To be near unto God - pagina 417

hand was stretched out in the night to my Thou, Lord, held mine eyes watchIn the night I communed with mine own ing. heart; and my spirit made diligent search."

"My God

in prayer.

When we close our eyes for sleep, or for prayer, we go out from light, by excluding the same, into

We

desired darkness. do this with respect to that with our spirit we may sink back into the darkness of unconscious life; and with respect to prayer, that, shut out from light of day, we may seek in clearer conciousness the higher light which shines around the throne of

sleep,

God. In nature, light is not disturbed by darkness, for darkness is there of itself, and it is only by increasing light that darkness is overcome. At first there was no light, but darkness. "The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep;" and in that darkness Hght 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 there of itself, as soon as light withdraws itself. 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 Ught of sun, moon is

This

and stars, darkness So in the mind

returns. of a new-bom child there is

entire unconsciousness and ignorance. This 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

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