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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE GLORY OF GOD \nFrom a commentary by Eric Peterson \n◊◊◊ \nAngels are more than poetic extras from the repertoire of folk-lore. They \nhave to do with Christ and with the Holy Spirit; but they have to do with us well. \nThey represent for us a possibility in our own nature\, an enhancement and \nintensification of our being – but never the possibility of a new and different \nfaith. They teach us about dark depths in our being wherein is movement and \nimpulse\, independent\, it may be\, of ourselves\, and which we may not even \nrecognize for what they really are\, nor attribute yet awhile to angelic influence. \nAn impulse might simply be felt as an urge towards purity of heart; or one might \nbecome conscious of an overwhelming desire for mental clarity and a true \nexistence. \nWe hurry towards the angels along many paths\, not as though we \nexpected to become an angel\, but because our own being is only a preliminary \nexistence and it does not yet appear what we shall be. And if we do not hurry \ntowards those angels who stand in God’s presence\, then we shall most certainly \nhasten towards those who have turned away from God; we shall rush towards \nthe demons. For we always live so that we transcend ourselves and thus move \ntoward either the angels or the demons. And we who transcend ourselves – for \nto do this is our being – are able to ascend higher and higher\, not in the moral \nbut in the metaphysical sense\, until we become an associate of the angels and \narrive at the frontier of that realm where stand the cherubim and seraphim. \nThis boundary line\, marked out neither by ourselves nor by any \narchangel\, arrests our progress: here we begin to join in the music of the \nspheres and in the singing of the angels. Our song is no mere imitation of the \nangelic song\, no modest joining in the cry of Holy\, holy\, holy which resounds \nfrom their lips majestically and without ceasing; but it is also something which \nerupts from our innermost being when we reach the bounds of all things – the \nbounds of ourselves as creatures. \nWhat do we learn on reaching the angelic world but the creation praises \nGod\, praises him from the last star down to the least blade of grass? What \napplies to the highest grade of creation applies equally to the lowest\, to plant- \nlife\, animals and things which stand much lower than we in the scale of being. \nWhen in the psalms let us say\, animals and mountains break froth in praise of \nGod\, this is no mere hyperbole or excess of poetic fancy\, an unwarrantable \nhuman personifying of inanimate nature. It is something based ultimately in \nthe nature of the created thing\, and which runs fight through the whole scale of \ncreation from the cherubim and seraphim down to the least thing in the world. \nAs the Gospel has told us\, the whole creation is full of the glory of God.
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