Antroposophia theomagica, das ist, eine Rede von der Natur des Menschen (1704) - Page 19

Lord, turn toward me; let me behold your

light,

Otherwise darkness will completely and

utterly stifle me.

I long to one day see you and your bright

throne,

You who are yourself the reward for your

servants.

Grant that I may be born anew here in my

heart,

So that I am not eternally lost along with

the world.

Lord, lead me out, because I lack the

power;

Take away the darkness and say:

LET THERE BE LIGHT.

It is God's own and established truth: In the beginning—that is, in the dead silence, in the terrifying and empty darkness, when nothing was yet formed—the Lord says in the book of Ezra original: Esdras; this refers to the apocryphal book of 2 Esdras (or 4 Ezra) 6:1-6, which describes God's solitary role in creation, "I considered these things, which were created through me alone and no other; through me and no other shall they also be ended." That contemplation original: Betrachtung; the act of mental focus or planning precedes every glorious work is a matter so well known to man that he needs no further proof of it, but rather only the practice of it. That there is also something comparable (analogous original: Analogicum) in God to that from which man draws his usual knowledge...