The
Hour of God
The world
is a movement of God in His own being; we are the centres and knots of divine
consciousness which sum up and support the processes of His move-ment. The world
is His play with His own self-conscious delight, He who alone exists, infinite,
free and perfect; we are the self-multiplications of that conscious delight,
thrown out into being to be His playmates.
The world is a formula, a rhythm,
a symbol-system expressing God to Himself in His own consciousness, - it has
no material existence but exists only in His consciousness and self-expression;
we, like God, are in our inward being That which is expressed, but in our outward
being terms of that formula, notes of that rhythm, symbols of that system. Let
us lead forward God's movement ...
This is our joy and our
self-fulfilment; ... -p21