Once Seen, Never Forgotten
Thomas Traherne was an English seer and poet who noted in his Meditations (3/60) …
“This spectacle once seen, will never be forgotten. It is a great part of the beatific vision. A sight of Happiness is Happiness. It transforms the Soul and makes it Heavenly, it powerfully calls us to communion with God, and weans us from the customs of this world… I no sooner discerned this but I was seated in a throne of repose and perfect rest. All things were well in their proper places, I alone was out of frame and had need to be mended… For all things were God’s treasures in their proper places, and I was to be restored to God’s Image. Whereupon you will not believe, how I was withdrawn from all endeavours of altering and mending outward things. They lay so well, methought, they could not be mended: but I must be mended to enjoy them.”
