'It is,' says Swedenborg ('Angelic Wisdom,' 7, 25, 26, 27), 'a vapor of the virtue of God, a pure emanation of His splendor, beside which our greatest brilliance is obscurity.

It can compass all; it can renew all, and is never absorbed: it environs the Angel and unites him to God by infinite joys which multiply infinitely of themselves.

This Light destroys whosoever is not prepared to receive it.

No one here below, nor yet in Heaven can see God and live.

This is the meaning of the saying (Exodus xix.