How can he understand God’s countenance in aught?
He that a window’s pierced from heart towards heaven’s recess,
Sees in each mote a ray from Sun of Righteousness.[188]
God shines apparent in the midst of other things,
As moon in majesty among the stars’ twinklings.
Place thou two finger-tips upon thy two eyeballs.
What seest thou now of all the world? Darkness befalls.30
Thou seest it not; but that the world exists, thou’lt trust.
Our vices are the finger-tips of fleshly lust.
Thy finger-tips remove; instanter, as before,