"Exinanitio" KENOSIS
If Jesus had earned any title to divinity, one should not omit from consideration an outpouring so total that noting was left of the merely human. In the naughting of the human, all that remained was the burning flame of divinity. It was the moment when the divinity absorbed all that was left of his humanity to preserve it and unite it forever to his Person in the transcendent order. It was the moment when Jesus had the non-dual experience, when he could say, "I and the Father are one." "Whoever sees me sees the Father." His humanity had become so completely taken up int the divinity, that the Father was no longer an object, related as subject to object, but as subject in subject.
God may seem to be most absent in pain, but with the starvation of every access to pleasure, in the unwanted thwarting of the will, in the mortification or dying which life eventually imposes on us, there often stirs in the deepest reaches of the soul another kind of life. It will soon come to the surface in those who die gracefully by accepting their mortality and even welcoming it as a stage of growth. When this has been achieved, one has already risen from the dead, even as Jesus did at the moment of his death on the cross.
- James M. Somerville, The Mystical Sense of the Gospel, pp. 140 - 141.
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