To be near unto God - pagina 231

is not invisible, and we are definitely told that once we shall see God face to shall know him, even as we are known. face. Intellectual knowledge, and even spiritual know-

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seeing essential Being itself. How this will be possible, is the mystery of the life to come, although however latent, the organ for this is even now present in the soul. It is not given us to use it in the present. This is the dispensation of limitations, of the finite, and of the things that are bound to form, color and dimensions. And since God is not limited, and has no form, dimension nor end, He is, in this dispensation, the Invisible to us. There is no clear vision of God in this life. The question was, how in this life, God could reveal himself to us in his Majesty, even in such a way as w^ould crystalize itself as a clear and fixed impression in us. And God has realized this aim, 1st by revelation

nature of his Omnipotence and Divinity in dimensions, which give us the impression of the infinite, even through we know they are finite; this is what we call the sublime; 2nd by the imprint of his life in the personal existence of man, creating him after His image; and 3rd by the restoration in full of this ruined and broken image, in

and by showing it to us, in Christ. Hence God himself is in and behind nature. Hence nature is not a finished work of art, that exists by itself outside of and apart from God. But God himself gives us to see and to hear hia Majesty in the starry heavens by night, in the colors of light by day, in the wonders of the

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