The Divine Communion: Transcending Earthly Pleasures

In our days, the notion of ultimate joy often goes beyond the usual sensory pleasure. True enjoyment, experienced by those on the path of union with the Divine, unfolds through direct communion with the source of supernatural grace. This feeling is not confined to the fleeting emotions of earthly existence – it is filled with soulful depth and immeasurable transformation, as if one were partaking in divine nature.

The core idea of this experience is that people who have attained union with God undergo a joy that surpasses all earthly conceptions of pleasure. It is not merely a pleasant sensation, but a genuine spiritual metamorphosis through which an individual comes to perceive his state as something higher – almost divine in essence. Such an experience opens before the participants a completely new realm of existence, where feelings become not the result of sensory pleasures but the fruit of a deep union with the Source from which all that is beautiful and good originates.

The concluding note of this idea emphasizes that the true enjoyment bestowed by spiritual awakening cannot be interpreted as sinful or possessing a seductive superficiality. On the contrary, it attests to the attainment of the highest goal of human life – a transition into a state where every minute is imbued with divine life and joy, capable of transforming and elevating a person to a heavenly level of being.

What could be the source of that super pleasure experienced by the divine-like individuals, and can it be considered a sin?

The answer is based on the fact that the “super pleasure” experienced by those resembling gods is conditioned by their participation in divine life and direct communion with the Source of all supernatural grace. According to the source in file link txt, these individuals become “as it were, gods in status,” obtaining genuine, joyful, heartfelt pleasure that arises from being in the presence of something that surpasses all earthly understanding. This is not merely sensory enjoyment, but a profound state of joy bestowed by supernatural blessings from the One, signifying the transition of mankind into another, exalted realm of existence.

Thus, such pleasure is not regarded as a sin, but as the result and manifestation of union with the Divine, fundamentally different from ordinary sensual or sinful pleasures. It bears witness to spiritual transformation and the approach toward the highest goal of human life.

Supporting citation(s):

“For then those who have come to possess that which is above mind, and having become partakers in that life and pleasure beyond all thought, become as it were gods in status, enjoying and rejoicing before the One who is, by nature, God, with supernatural blessings emanating from the Highest and the One God, standing around Him and holiest performing a divine and beyond-mind festival with perhaps the greatest purity and constituting a very joyful heartfelt delight with this blessed revelry and celebration with all the wise ranks of Angels.” (source: link txt)

“This is some great and unthinkable flow of pure exaltation from the highly beautiful. For if the beauty accessible to the senses, when perceived by the mind through the sensory organs, although limited and ephemeral, is not simple and uncreated, still generally does not deliver unpleasant enjoyment to the soul, then for those who have intellect and reason it is not hard to notice and understand what they may become, reaching a mental pleasure that is beyond the mind – unlimited and not fleeting, uncreated and having no beginning, but flows from God, from whom all that is beautiful and good originates, and moreover for joy and exaltation and divine life, worthy of that [future] era and order.” (source: link txt)

Thus, the super pleasure of the divine-like individuals originates from their spiritual union with God and, far from being a sinful temptation, represents the highest form of a divine state that transforms and elevates the human being.