THE VISION OF HEAVEN OF ST.THEOPHANE THE RECLUSE
Hunting for worms and instead finding an exquisite golden crucifix twenty feet high and 60 feet away with Jesus in agony on the cross, and the glory of the Lord was all around as a great Light.
All this at age seven, couldn't tell family as they would doubt that I was well put together, it had a profound effect on me however as I knew I was chosen by God and He has never been completely absent ever since although very occassionally he may have appeared to be.
St. Theophane the Recluse, former Archbishop of Tambov, had a vision of Heaven that just puts all other such visions to bed, He expresses it in one paragraphe on my page here and I urge any person who considers themselves to be on the road to Heaven to read carefully, he says, All heaven is boundless light, Closest to the Tri-Hypostatic Tri-Illuminated Deity is Our Lady the Theotokos, then the Apostles and Prophets, then the lesser luminaries, then the saints including the martyrs, ascetics, and the just men.
then the people who repented but did not have time to purify themselves, and the church in heaven prays for them and they perform acts of penance,staying in heaven sempiternally with a beginning but no end--I fell totally and utterably and unutterably in Love with Jesus Christ in 1973, my girlfriend was carrying on an affair with her psychiatrist while keeping me on a string.
How satisfyingly humiliating it is to be cuckolded, if it weren't for the sin involved, mine included, I would recomend it to anyone, The True Light of Christ streaming from the Face of Jesus Christ and the Procession of the Lord the Holy Spirit contrasted with the false light of satan and his minions, Some hints on how to tell them apart and how to test them for their veracity or lack of it
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THE HOME PAGE THE REVIEWS PAGE FIVE TEXTUAL EXCERPTS PAGES ST. THEOPHANE THE RECLUSE PUBLICATION INFORMATION SOME REASONS FOR WRITING THIS BOOK THE LEGAL PAGE THE SEARCH PAGE ANIMAL THE VISION OF HEAVEN OF ST.THEOPHANE THE RECLUSE
It happened sometime around 1953, I had a tiny, little friend Stevie, a boy who lived on Holmwood Ave. in Ottawa, (the capital of Canada). We were in his backyard digging in his family's compost heap looking for worms with which to go fishing. We were in the neighbourhood of 7 years old.
Something caught my eye! I turned and saw Jesus on an exquisitely, ornate, golden cross some 15 - 20 feet high and about 50 - 60 feet away surrounded by great yellow-white Light... Jesus radiated a great, clear, and clean compassion and my heart began to glow with warmth from the source I knew only as God.
This experience confirmed me in my belief in Jesus, and I was confirmed for sure as a believing Christian from that day onward. By the way, my friend apparently didn't know of the vision. I tried telling a few people, but I guess nobody wanted to believe a little boy. Once more, I was safe, this time from worried parents.
[This was years before the Mystical Marriage and was my first vision of Jesus, in Person, that I can remember. It was the most important highlight of the mystical life that I enjoyed during my early years in Canada. I can't remember much more about my mystical life during this period 1951-60. (My mental illness didn't start until 1962-3 in its acute form). I didn't, in this case, see a realistic cross with a realistic Jesus on it.
The cross was heavily stylized and ornate]. [Jesus was in agony. Our sins!] [I remember seeing many times, visual Grace and the Streams of Living Water with my naked eyes during the period 1951 -- 1960. Jesus just told me to tell you I saw them "thousands of times during this period." I remember lots of these times but who could remember more than a small number out of "thousands." As I remember, it was more or less daily and I thought it was natural, but I didn't tell any one because I didn't want to get "locked up." I always wondered whether anyone else saw things like me. It }{ it was awe - inspiring, spiritually edifying and beautiful}{ . I just remember the highlights.
THE VISION OF HEAVEN OF SAINT THEOPHANE THE RECLUSE---I WOULDN'T ATTEMPT OR DREAM OF PARAPHRASING OR WRITING A PRECIS OF THIS AWE-INSPIRING IMAGE OF HEAVEN THAT ST. THEOPHANE WROTE WHILE LIVING A RETIRED LIFE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME IN RUSSIA. YOU "MUST" READ IT--IT IS AT THE HEART OF ORTHODOXY AND THE TRUTH.
St. Theophane the Recluse describes the most inspiring description of heaven I have ever read ***which is in agreement with the teachings of the Prophets, the Person of Jesus Himself and the Apostles as well as the early church fathers and other lesser luminaries.*** He is no crackpot this guy. He received it as a vision from the Lord. I know nothing more about it. Here it is:
St. Theophane the Recluse (1815 - the 1890's approximately) wrote the following vision which he received from the Lord after he had retired from his position of Archbishop of Tambov.
"All Heaven is boundless light. The Tri - hypostatic, Tri - illuminated Deity is hidden by the impassible divine light which can only be mentally contemplated. But God the incarnate Word, although He shines with light of an intensity which created light never possessed, yet His light is accessible to the created eyes and is received according to the perfection of the creature who looks on Him. Our Lady, the Theotokos is nearest.
Farther away are the Apostles and the Prophets, who were God - enlightened even here on the earth. After them come the secondary depositaries of Divine Revelation. Then all the saints in their various degrees: martyrs, ascetics, just men from all states and conditions of life. All are inundated with light coming out from the face of our Lord and Saviour, a light beyond all description.
Below the saints are those who repented but had no time to purify themselves and are purified by the action of the grace of penance and of the prayer of the Church of the saints perfected and glorified in Heaven. The light here is received according to the degree of purification, from a hardly noticable twilight to the full light." (St. Theophane the Recluse, }{ Pisme k raznym licam} . . . [letters to various Persons on various Subjects of Faith and Life]
An excerpt from an email to Mrs. Spats--1997-8 approx.---Well the Divine Light is almost always white and ethereal, except when it is in the form Of the Living Waters and then it is mixed with black the contrast of bubbling along.
MY FRIENDS ILLNESS, I SAID " KEEP ME POSTED IF YOU DIE", CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LIGHT, TRUE AND FALSE LIGHT, A TRICKY BUSINESS, CONVERSATIONS WITH MRS. SPATS, MY BEAUTIFUL SIGNATURE FILE.
Back to the Light. Also it is sometimes very seldom of differing shades of yellow ranging up to a rich gold colour. I can almost always tell in calm conditions whether the (l)LIGHT is of God by just knowing but I still have to check and sometimes I am wrong which keeps me honest.
Unfortunately it can be mixed to varying degrees with the aweful false light which resembles it so closely and can be sensed to be false and will also when it speaks --tell lies-- which can lead to a human tragedy if you listen to this form of false light.
It is always debilitating to talk about the false light because it draws it like a fly in the reverse of ordinary physical light. And it is destructive--it causes great strain on my mind like now.
It is created from the father of lies and lucifer had this great FALSE light which HE USES TO TRY TO DECEIVE THE SAINTS AND I am convinced he shares with his followers I know not the ways of demons and that is to not think or talk about them unless they show first.
It can choose a person who is enlightened and pervert them IE get them "listening" to it and weave a tale of supposed revelation that is supposed from the false light's point of view to CREATE A NEW {FALSE} RELIGION.
This is in my and most Christian mystics in my and our opinion how new religions and cults get started. It is a very sad story and I am weeping now as I tell it to you.
This is the light of the non Christian mystics and it confuses everyone very much when it says something contrary to what Scripture says and I don't know about corporeal visions of a human being in the flesh --
I think I've only had a few of those--I'm drawing a blank here I remember seeing someone who was "supposed to be me at a great pillar at a temple and I can't remember although the answer is in the book how I discerned this vision. But it was visual not corporeal IE I couldn't have touched "myself in the vision--from outside the vision---IE where I was" if I tried to.
Too much talk of falseness and not enough today of truth and fidelity and right reason and my girlfriend from age 12-19? commented after I told her today: I was raving to her about what you were doing for me with the page and all, that you were "very faithful" and that she asked if {you} survived any blowups and I said yes that you had gone through several and just left me to cool off and then when I came slinking back like a rat to apologise with my tail between my legs you just said something like "Oh! I'm used to old curmugeons!!!" Then I said you "are or appear to be rock solid."
The following two paragraphs are taken from my signature file from my email program 1997-1998: Robert Lind Defries invites you to become a God as in a Son of God(See St. John of the Cross See also "The Experience of the Divine Light and Energies" "The Spiritual Journal of Robert Lind Defries," by myself.)
The infolding involving assimilation of the Spirit of God, containing ineffably the Person of Jesus Christ, into the soul, mind, heart, body, head, senses, and Spirit is Theosis or the Christification of the human person into the Image of God, the occasion of the transformation of the soul into the Likeness of God. This is divinization or the process of becoming an eternal dependant God:by "partaking of (Christ's) Holiness" (Hebrews 12:10), and by "partaking of the Divine Nature." (2nd Peter, 1:4) RLD.
Robert Lind Defries
YOU HAVE A LOT OF LOVE AND GOODNESS IN YOUR HEART AND MIND, AND SOUL ESPECIALLY, CHANGE TOPICS: ONE OF MY FORMER GIRLFRIEND'S AFFAIR WITH HER PSYCHIATRIST DUMPING ME IN THE PROCESS WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN.
AH THE JOYS OF BEING CUCKOLDED--LIKE MANY SAINTS INCLUDING ST. AUGUSTINE AND ST FRANCIS OF ASSISSI AND I THINK ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, AND OTHER PILLARS OF THE CHURCH, I WAS NO INNOCENT AT THAT TIME EITHER, UNDERGOING A VERY RADICAL CONVERSION A FEW YEARS LATER IN THE THROES OF MY INTENSE SUFFERING FOR THE SINS OF MY YOUTH.
A reflection on women and girls sent to my email friend: Dear "little" "B", In my opinion and being a bit arrogant I will go out on a limb and say you are still a girl until you have some or a child(ren). Because you still sound like a girl and when I am too hard on you {which is a reflection of my condition and not due to a desire to hurt you premeditated from a pure mind} you "sound" like a little girl which is to say that to my mother i sometimes even often sound like a little boy--perhaps at times to you too. Anyway having established that you are at times a girl IE 16-17 years of age at least I am getting to my point you are in the Lord Jesus Christ a very, very, good, good, girl. You have a lot of love and goodness inside your heart and mind and soul especially which constantly reaches out to God and seeks sojourn with him.
I am no judge of your soul because you don't talk to me at all hardly, about the state of your soul but I know your web page and your interest in things spiritual (even my book) and I know you are the property of Jesus Christ in the Father and the Fathers' Spirit.
My girlfriend said to me last time that we had talked that she had not told me about her affair with her psychiatrist that she didn't tell me because she was terrified of my mind and I still can't see how that could be but maybe you're terriffied of my mind too??? Is that true??? And believe me other than a mild normal temptation I HAVE NO DESIGNS ON YOU WHATSOEVER.
Here follows an explanation of the passage following this sentence the explanation being in brackets. MARY RADIATED ME GRACE FROM HER STATUE TO NIGHT (I can see with my diivinizied or grace filled eyes the action of Grace at times and the movement of SOME of the activities of the Holy Spirit.
A good mass for me is totally supernatural as this one was tonight) AND THE PRIEST CAME TO THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A SAINT IN THE ROOM and he was not I don't think jealous but he put on the Presence of God the Father and tested me suficiently and found out i was a saint of the Lord Jesus Christ he being a very holy Man AND IT WAS ME AT WHICH POINT HE PUT ON THE MANTLE OF GOD AND TOOK ME BY STORM AND THERE WERE SEVERAL INFERANCES CLEAR TO ALL ABOUT MY CRUCIFIXION( I take the place spiritually, (by the power of God) of the Most Blessed and Supernaturally All-Powerful Son of God) (most likely due to the suffering of my illness; being the usual result of my illness) IN SOME SIMILAR SPIRITUAL MODES PARALLEL TO JESUS LIFE -- WORDS OF ACCEPTANCE IN HEAVEN BY AND OF MY LONG LOST LOVE AND I, EACH OF THE OTHER-( I had dedicated the consecrations at the start of the mass to the two of us in heaven ) -VISITING AND ALL AT EACH OTHERS "MANSIONS" (she and I will be united in heaven at the time appointed by God in heaven) AND I WAS IDENTIFIED AS JESUS ALTHOUGH THAT IS (meant as) A DEGREE OF RELATED NESS AND A SIMILARITY TO JESUS. BUT IT'S ALL SO DISTASTFUL, UNPLEASANT, AND DIFFICULT,--PHYSICALLY PAINFUL, AND FILLED WITH THE EFFORTS OF THE HEAVY PLAYERS CONTROLLING THE ROOM SPIRITUALLY, AND DOMINATING WHICH IS TO SAY IT IS A CONTEST OF SPIRITUAL WILLS ( I am sure you have experienced this) WHEN THE PROTAOGONIST OTHER THAN YOURSELF OR MYSELF, HAS AN AGENDA THAT IS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE WILL OF THE LORD (the reader of the lessons is the sinful protagonist that i speak of here) AND WHEN THE WILL OF THE LORD IS PRESENT IT IS SWEETNESS AND LIGHT AND HARMONY AND HUMILITY AND I GET THIS MODE WITH FR "D" AND HE IS SO HUMBLE WHILE A CERTAIN PRIEST MANIPULATES AND ORCHESTRATES THE LORD THE HOLY SPIRIT INTO DRAMATICALLY ACTIVE EXPRESSIONS OF THE WILL OF GOD.
So Mrs.Spats., I admit that this is a wild passage and I can't remember much of it taking place today except the highlights---perhaps I am ill except for the last several decades I have been able at various times to see the Lord the Holy Spirit and Perhaps Jesus I am not sure now about Jesus and He (They) tell me the most incredibly true and beautiful and profound things. This is often the case that the things they tell me and the things I see them telling me in spiritual not human and divine not created Words and visions are so ineffable and so sublime that I am nearly bowled off my feet and begin to doubt my sanity for only the odd person has the ability to discern the supernatural WHICH IS ALL AROUND US. "I BELIEVE IN WHAT IS SEEN AND UNSEEN"(THE NICENE CREED) Mrs. Spats, I SEE WHAT IS UNSEEN AND I HEAR IN THE SOUNDS OF THE WORLD, THE VOICE OF GOD FOR ME AND OTHERS IN THE LOCAL OR HEAVENLY SENSE. I guess God came and answered my prayers and yours and My friends and Spiritual Directors for this was an experience so wonderful so magnificent and so rewarding that I will remember it for a long time and hopefully many others will have comparable graces and blessings as well. Well Mrs. Spats. I've shot my bolt my finger is hurting and I will go hopefully you will understand better what happened last night today from this version. Yours sincerely, Robert Defries PS. I'm not sick -- exalted yes and restored at least for a time yes. But sick--no. PPS This went to my friend M.F. too. I have to bash him on the head with the supernatural to get him to open his mind which he will probably refuse to do at this expression of holiness.
A note to a dissident to the following argument: Dear Sir, are you made of something other than DNA. Did your parent's characteristics mutate completely so you bear no ressemblance to them even bio-chemically--by the way there is a biochemical term parthenogenesis that describes how a creature can produce an offspring without the participation of a created mate, the two strings of dna joining to produce in Mary the Mother of God's case the genetic material that formed Jesus' delectable Body His Divinity came from Heaven from the Lord the Holy Spirit who so entered the sanctified womb of the Blessed Mother while the Lord God, the Father of Jesus was the initiator of this Ultimate Sublime Act and "Overshadowed " the event, singular of its type in world history.
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