Dr. Antony Theodore Mystical Poems

Human intellect alone
is inadequate to reach
the pedestals of wisdom itself.
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Faith in God is higher and perfect
than all knowledge.
Mystical experience becomes
valuable only in the
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There exists a common beat
between all hearts.
It is the one voiceless mystical song
our hearts want to sing.
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The mystical union
is affected by God himself.
One can only clear
the way of obstacles
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Reading the teachings
of the Fathers,
holy scriptures
of the world religions,
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Poets intuitively recognize
the suggestive qualities
of the symbols
and their links with truth.
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We should
ask the essential
question "Who am I? "
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God and the soul becomes
one single here,
one single now.
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The effect of sacred
and devotional music
or amystical poem
is like that of a pebble
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The ultimate desire
for love which is
the greatest desire
of all real lovers
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All those who follow Christ
symbolically ‘put on'
Christ at their baptism.
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Every love is a mystical experience.

Love wants to go further.
It does not just want
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Symbols in poetry are a means
of simple communication.
It achieves a higher purpose.
It deepens our awareness.
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The mixed metaphors
and contradictory
expressions one
finds in mystical
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The image of God
is potentially
complete and whole
in every individual soul.
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A christian mystic‘s theology
and anthropology
are synthesized in his
incarnational Christology.
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God - and the unity
of God with the soul
is so complete as to seem
incredible, since He is so
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Does the mystical experience
admit of any doubt?

The answer is yes and no.
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Mystical thinking is not counter
to the Aristotelian logic of Thomism.
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