The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

FIFTH LIGHTLifeWord, vita verbum, psychod.The life was in the wordand the life ivas the lightof men.St. John,In the beginning, before the manifestationof all things, the Word was, and in thisWord was this tissue veil of love, of intelligenceand of light which covered itsglory.The luminous veil was living, because thelife was in the Word and thelight of men.life was theThis light has remained invisible to theirbodily eye, incapable of perceiving it, whichmade it all the more unheeded, although itwas proclaimed by the initiated and belongedto the pure and to the strong.But all coming at its appointed time, itcould not for ever remain beyond experimentalphenomenonism ; now that the evo-— 108 —