December 6
When He prepared the Heavens, I (Wisdom)
Companions of the Way (Morning)was there.
IN the star-field of the Hunting Dogs there is to be seen the great spiral Nebula in the long act of giving birth, like other nebulae, but more obviously than most, to systems of suns, systems of worlds. . . . Out of one of these clouds, now fulfilled and gone, we men came; or rather, I put it to myself, the stuff which I use for an earthly body came thence. The significance of those almost intolerable marvels, their only significance to me, is life. There I see life enormous, majestic, matching Him whom it reflects, a part of the great image that embraces us; but it is life in our earthly rank, ranged with our life here on Tellus, this little satellite of a sun not large, to which my ship of life is anchored. Not there, in any earthy, starry world, nor here, is the Avalon of our souls; but through the hidden opening into some wider sea beyond this radiant veil of clouds and worlds of clouds.
A Modern Mystic's Way
THE ETERNAL TIDE