Transfiguration

This article presents a brief poem by Jacques Touraille entitled "Transfiguration," published in an Orthodox theology journal. It is a poetic meditation that draws on images from the natural cycle — mists, rain, sap, ferns, fire — to depict an inner and cosmic transformation. The central idea is that existence itself constitutes a liturgy: the sensible world, in its movement of gestation and awakening, becomes the site of a progressive transfiguration of matter toward light. On a theological level, the poem belongs to an Orthodox vision of deification, in which the entire creation participates in a luminous becoming that culminates in a "final blaze." The contribution of this text lies in its capacity to express, through poetic form, a theology of transfiguration rooted in the concrete reality of the natural world and human experience.