Splendor of Light

neither to be comprehended, nor to be fathomed. I sought comfort from this very same royal prophet, David, and found him likewise sighing in this contemplation: Psalm 8:1. O Lord! How wonderful is Your name over all the earth; for Your glory is above the heavens. Yet he comforted me, as he gave me the answer, as it were, in the 19th chapter and 2nd verse: The heavens tell of the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims the work of His hands. As if he wished to say: Through the knowledge of nature and creation original: "Kreatur" — here referring to all created things or the natural world, we can attain the knowledge of God.

But I am satisfied even more by the golden words of the great Apostle to the World original: "Weltapostels" — a title for Paul as the apostle to the Gentiles/nations, Paul, in the Epistle to the Romans 1:20, where his enlightened spirit speaks thus: For the invisible things of Him (God) are understood by being seen through the creation of the world, through the things that are made. original Latin: "Invisibila enim ipsius (DEI) a creatura mundi, per ea, quae facta sunt, intellectu conspiciuntur." That is: through the visible, we must recognize the invisible. And this is confirmed by what God Himself said to Moses in Exodus 33:23 with the following words: And I will take away my hands, so you shall see what is behind me; but my face shall not be seen.

Wherein many highly enlightened interpreters of the Holy Scriptures have understood nature, along with its effects and properties, to be represented by these "hinder parts" original: "hintern Theil". Following this hint, in order to arrive at divine knowledge Erkenntniß: In this context, it refers to more than just intellectual learning; it is a deep, spiritual recognition or experiential understanding of the divine, I turned to the physical or natural sciences, which in their entire scope—