The Way of the Seven Fold Secret by Lilias Trotter

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intellect, or the poor candle of a worship that he has
devised. But we all know, the house of Islam and the
Christians alike, that there is but One alone Who is as
the one sun that shines on the evil and the good, even as
David said in his Psalm, "The Lord God is a Sun",* and
till the light shines on man, he is in darkness.
But the matter that we now want to put before you,
0 our brothers, is the question: how does the light and
warmth of the sun reach us in the world? for the sun is
far off in the heavens. If we could take t:1e boundless
journey needful to reach it, we should be blinded and
scorched and shrivelled by its power.
The sun must come to us, that is clear, for we cannot
go to him. He sends forth his rays, we know not how.t
They are of one nature with the sun and come down to
earth, and bring the sun as it were to our doors, but with
his light aud warmth softened till we can bear the radiance
and rejoice in it. They are one with the sun that
is far away in the heavens, and yet they touch the earth.
As one of your own poets has said,-
" Tis the sun's self that lets the sun be seen." Even
so the knowledge that man had of God before Christ
came was like the light of dawn. When He came to
earth, He came to reveal God,Las the rays that are of one >.,
nature with the sunf come to make it manifest in a way
that we can bear to behold. Christ is "the brightness of
* Psalm 84. II.
t Philip saith unto Him, Lord show us the Father and it sufficeth
us. Jesus saith unto hlm, Have I been so long time with you and
yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen Me bath seen
the Father (John I 14. 8, 9),