To be near unto God - pagina 421

hand was stretched out in the night to my Grod in prayer. Thou, Lord, held mine eyes watching. In the night I communed with mine own heart; and my spirit made diligent search." When we close our eyes for sleep, or for prayer, we go out from light, by excluding the same, into desired darkness. We do this with respect to sleep, that with our spirit we may sink back into the darkness of unconscious life; and with respect to prayer, that, shut out from Hght of day, we may seek in clearer conciousness the higher light which shines around the throne of

"My

God. In nature,

not disturbed by darkness, for there of itself, and it is only by increasing light that darkness is overcome. At first there was no light, but darkness. "The earth darkness

light is

is

was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep;" and in that darkness light broke forth by the creative word of God. And when, later on, darkness again covers the earth, it does not obtrude upon light from without, but is there of itself, as soon as light withdraws itself. This is so in the world of matter, and spiritually it is not otherwise. There was darkness in nature, and so it remained until God created light; and so soon as God withdraws the light of sun, moon and stars, darkness returns. So in the mind of a new-born child there is at first entire unconsciousness and ignorance. This continues

until

the

light

of

the

consciousness

awakens in the soul, and gradually gains in clearness. But this clearness of the consciousness can fade again into darkness. This happens when one faints, or is

hypnotized, in part also with the insane 413

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