According to our desires.
We penetrate and immerse ourselves in God’s essence to the extent that our desires are comprehensive and fierce. So teaches St. Thomas Aquinas. Those who will have greater glory in heaven and more robust and intense desires for God on earth. The arrow that flies out of a more strongly drawn bow has incredible speed and penetrates more deeply into the target. Also, the believing soul penetrates more deeply into the nature of God, and the more deeply it has a greater desire for God.
Manna says Francis of Sales everyone ate but liked it differently, depending on their taste. But it was enjoyed thoroughly, partially, because it had many different flavors. In heaven, we shall see and taste the whole Godhead, but neither the blessed nor all together will see and taste the Godhead completely. The immensity of God will always have infinitely more beauties for us to see and taste them all. Even if we satisfy and satiate all the desires of our heart, even if we fill it to the brim with the highest good, even then, there will remain much that we will not see, that we will not experience. Even the fish enjoy the unheard-of greatness of the Ocean, yet not one has seen all the shores or been in all the waters. Birds, too, fly at will and enjoy the breadth of the air, but they have yet to make it everywhere. Even our spirit will take its flight at will according to the whole span of its flight in the divine sphere. We shall enjoy these divine abysses without measure or limitation. O God, what is admirable is what the blissful souls see. But how much more admirable is what they do not see? And yet what they gaze upon satiates and satisfies them perfectly. St. Teresa of Jesus explains how there is fullness of blessedness in every chosen one, even in the face of inequality of rewards. One day, I expressed to my sister my astonishment that God had not given equal glory to all the elect. That is why all will not be blessed. Then my sister sent me Father’s large cup, set it beside my smaller cup, and filled both to the brim with water. She asked me which was fuller. I told her they were both equally full. Sister then instructed me that in heaven, the last of the elect will not envy the happiness of the first.
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