The Metaphysical magazine Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LAW OF LIFE. BY MARGARET B. PEEKE. More than three thousand years ago, Hermes Trismegistus declared: " None of our thoughts can approach to a knowle... more »dge of God, neither can any language define Him. That which is incorporeal, invisible, without form, cannot be perceived by our senses; that which is eternal cannot be measured by time ; hence God is ineffable. The elect may perceive a little of the radiance of his perfection, but they can never find words to translate into vulgar language the vision that fills them with trepidation." Read the words of Paul, an initiate: " Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. . . . The things of God know- eth no man, but the Spirit of God."—I. Cor. ii., 9, 10, n. " I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell; God knoweth); such an one caught up to the third heaven . . . and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter."—II. Cor. xii., I, 2, 4. If to such as Paul and Hermes comes the indescribable vision of only the outermost radiance, how can ordinary mortals hope for clearer vision, or vision of any kind ? In the words of the great Persian poet and philosopher, all can say : " There was the Door to which I found no key ; There was the Veil through which I could not see. Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee There was, and then no more of Thee and Me." All hearts must come to this direful pessimistic strain who look to the knowledge of sense; but that the gloom is but aseeming we know from the challenge of the same gre...« less