As you cannot obtain sound from the void, it is plain that music and the human voice are the result of organized chemical substances, which put themselves in unison with the same substances prepared within you by your thought, co-ordinated by means of light, the great nourisher of your globe.

Have you ever meditated on the masses of nitre deposited by the snow, have you ever observed a thunderstorm and seen the plants breathing in from the air about them the metal it contains, without concluding that the sun has fused and distributed the subtle essence which nourishes all things here below?
Swedenborg has said, 'The earth is a man.' "Your Science, which makes you great in your own eyes, is paltry indeed beside the light which bathes a Seer.

Cease, cease to question me; our languages are different.

For a moment I have used yours to cast, if it be possible, a ray of faith into your soul; to give you, as it were, the hem of my garment and draw you up into the regions of Prayer.

Can God abase Himself to you?
Is it not for you to rise to Him?
If human reason finds the ladder of its own strength too weak to bring God down to it, is it not evident that you must find some other path to reach Him?
That Path is in ourselves.