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    Ursprung: Intuitions from God-knows-where
    Ursprung: Intuitions from God-knows-where
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    Ursprung: Intuitions from God-knows-where

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    If brain-storming is an exercise in mental imagination, Ursprung is an example of soul-storming. Unlike brainstorming, the aphorisms that comprise Ursprung arise from a Source (Ursprung) more ‘beyond and above’ the ideas that brainstorming produces. This book is a collection of such inspirations, originally unconnected but gradually formed into sections and chapters which I hope exhibit a natural, organic affinity.

    I wrote Ursprung more as an act of obedience than originality. This book offers a vision of deification, springing from contemplative prayer, that I believe both the church and the world need. The reader can be the judge.
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    Release dateJun 20, 2024
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    Ursprung: Intuitions from God-knows-where
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    Philip Krill

    PHILIP KRILL is a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO.

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      Ursprung - Philip Krill

      © 2024 PHILIP KRILL. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or

      transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse  06/20/2024

      ISBN: 979-8-8230-2831-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 979-8-8230-2832-5 (e)

      Editorial Assistance: Jessica Livengood

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in

      this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views

      expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the

      views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      For

      Barbara Ann Krill

      September 15, 1951 - June 6, 1952

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      The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.

      John 3:8

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Part 1   Trinitas

      Archē

      Logos

      Sophia

      Part 2   Humanitas

      Hamartia

      Theosis

      Le Point Vierge

      Part 3   Eschata

      Gelassenheit

      Apokatastasis

      Plērōma

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      INTRODUCTION

      Both the inspiration and title for this book appeared unbidden last summer (2023) on a bright, balmy morning in Interlaken, Switzerland. It was as if God were saying to me: ‘You needn’t have traveled to the Alps to find the beauty you seek; look, rather, into your heart’. All of what is written here comes from that epiphanic Unsprung of intuition.

      If brain-storming is an exercise in mental imagination, Ursprung is an example of soul-storming. Unlike brainstorming, the aphorisms that comprise Ursprung arise from a Source (Ursprung) more ‘beyond and above’ the ideas that brainstorming produces. This book is a collection of such inspirations, originally unconnected but gradually formed into sections and chapters which I hope exhibit a natural, organic affinity. I wrote Ursprung more as an act of obedience than originality. This book offers a vision of deification, springing from contemplative prayer, that I believe both the church and the world needs. The reader can be the judge.

      I dedicate this book to my sister, Barbara Ann Krill. Barbara lived but 9 months, yet has ever since been my intercessor before the throne of God. In some measure, I do what I do and write what I write because of her vigilant love and prayers.

      6 June 2024

      Feast of (my) St. Barbara

      Ursprung (German) - Source, Origin

      PART ONE

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      TRINITAS

      Archē

      God’s apparent absence from the world is God’s way of being present to the world. God is a Divine Mystery of ever-receding yet ever-present Uncreated Light and Love.

      God is that with which the eye sees and the ear hears. As Meister Eckhart says, ‘The eye (‘I’) with which I see God is the same eye (‘I’) with which God sees me’.¹

      The Light of God transcends the human intellect. The light of our understanding is made possible by, but is altogether ‘other’ than, the Uncreated Light of God.

      ‘In God’s light we see light’ (cf. Ps. 36:9). God’s uncreated Act of Being (Actus Purus) ‘precedes’, and makes possible, all created forms of creation. Grasping this ‘real distinction’² is itself a divine intuition coming from God-knows-where.

      A ‘golden thread of analogy’ saves us from ‘the contagion of equivocity’³ when speaking of God. Because of the Incarnation, all that can be predicated of human beings can also be predicated of God, albeit in a pre-eminent way.

      God is ‘ever-greater’ than anything that can be accurately said of God.⁴ Anagogy saves analogy from being equivocity. Analogy saves anagogy from disappearing into an apophatic abyss.

      Those who abide in the ‘analogical interval’ made possible by an anagogical vision of the Incarnation are filled with continuous gratitude. They experience a delight and a joy the world cannot give.

      God’s is a why-less Love.⁵ God does as God is. Creation ex nihilo is creation ex Deo - a cosmic, finite extension of God’s own Life as that which is not God.

      Nothing that is not of God. In God, all things live and move and have their being (cf. Acts 17:28).

      ‘Being loved’ and ‘existing’ are the same thing in God. Once ‘God’ is apprehended as Actus Purus (Pure Act), we intuit our own naturally divine humanity.

      God is no-thing of which we can conceive. God is the ineffable, inexhaustible, unimaginable Pure Act (Actus Purus) of Divine Love in which all things receive their ‘is-ing-ness’.

      ‘God’ is an ineffable Actus Purus of luminous Darkness from which Uncreated Light eternally proceeds. ‘God’ is the incomprehensible Mystery of unknowable Nothingness, creating, sustaining, and superseding all that is made.

      In the heart of the Trinity, the distinction between ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’ disappears. If we have the eyes to see, creatureliness itself is an extension of, and participation in, God as Actus Purus.

      Because God is as a trinitarian Mystery of pure Love, it is somehow ‘natural’ - almost ‘necessary’ - for God to pour Himself out in the act of creation. Must there not be a sense in which, because of how God is within Himself that God cannot not create?

      Imagining ‘grace’ as something added to ‘nature’ for its sanctification is like giving a fish a glass a water to satisfy its thirst.

      There is no such thing as ‘pure nature’ existing prior to the gift of ‘grace’. All ‘two-tiered schemes’ of nature and grace are ontologically nonsensical, given the unconditionally gracious self-expression of God as Actus Purus.

      Creation is intrinsically hard-wired to God. Creation is ‘graced’ ‘all-the-way down’.

      God is sophianically present in all that God has made.

      There is nothing in us that is not of God. Our existence is a participation in God as the great I AM (cf. Ex. 3:14).

      Creation ex nihilo stands as a perpetually sustained miracle of Divine Love. Creation is the finite expression of God as Actus Purus.

      Creation is not an afterthought of God. God did not ‘decide’ to create. He cannot not create because he is the Creator.

      God does as God is, and God is as God does. Freedom and necessity are lovingly one in God.

      Finite existence is frozen grace. The world, as we know it, is solid love. Matter and energy are interchangeable extensions of God’s unconditioned beneficence.

      Grace is to nature as God is to creation. This relation is so infinitely asymmetrical as to require a grammar we do not possess.⁶

      ‘Grace’ is not a ‘substance’ given by God as our commodity Grace is God’s self-communication wherein God gives himself for the divinization of all God has made.

      God is to the world as negative space is to art. God is the ever-receding, un-thematic Background of all possible created foregrounds.

      The world’s ‘otherness’ from God is itself a sacrament of God’s intra-trinitarian self-divestment, and an affirmation of the world’s intrinsic goodness.

      Our creation unto deification is reason God extends himself beyond himself without the loss of himself. We are conceived in, from, and for God in Christ (cf. Col. 1:16).

      We are not simply beneficiaries of God’s love; we are finite begettings of God’s Love. We are begotten by God for participative union with God (cf. 1 Jn. 5:18).

      Creation is ‘other’ from God in a manner analogous to the way in which Father, Son and Spirit are ‘other’ from each other. Just as the Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father, so is God in the world and the world is in God without either confusion or conflation.

      The world is in God (cf. Acts 17:28) and God is in the world, yet the world is not God and God is not the world. This is because the ‘communion and otherness’⁷ which characterizes the life of the Trinity is the template (tropos)⁸ for the relation of creation to its Creator.

      God’s ‘real distinction’⁹ from the world is identical with God’s logical relation with the world. This is the contemplative depth of the axiom that ‘the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity’.¹⁰

      We are because God is. Until we grasp the radical distinction between the miracle of existence (‘that anything is’) and essence

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