“No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known”, says the Gospel of John (1:18). Indeed, no one has seen God. The visions of the great enlightened personages in the history of religion still remain visions from afar, “in shadows and images”. Only God knows himself completely. Only God sees God. And therefore only someone who is God can really bring tidings about him and put the contradictory visions together into a whole—even though, of course, what is said in human words can only reflect from a distance the splendor of the incomprehensible
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