REVELATION 3:12 12 "The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name." Has anyone ever stopped to think about the meaning of this biblical passage, Christ presenting a new name at the time of his coming, would have some explanation of this coming from the Saints of our Church?.
If you are interested you should read Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity on this. She held , quoting Scripture that all of us have a name that is descriptive of our role in the Divine Scheme of things. The Lord showed her that her own name is, 'In Praise of His Glory' .. So that is St Elizabeth's role in Eternity, to praise God's Glory. Each of us have such a name, written in heaven. This kind of reminds me of the practise of North American Indians who used to send their young folk out into the wild for a period to find their, 'True Name'. Revelation 2:17 gHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; gTo him that overcometh will I give to eat of vthe hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone wa new name written, xwhich no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Revelation 3:12 uHim that overcometh will I make va pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him wthe name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is xnew Jerusalem, ywhich cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him zmy new name. Isaiah 62:2 bthe Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, And call kings thy glory: And thou shalt be called by da new name, Which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Isaiah 65:15 afor a curse unto bmy chosen: For the Lord God shall slay thee, And ccall his servants by danother name:
This True Name ties into what we know of the Nine Choirs of Angels. That when we die we will be placed in one of the Nine Choirs, replacing a Fallen Demon whose place we will take in Heaven. Our True Name will be indicative of our function in that Choir. “What is the Glory of God?” – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity | SOUL FOOD MINISTRIES (wordpress.com) “What is the Glory of God?” – St. Elizabeth of the Trinity January 17, 2018January 18, 2018 / Kathy Andre-Eames During a spiritual conversation with another Carmelite nun one day, St. Elizabeth was struck by a scripture of St. Paul which the older nun shared with her: “praise of glory.” The phrase occurs three times in succession in Ephesians 1: Verse 5-6: “In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the Beloved.” Ephesians 11-12 : “In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory….” Ephesians 3:13-14 – “In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit, which is the first installment of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his glory.” Elizabeth was enthralled to discover her purpose, her vocation, her very name: “Laudem Gloriae,” Praise of Glory. Years ago, as a young novice in my 20’s, I was equally enthralled. But what is this glory? I exist to praise His Glory, so what is the glory of God? This, Father M. M. Philipon, O. P. explains in his book: THE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF SISTER ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY. [He wrote the book long before her canonization.] This excerpt from his book is so beautiful I will quote it in its entirety [bold emphases are mine]: 1. What is the glory of God? The radiant manifestation of what He is, the revelation of His infinite perfections. 2. There are two kinds of glory in God: His personal glory within Himself, and His external glory in the universe He has created. There is no question here of His essential glory, that glory which God finds in Himself, in His Word, in the unique eternal Thought which adequately expresses all that He is in the indivisible Unity of His Essence and the Trinity of the Persons. The Word expresses everything: the inexhaustible fecundity of the bosom of the Father, the beauty of the son, the Love that perfects Them in Unity, the universe which has come into being by their creative might and which remains in the hands of God like a plaything. Thus the Father manifests His own glory to the Son. The Father shines out in the Word, the image and splendor of His glory; the Word manifests to the Father all that He is in Himself. In Him, the Father and the Son know the Eternal Love that unites them. Such is the essential glory of God, that personal intra-Trinitarian glory which is the Word. 3. The universe adds nothing to this infinite glory, and before the Holy Trinity even the very soul of Christ must acknowledge its nothingness. In the three-fold society of the divine Persons and the indivisible unity of their Essence, God is sufficient to Himself. All that can come to Him from without, even from Christ, is only accidental. And yet, notwithstanding, God claims it absolutely, because the hierarchy of values and the order of creation so requires. To the Creator belong honor, wisdom, power, and glory. 4. …[Elizabeth] understood perfectly that she was bound to become a saint in the first place for God; and to become as great a saint as possible because His glory was closely linked with her sanctity….She understood that the higher a soul is raised on the summits of transforming union, the better it will fulfill its office of ‘Praise of Glory.’ God is glorified in the measure in which ‘the beauty’ of His perfections is reflected in souls… 5. The glorified souls, those who contemplate God in the simplicity of His Essence, have attained to this supreme transformation. ‘Then I shall know even as I am known,’ says St. Paul, meaning by intuitive vision….That is why…they are ‘transformed into the same image from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord.’ Then they are a ceaseless praise of glory to the divine Being Who contemplates his own splendor in them… ‘God created man to His own image.’ 6. Such was the plan of the Creator, that He might view Himself in His creature, and might see His own perfections and beauty reflected through him as through a pure and flawless crystal. Is that not a kind of extension of His own glory? 7. The soul…that allows the Divinity to reflect Himself in it…such a soul is truly the ‘Praise of Glory’ of all His gifts. Whatever happens, and during the most commonplace employments, it sings the canticum magnum [great canticle], the canticum novum [new canticle], and this canticle thrills God to His very depths.’ [pp. 90-91] No false humility in St. Elizabeth. She determined to be a saint, and a great one, because nothing else would suffice to praise the essential glory of God. Several years ago I wrote another reflection, “A Plan to Praise His Glory.” In an emotional, ecstatic hour of Adoration, three years before I even read Fr. Philipon’s book, God gave me the grace to glimpse briefly what Fr. Philipon explains as the essential glory of God: “We tend to see the Glory of God as a static thing, brilliant Light, radiance, etc. such as Peter, James, and John saw to envelop Christ during the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor. Yet we should realize that His Glory is intensely alive with Divine Energy, ecstatic and personal, throbbing with incomprehensible Love, deeply shared, pouring out from Divine Person to Divine Person eternally. His Glory is Delight, enthralling, enrapturing.” Rather than using Fr. Philipon’s words, “essential,” and “accidental”, I explained then that “Glory is not extrinsic to God, but intrinsic—essentially His from all eternity. We cannot give Glory to God; He IS Glory. When we say, “Glorify God” or “Give glory to God” we are talking about the praise of His Glory, giving Him what is extrinsic to Him, incidental, nonessential. If we are pure and acceptable to Him in Christ, it is as though we are holding up a spotless mirror to reflect His Glory–we don’t increase it, but merely reflect it.”
My own belief is that the Demon who is our Principle Tempter and Tester through life is the Demon whose place we will, hopefully, take in heaven. The Guardian Angel, on the other hand is the angel who will be closest to us in heaven, the one who is most like us. Who will stand right beside us in heaven for all Eternity. From the same Choir of Angels to which we destined.
Great post. Our priest has mentioned a couple of times that we will receive a new name. This explains it.
An online retreat that Josephite and I participated in some years ago: http://www.discerninghearts.com/cat...zabeth-of-the-trinity-with-dr-anthony-lilles/ St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, pray for us!
