/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11754664]

>Following the eternal act of self-revelation, the world as we now behold it, is all rule, order, and form; but the unruly lies ever in the depths as though it might again break through, and order and form nowhere appear to have been original, but it seems as though what had initially been unruly had been brought to order. This is the incomprehensible basis of reality in things, the irreducible remainder which cannot be resolved into reason by the greatest exertion but always remains in the depths … Without this preceding gloom, creation would have no reality; darkness is its necessary heritage. Only God - the Existent himself - dwells in pure light, for he alone is self-born. … Nevertheless, we can think of nothing better fitted to drive man to strive towards the light with all energy, than the consciousness of the deep night out of which he was raised into existence. … All birth is a birth out of darkness into light: the seed must be buried in the earth and die in the darkness in order that the lovelier creature of light should rise and unfold itself in the rays of the sun. Man is formed in his mother's womb; and only out of the darkness of unreason (out of feeling, out of longing, the sublime mother of understanding) grow clear thoughts.

just... just in awe of this gnosis lads