Theosophical Heart-Devotions Directed to the Highest Sole Jehovah

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...to glorify and to proclaim your honor. Your wondrous goodness has also become great toward me today, in that you graciously let me gaze upon your sunlight once more. O, how many during this night must have exchanged their natural sleep for the sleep of death, and how many therein perhaps have sunk into the terrible darkness of a hellish night of death—into a black, fearful, and despair-filled eternity, wherein the light never shines for them? Your merciful love toward me is therefore precious and to be highly esteemed. For as I now awake again from my sleep, it is as much to me as if you had awakened me from the dark night of the grave. Indeed, I must certainly imagine that every morning, when you grant me life anew, you have also created me anew, just as you led me forth from the deep night of a dark nothingnessIn mystical theology, "nothingness" (Nichts) refers to the state before creation, but also the state of humility required to receive God's light..

My God, at this new creation which you perform with me today, I think of the first creation and of the blessed state of Paradise and innocence into which man arrived when he first awoke into this life. With the first sight of this great world-realm, his free spirit saw himself appointed as lord and king over all these earthly splendors. All the fruits of the outer world stood ready for his enjoyment. But there was nothing therein so pleasant that it should have captured this free spirit or drawn it away from the love of God. Rather, he delighted solely in the unspeakable love of God and ruled over the external realm of nature in a constant feeling of heavenly delight. In short, Adam was both servant and lord: a servant of God, and a lord over the entire world; he utilized the creatures for his service, and he stirred his heart for the service of God. O! what was that other than...