Angela Of Foligno Writes About Her Vision

In a wonderful passage, unique in the literature of mysticism, Angela of Foligno has reported the lucid vision in which she perceived this truth: the two fold apprehension of an Absolute at Once humble and omnipotent, personal and transcendent. She writes: "The eyes of my soul were opened, and I beheld the plenitude of God, whereby I did comprehend the whole world, both here and beyond the sea, and the Abyss and all things else; and therein did I behold naught save the divine power in a manner assuredly indescribable, so that through excess of marvelling the soul cried with a loud voice, saying 'This whole world is full of God'!