We are to learn that blessedness does not lie in knowing something about God, but rather in possessing God within oneself. If by a diligent life of virtue you wash away the film of dirt that covers your heart, then the divine beauty will shine forth in you. Once you remove from your soul the coating of filth that has formed on it through your sinful neglect, you will regain your likeness to your Archetype, and be good. This is the blessedness of the pure of heart: in seeing their own purity they see the divine Archetype mirrored in themselves. For God is purity; he is free from sin and a stranger to all evil. If this can be said of you, then God will surely be within you. When the mists of sin no longer cloud the eye of your soul, you see that blessed vision clearly in the peace and purity of your own heart. That vision is nothing else than the holiness, the purity, the simplicity and all the other glorious reflections of God’s nature, through which God himself is seen.
–Gregory of Nyssa, Oration 6.44
🙂 Here you go again–answering my questions! 😉 This is good also. Yes, and the reflection of God in my/our heart is only possible because I arrive there through the mediation of Jesus Christ who accomplished the act which saves me. Thanks.