I Know That He Reveals Himself

Saint Symeon The New Theologian

Passages for Meditation

I sit alone apart from all the world

and see before me Him who transcends the world.
I see Him and He sees me;
I love Him and I believe that He loves me;
I am nourished and satisfied only with His vision.
United with Him I go beyond heaven.

All this I know beyond any doubt,

but where my body is I do not know.

I know that He who is immovable descends;

I know that He who is invisible appears to me;
I know that He who transcends all creation
takes me into Himself and hides me in His arms
apart from all the world;
and then I, small and mortal in this world,
I see the Creator of the world within me
and know that I can never die
because I am within all life
and all of life wells up in me.

He is in my heart, He is in heaven;
both here and there He reveals Himself to me
in equal glory.

Saint Symeon (949-1022) was a mystic from the Eastern Orthodox tradition of
Christianity.