, in this school
of wisdom, the natural visible light, of which the Sun is the dispensing
medium to our solar system, and other suns to other circles of planets,
is actually an outer manifestation of the inner supernatural light, and
warmth, not a mere emblem at all. We speak more truly than we know, when
we speak of a "heavenly day." All Nature is a series of "out-births" of
the Deity. "The outward world," says Behmen, "is sprung out of the
inward spiritual world, viz., out of Light and Darkness." And his
English interpreter says: "Whatever is delightful and ravishing, sublime
and glorious in spirits, minds, or bodies, either in heaven, or on
earth, is from the power of the Supernatural Light opening its endless
wonders in them. Hell has no misery, horror or distraction, but because
it has no communication with the supernatural Light. And did not the
supernatural Light stream forth its blessings into this world, through
the materiality of the Sun, all outward Nature would be full of the
horror of Hell." And elsewhere, "There is no meekness, benevolence or
goodness in Angel, Man, _or any other Creature_, but where Light is the
Lord of its life. Life itself begins no sooner, rises no higher, has no
other glory, than as the Light begins it, and leads it on. Sounds have
no softness, flowers and germs no sweetness, plants and fruits have no
growth, but as the Mystery of Light opens itself in them."[F] And so
Behmen himself says: "There is nothing that is created or born in Nature
but it also manifests its internal form externally; for the internal
continually labours or works itself forth to manifestation. We know in
the power and form of this World, how the only Essence has manifested
itself with the external birth in the desire of the similitude; how it
has manifested itself in so many forms and shapes, which we see and know
in the stars and elements, likewise in the living creatures, and also in
the trees and herbs." Thus there is a real communion between all beauty,
sweetness, and glory, within and without the Soul of man.

It is this truth, not of the analogy between the essential life of Man
and Nature, but of the unity in all things, that is now opening itself
out in many ways. Wordsworth, a true seer, has given to it its highest
expression in English Poetry. Modern science all tends to confirmation
of this unity.

God, then, must become Man, there must be a birth of the Life of God in
the Soul, in order that the So