“He who aspires to divine realities willingly allows providence to lead him by principle of wisdom toward the grace of deification. He who does not so aspire is drawn, by the just judgement of God and against his will, away from evil by various forms of discipline. The first, as a lover of God, is deified by providence; the second, although a lover of matter, is held back from perdition by God's judgement. For since God is goodness itself, he heals those who desire it through the principles of wisdom, and through various forms of discipline cures those who are sluggish in virtue.” LoveVirtueSalvationRedemptionAtonementDeificationTheosis Author:St. Maximos the Confessor
“But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessary become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.” Beatific VisionDivinizationTheosis Book:The Consolation of Philosophy Source: The Consolation of Philosophy
“And of all illumination of which humanity can partake, none is comparable to the discovery of the potential divinity of the human being, the awareness that the human being is a god-in-the making.” IlluminationDivinizationTheosisThe Meaning Of Being Illuminati Book:The Meaning of Being Illuminati Source: The Meaning of Being Illuminati