Then there will be neither Resurrection nor Universal Judgment, since we creatures, as you say, insensitively unite with the Creator, understanding nothing.

And then God suffers through you, as if He were not Life, and, uniting with us, does not impart life to us.

The Creator is incorruptible, but the creatures are perishable, for having sinned, they subjected not only the body, but also the very souls to corruption.

For this reason we are corruptible both in body and soul, just as we are all possessed by the corruption of spiritual death and sin.

If, therefore, the Incorruptible One is by nature united to me, the corruptible, then verily there will be one of the two things of which I wish to say:

Either He will change me and make me incorruptible, or the Incorruptible One will be changed into corruption, and thus I may not know that He suffered and became like me.

But if I became all incorruptible from the perishable, having cleaved to the Incorruptible, how could I not have felt this? how may I not know by experience what I have become, having become what I was not?

For whoever says that God, uniting with men, does not impart to them divine incorruption, but rather Himself is swallowed up by their corruption, teaches about the destruction of the Immortal and blasphemes, himself completely falling away from Life.

If this is impossible, then it is better to accept another and before the end try to partake of incorruption.

God is Light, but we are in darkness, or rather, we ourselves are darkness.

Do not be deceived, God does not shine anywhere else, except for those souls with whom He will unite before the end.

For others, however, if it shines, as the preachers of the truth have spoken, it will appear to them as a completely unapproachable fire, which will test the work of each one and again depart from them as from the unworthy.

They will receive a worthy torment.

In spite of all this, here and there the Light is the same for souls, but we, having unenlightened souls, are darkness.