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August 28, 2009

Moltmann on the Mystical Experience of the Sabbath

"I discovered something else as well: Teresa [of Avila]'s interior castle and Thomas Merton's mountain and many other descriptions of mystical journeys use the number seven: on the seventh level the soul finds its way to God, and it is in the seventh chamber of the soul that the mystical marriage takes place. This is nothing other than Israel's teaching about the Sabbath. The person who keeps the Sabbath, and who on the Sabbath experiences the union of the Shekinah with the Eternal One, is already at the place which the Christian mystics strive to attain through meditation and contemplation" (Moltmann, A Broad Place, 214).

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great reading your blog. i grew up adventist, and didn't know that people were discussing the issues and thinkin' about what is being discussed on your blog... please continue to share your thoughts and ministry..

Posted by: mozart guerrier | August 30, 2009 at 03:05 AM

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