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A narrator records an elderly priest's accounts of a heightened spiritual perception that renders the unseen as vividly visible. Beginning with childhood intimations and proceeding through episodic visions, the priest describes moments when the natural and supernatural appear simultaneously, and he reflects on focus, discernment, and obedience to revealed doctrine. The narrative interweaves vivid sensory scenes, liturgical settings, and moral dilemmas, showing how grace, suffering, and temptation shape interior life. Throughout, contemplative commentary examines the limits of personal experience, the role of ascetic practice, and the tension between private insight and communal theology.

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Title: The Light Invisible

Author: Robert Hugh Benson

Release date: December 8, 2018 [eBook #58433]

Language: English

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The Light Invisible


She moves in tumult: round her lies
The silence of the world of grace;
The twilight of our mysteries
Shines like high noon-day on her face,
Our piteous guesses, dim with fears,
She touches, handles, sees, and hears.

A willing sacrifice, she takes
The burden of our Fall within;
Holy she stands; while on her breaks
The lightning of the wrath of sin:
She drinks her Saviour’s Cup of pain,
And, one with Jesus, thirsts again.
The Contemplative Soul

 

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The
Light Invisible
By
Robert Hugh Benson
Author of
“The King’s Achievement,” “By What Authority?”
“The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary,”
“A Book of the Love of Jesus,” etc.
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago
BENZIGER BROTHERS
PRINTERS TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE
1910