Which fashions its own material, not that of others,
And does not falter or doubt, but all by itself
Lightly and surely, as fire burns and sparkles.
Easily and widely, as light spreads everywhere,
Never scattering its forces, but stable, quiet, and at one,
Orders and disposes of everything together.
Campanella, even in a revolting prison, sang in praise of the wisdom and love of God, and His image in Nature. He personified everything in her; nothing was without feeling; the very movements of the stars depended on sympathy and antipathy; harmony was the central soul of all things.
The most extraordinary of all German thinkers was the King of Mystics, Jacob Böhme. Theist and pantheist at once, his mind was a ferment of different systems of thought. It is very difficult to unriddle his Aurora, but love of Nature, as well as love of God, is clear in its mystical utterances:
God is the heart or source of Nature.
Nature is the body of God.