The Communication of the Three Persons

IN the Love from Both proceeding
It hath limits none.
Words of gladness spoke the Father
To His only Son.

Words they were of joy profoundest,
Understood of none,
But of Him exulting in them,
Whose they were — the Son.
Of these words of gladness, only
This was heard by me —
Nought, my Son, can give Me pleasure
When I have not Thee.

But if aught should give Me pleasure,
That I seek in Thee,
He who gives to Thee most pleasure
Gives it most to Me.

He who Thee in nought resembleth
Cannot be like Me.
Life of Life, My whole rejoicing
Is alone in Thee.

Thou art My Eternal Wisdom,
Thou, Light of My light;
In Thee, Figure of My substance,
Is my whole delight.

Thee, My Son, he who loveth
Shall have love of Me
And the love wherewith I love him
Is My love of Thee.
So great, then, is My love of Thee, that he
Who loveth Thee shall be also loved by Me.