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Light (God's eldest daughter!)
Light (God's eldest daughter!)
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
For I light my candle from their torches.
For I light my candle from their torches.
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn!
Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,
May I express thee read more
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn!
Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light
And never but in unapproached light
Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,
Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.
A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er read more
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,
Common to now the living, now the dead.
More light!
[Ger., Mehr Licht!]
More light!
[Ger., Mehr Licht!]
