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“By his gracious condescension, God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization.”

“Through the abundant grace of the Spirit it will be shown that God alone is at work, and in all things there will be only one activity, that of God and of those worthy of kinship with God. God will be all in all wholly penetrating all who are his in a way that is appropriate to each…

when God's ineffable majesty is made known, all intellectual and sensible things will be encompassed by him.”

The transition from reading St. Maximus as a wandering low churchman to a high churchman radically changes one’s study. He is a master of the cosmos and sacramentalism.