To be near unto God - pagina 549
a
.
God
we created
after our image, but
after the
image of God. And this you will not get from books, and not from travel, and not from acquaintance with men. For all this only confines you to the limit and to the measure of our small proportions, and is altogether different from a rising or a setting of God's sun; altogether different from the flash of lightning or from the thunder that rolls in the clouds; altogether different from the glory
of
the
starry
skies
that
arch
themselves
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:
above you; altogether
different
from the great
forests, or the lion that roars for prey.
In nature we have the sublime, and in the sublime we have the Divine utterance of what is superlatively beautiful and glorious. The high and the lofty: even a majesty which infinitely surpassed the small dimensions of human economy
and
of
human
A.orks, so that
you may know and
understand that you are not in touch with the bungling works of man, but with the glorious, sublime art of the Creator of heaven and of earth. Truly, the beautiful in nature can not disclose to
,
you the way of salvation, and its spiritual mysteries. For this purpose God in compassion has given you his Gospel. But what the outshining of God's majesty and divinity in nature effects is: that it binds and expands and elevates all your ideas to an higher sphere than what your sight can give you; that it lifts you up from the insignificant-human to the Divinely-great; in brief: to
•
what is exalted! And that in this way it brings the High and Lofty One nearer unto you.
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