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Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 46: A good teaching how a man shall flee these deceits, and work more with a listiness of spirit, than with any boisterousness of body (2)
This is childishly and playingly spoken, thee think peradventure. But I trow whoso had grace to do and feel as I say, he should feel good gamesome play with Him, as the father doth with the child, kissing and clipping, that well were him so.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (50)
In this the Deity has its highest delight, as parents have in their children, that its dear and beloved children in heaven behave themselves so well...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (51)
That light should rise very gently or mildly in the Heart of God, and rejoice in the light of God, as a child with its mother; and so there should be...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (73)
Now this tone or tune is the divine joyfulness, the triumphing, wherein the divine and meek loveplay, sport or scene in God riseth up, as also the...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (99)
Thou may also understand it thus, in a similitude, as when seven persons had begun a friendly sport and play, where one gets the upper hand above...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (98)
Like two creatures which in great love play together, embracing, struggling and wrestling the one with the other; now one is above, by and by the...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (49)
To this end God the Father has created the angels, that as he is manifold and various in his qualities, and in his alteration or variegation is...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (98)
For the angels play before and in God, as little children play before their parents, whereby the divine joy is increased.