What is this eternal coming of our Bridegroom? It is a new birth and a
new illumination which are without interruption; for the source from
which the brightness streams, and which is itself the brightness, is
living and fertile; and so the manifestation of the eternal light is
renewed without interruption, in the secret depths of the spirit....
And the coming of the Bridegroom is so swift that He is always coming,
and that He dwells within us with His unfathomable riches, and that He
returns ever anew in person, with such new brightness that it seems as
if He had never come before. For His coming is comprised beyond all
limit of time, in an eternal _Now_; and He is ever received with new
desires and a new delight. Behold, the joys and the pleasures which
this Bridegroom brings with Him at His coming are boundless and without
limit, for they are Himself. And this is why the eyes of the spirit, by
which the loving soul beholds its Bridegroom, are opened so wide that
they will never shut again. For the contemplation and the fixed gaze
of the spirit are eternal in the secret manifestation of God. And the
comprehension of the spirit is so widely opened, as it waits for the
appearance of the Bridegroom, that the spirit itself becomes vast as
that which it comprehends. And so is God beheld and understood by God,
in whom all our blessedness is found.