To be near unto God - pagina 106

worship by application to God's majesty. God is In Him is no darkness at all. He dwells in light unapproachable, and Father of lights is his name. After the creation, therefore, when "darkness was upon the face of the deep," God could not appear in the created world without first sending forth the command: ''Let there be light," and then there was light. The majesty of God revealed itself in a column of fire at the Red Sea. i.nd in a cloud of light in Solomon's Temple. When Moses was to be marked in a special w^ay as the Lord's ambassador, his face shone with blinding splendor. The Savior showed himself on light.

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the descriptions of the New Jerusalem the climax of its splendor is that there shall be no more sun nor moon there, for that by his benign presence God himself shall lighten the world of glory. Sacred art has long expressed this by representing the head of Christ and of saints surrounded by an halo and their form in glistening robes. We do not treat this here from its material side. It is well known that certain people, who are strongly impregnated with magnetism, are able to make electric rays of light go out from their finger tips. We need not doubt that radiancy of face in moments of great joy is connected with natural operations. But the source of this facial light is not in the magnetic current, but in the spirit, in the soul, and all the rest is used merely as vehicle

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