quietly without strain, with feelings of reverence, fear and joy. Once the spirit was cramped within him, but now it is settled and stays there permanently. Now it is bliss for him to be alone with God, away from others and oblivious of external things. He acquires the kingdom of God within himself, which is peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. This immersion in God is called 'silence of the mind' <Gr. ‘hesychia'> or 'rapture in God'. "It may be very fleeting at first, but the ultimate aim is that in time it should become constant. God is in us when our spirit is truly in God. This is not a mental communion, but a living, silent immersion in God in which we are dispossessed of everything else. As a ray of sunlight takes away a drop of dew, so the Lord carries the spirit away as He touches it.” If you understand all this, you will see that it essentially about a change of consciousness. That it speaks of a consciousness found in the heart and not in the head. But Western man has to begin in the head, because that’s where most of us live.
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