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To: Mrs. Don-o

Interesting. First I’ve heard of it. I’ve noticed when saints achieve a certain level of mystical development their terminology gets difficult to understand or even a little out there.

I’ll have to think about this. Maybe St. MK is referring to the nature of God’s uncreated purity?


10 posted on 08/14/2007 1:14:34 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah (Catholic4Mitt)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Canticle_of_Deborah
I found something on Catholic Culture:

"Additionally, he calls the Holy Spirit the Uncreated, Eternal Immaculate Conception, who is "conceived" from the love that flows eternally between the Father and the Son; a love so perfect that it is personified. Kolbe explains:

Everything that exists, outside of God himself, since it is from God and depends upon him in every way, bears within itself some semblance to its Creator . . . because every created thing is an effect of the Primal Cause.

It is true that the words we use to speak of created realities express the divine perfections only in a halting, limited and analogical manner. They are only a more or less distant echo — as are created realities that they signify — of the properties of God himself.

Would not "conception" be an exception to this rule? No, there is never any exception . . .

And who is the Holy Spirit? The flowering of the love of the Father and the Son. If the fruit of created love is a created conception, then the fruit of divine Love, that prototype of all created love, is necessarily a divine "conception." The Holy Spirit is, therefore, the "uncreated, eternal conception," the prototype of all the conceptions that multiply life throughout the whole universe.

. . ."

There's rather a long piece at the site!

11 posted on 08/14/2007 1:45:49 PM PDT by maryz
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