Therefore, O man, cease your delays, and take hold of the blessed Ladder:
In vain do you seek to enter the heavens by another path.
It is not of human power to reach the high citadels:
The path that GOD Himself builds is the only one to be trodden.

The Burning Bush,

Exodus 3.

He who desires to see CHRIST under an illustrious image,
And the Word original: "Logos" united to flesh by a secret covenant,
Let him visit the glades of Horeb and the summits conscious
Of the present Jove poetic shorthand for the Divine. This venerable Bush offers
A sweet Sacrament to be seen in manifest light.
Behold the Shrub shines far and wide with radiant flame,
And clear fires illuminate the green Woods,
Yet they do not consume with crepitating heat the leafy
Offspring of the shining thicket, nor does the leafy grove
Feel torrid damages: But with the heat of the gentle fuel
The harmless Fire licks the uninjured branches.
The mind of men, moved by the novelty of the to-be-feared monster,
Approaches in vain, in vain attempts to know
The causes of the prodigy. These sacred things ward off
The profane Empedocles the Greek philosopher, who, as ancient history relates,