...Essence increate! Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?—Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and, at the...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite." 3. Reverence. FROM THE BOOE OF PSALMS. " Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord, my God, Thou art very great;...

...firstborn, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, Bright effluence of bright essence increate, — Thy fountain who shall tell? Before the sun — Before...invest The rising world of waters dark and deep." Commencing with the properties of light, we find its influence on inorganic bodies and vegetables to...

...stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? e before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voiee Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 'The rising...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Eseaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obseure sojourn; while in my flight u Through...

...thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun, Before the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle...formless infinite. Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detaind In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through utter...

...first matter actually tend to equate the two. The words are these (PL 3.8-12) addressed to light : before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. The passage has been understood to tell us that by God's creative light a finite Chaos ("waters") was...

...Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born, Or of th'Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God is Light, And never but in unapproached...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Though utter...

...creative process in his own person. After relating the events of the first day of creation in miniature before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite (pi 3.8-12) - the poet himself rises into a light-filled world from the 'Chaos and Eternal Night (PL...

...Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose Foumain who shall tell? before the Sun, Before the Heavens...waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless inftnite. Aen, 6. 637-41 [Aeneas and the Sibyl emer the Fortunate Fields] His demum exactis, perfecto...

...light from light, into the soul of man. Hail, holy Light ! offspring of heaven first-born ! Or of th' Eternal co-eternal beam ! May I express thee unblamed...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite *. But to prove that they were not appropriated to the ritual of fire-worship, nay, that their history...

...so, like him, uncreated and 'eternal' (11. 2-3). Hail, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam May I express thee...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit...