Angela Of Foligno Writes About Her Vision Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

In a wonderful passage,
unique in the literature
of mysticism, Angela of Foligno
has reported the lucid vision
in which she perceived this truth:
the two fold apprehension
of an Absolute at Once
humble and omnipotent,
personal and transcendent.

She writes: "The eyes of my soul were opened, and I beheld the plenitude of God, whereby I did comprehend the whole world, both here and beyond the sea, and the Abyss and all things else; and therein did I behold naught save the divine power in a manner assuredly indescribable, so that through excess of marvelling the soul cried with a loud voice, saying 'This whole world is full of God'!