🌌 The Epektasis of Infinite Receptivity
🌌 The Epektasis of Infinite Receptivity The Ever-Expanding Vessel, the Ever-Awakening Eye, and the Eternal Enlargement of the Soul in God God does not diminish His Ocean to fit the cup. He enlarges the cup forever. God does not extinguish His Radiance so that the creature may see. He eternally strengthens the creature’s eyes. ✦ Introduction: The Infinite Cannot Be Exhausted—Only Received More Deeply What would eternal life with an Infinite God actually mean? Would it mean arriving at a final spiritual destination and remaining there forever? Would it mean reaching the summit of God, completing the knowledge of God, exhausting the beauty of God, and entering a state in which nothing fundamentally new could ever be revealed? Would heaven eventually become a perfect but motionless room? Would the blessed finally possess God so completely that discovery ended? The ancient Christian idea of epektasis offers a radically different vision. Epektasis is eternal moveme...