To be near unto God - pagina 486

will

come and make our abode with them" (John

And this excludes from God and from being near unto 14:23).

the search after

him, the always

In this sacred domain imitation leads to nothing but selfdeceit. All mysticism of soul, which seeks and finds God, realizes that there is fixedness and unvariable sameness in God's unchangeableness, but the reflection of what is Unique and Eternal in God, which is cast into the human soul, cannot be and never is the same, because one soul differs from another soul in nature, disposition and utterance. For this reason every soul has a history of its own, from which special needs and talents arise. Hence it is not corect to infer from Elijah's experience at the cave, that the Lord only reveals himself in ''A sound of gentle stillness" (I Kings 19:12 R. V. Marg-re<ading) The commlission that was given to Elijah, shows differently He was commissioned to annoint Jehu, to which was added the saying: "Him that escapeth the Sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: And him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay" (I Kings There never was a bolder fanatic than 19:17). Jehu. Not in the fire, and not in the storm, but in a sound of gentle stillness, does not say by any means, that Moses did not find God in the fire of Horeb, nor David in the storm of persecution by Saul. It only states, that for Elijah, at that moment and in the mood in which he found himself, the heat had first to be cooled, and the storm in his heart had first to spend itself, before he was able to meet God in a sound of gentle stillness, and to receive his prophetic killing uniformity.

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