God is not merely good, but goodness

[soso]

The good is uncreated;

it never could have been otherwise;

it has no shadow of contingency;

it lies, as Plato said, on the other side of existence.

It is the Rita of the Hindus by which the gods themselves are divine,

the Tao of the Chinese from which all realities proceed.

But we, favoured beyond the wisest pagans, know () [what lies beyond existence], [what admits no contingency],

[what lends divinity to all else], [what is the ground of all existence], is not simply a law

but also a begetting love, a love /begotten,

and the love //which, being between these two, is also imminent in all those //who are caught up

/to share the unity of their self-cause life.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

From Christian Reflections
Compiled in A Mind Awake