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Gregory of Nyssa - Treatise on Virginity
Identifier
007719
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
I'm guessing as to how the experience came about, ecstasy seems the more likely, it wasn't a vision.
A description of the experience
Library of Nicene and Post Nicene fathers [Oxford 1893]
Gregory of Nyssa - Treatise on Virginity
I venture to affirm that, to one who has cleansed all the powers of his being from every form of vice, the Beauty which is essential, the source of every beauty and every good, will become visible to the soul, by virtue of her innocence, there comes the power of taking in that Light. . . .