St. Gregory of
Nyssa writes
that “all of what we see that characterise the mortal creature, have all been
transformed by being united with the properties of divinity”.[3]He also writes that “the right hand of
God, which created everything, the Lord, by Whom everything was made and without
Whom there isn’t any being that would have existed, rises the man who is united
with Him to His own height by this union, having made him too, exactly what He
Himself is in His nature”.[4]
St. Gregory
the Theologian
writes that “what has granted the deification and what has been deified, are
One God”.[5]
St. Maximus Confessor
writes about the man who is saved: “along with God he will penetrate with his
mind the creatures and he will undertake as God and not as man their knowledge,
because he has been granted the very same wisdom of God and fulness of knowledge
of the creatures; his mind and his sense are transformed, they have become
divine”.[6]
