Splendor of Light

neither to comprehend nor to fathom. I
sought comfort from this very same royal Prophet
David, and found him likewise sighing in this
meditation: 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, as it were, the answer in Chapter 19 and the 2nd verse:
The heavens declare the glory
of God, and the firmament proclaims the
work of his hands. As if he wanted to say:
Through the knowledge: Erkenntniß; a deep, experiential understanding of nature and creation
we can arrive at the knowledge of God.
But even more satisfying to me are the golden
words of the great world-apostle Paul in the
Epistle to the Romans 1:20, where his enlightened
spirit speaks thus: For the invisible things of Him (GOD) are
clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood
through the things that are made. original Latin: "Invisibilia 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,
and you shall see what is behind me; but
my face shall not be seen.
Wherein by "the back parts," many highly enlightened
interpreters of Holy Scripture have understood
nature, along with its effects and properties.
Following this hint, in order to reach
divine knowledge, I turned
to the physical or natural sciences,
as those which I, in their entire scope—