Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew My love for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to thee My beauty.
I will add another quotation first:
To every discerning and illumined heart it is evident that God, the unknowable Essence, the divine Being, is immensely exalted beyond every human attribute, such as corporeal existence, ascent and descent, egress and regress. Far be it from His glory that human tongue should adequately recount His praise, or that human heart comprehend His fathomless mystery. He is and hath ever been veiled in the ancient eternity of His Essence, and will remain in His Reality everlastingly hidden from the sight of men.
so God is unknowable, we cannot possibly get to know His essence. however, through His love for us, we are created and have acquired the ability to get to know Him and reflect His glory. God has "engraved on us His image"; we are able to acquire the qualities of God and show them forth as virtues, such as patience, tolerance, discipline, justice, kindness, and, of course, love. here's a beautiful extract of the qualities of God's love for man:
... the love that flows from God to man; it consists of the inexhaustible graces, the Divine effulgence and heavenly illumination. Through this love the world of being receives life. Through this love man is endowed with physical existence, until, through the breath of the Holy Spirit -- this same love -- he receives eternal life and becomes the image of the Living God. This love is the origin of all the love in the world of creation.
also read this compilation on the concept of spiritual beauty.
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