For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so to see it pervaded by a numinous glory, is to see things as they truly are, and to recognize creation as the mirror of God's infinite beauty.
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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