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Presently he had come to the end of the first volume, the only one he had with him, and he raised his eyes from the closing page with that exquisite exaltation, that beatific satisfaction of mind and spirit, even almost one might say of body, which for the lover of literature nothing in the world like a fine passage can bring.
It takes the place of prayer and communion with the deity and the Buddha promises the beatific vision in this life to those who persevere. The negative features of the Path are also important. It contains no mention of ceremonial, austerities, gods, many or one, nor of the Buddha himself. He is the discoverer and teacher of the truth; beyond that his personality plays no part.
But we may say that, as a pure and mutual love produces the greatest happiness we know of in this world, so also the mutual love which exists between the soul and God in the Beatific Vision, is the source of the most perfect happiness possible. But there is another feature of that unspeakable happiness, which we must now consider.
And the public sighed and gasped and shook its head, and was comfortably shocked and satisfyingly scandalized. The sheriff brought the prisoner into court that morning with free hands. Joe's face seemed almost beatific in its exalted serenity as he saluted his waiting mother with a smile.
We found that all our possessions fitted very easily into the two canoes, and we divided our personnel, six in each, taking the obvious precaution in the interests of peace of putting one Professor into each canoe. Personally, I was with Challenger, who was in a beatific humor, moving about as one in a silent ecstasy and beaming benevolence from every feature.
'I believe, said the canon, in a manner distinctly beatific towards the subject of his remarks, 'that I enjoy that little race-meeting at Sedgwick as much as anything in the year. We must all have our little outings once in a way. There is no doubt that the canon took his little outings, as often as he could get them, with a healthy, boyish pleasure.
Yes, the day will come blessed and glorious day! when all that perversity of will, all that inclination to evil, and all the passions of our depraved nature will be no more! All these will die in our temporal death, and be buried never to rise again in our glorified bodies. The Beatific Vision will glorify our will, and change us, as it were, into new creatures.
Your religion is the sort we've got to grow into, and, even then, some of us aren't ever quite big enough to realize it." Judith's face had been undergoing swift changes during this short speech, but now it cleared and a beatific expression shone upon it. "I know what you mean, now, Miss Pat," she declared loftily.
Nowadays religion is considered to have gloriously accomplished its object when it has made the Saint; then, it was to the Saints that it devoted its highest energies, and, taking the pure in heart, it led them to the Beatific Vision.
It teaches, first, that the resurrection is not a mere accidental glory, which may or may not be given to the just, but that it is an essential element of man's happiness.* The soul of Abraham, for instance, that is now united to God in the Beatific Vision, is not, properly speaking, Abraham himself, but only a part of him.
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