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The external world of physics has … become a world of shadows. In
removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we
have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. ...

The sparsely spread nuclei of electric force become a tangible solid;
their restless agitation becomes the warmth of summer; the octave of
aethereal vibrations becomes a gorgeous rainbow.

Nor does the alchemy stop here. In the transmuted world new significances
arise which are scarcely to be traced in the world of symbols; so that it becomes a
world of beauty and purpose — and, alas, suffering and evil.

The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world
of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

--Arthur Stanley Eddington

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God is not, as in scholasticism, the final subject of all predicates.
He is being as unpredicable. The existence of the creature, in so far
as it exists, is the existence of God, and the creature’s experience of
God is therefore in the final analysis equally unpredicable. Neither
can even be described; both can only be indicated. We can only point at
reality, our own or God’s. The soul comes to the realization of God by
knowledge, not as in the older Christian mysticism by love. Love is the
garment of knowledge. The soul first trains itself by systematic
unknowing until at last it confronts the only reality, the only
knowledge, God manifest in itself. The soul can say nothing about this
experience in the sense of defining it. It can only reveal it to
others.
 --Kenneth Rexroth


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I was persuaded and am, that God's way is first to turn a soul from its
idols, both of heart, worship, and conversation, before it is capable
of worship to the true and living God.
 --Roger Williams (theologian)

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