"Smith, Clark Ashton - The Demon The Angel And Beauty" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith Clark Ashton)

and sublime speculation among the archangels, and a perennial theme for the more
inspired singers and harpists of the cherubim-yea, despite all this, we are
greatly ignorant as to its true nature, and substance, and attributes. But
sometimes there are mighty adumbrations which cover even the superior seraphim
from above the wing-tips, and make unfamiliar twilight in heaven. And sometimes
there is an echo which fills the empyrean, and hushes the archangelic harps in
the midst of their praising of God. This is often, and these visitations of echo
and shadow spread an awe over the assembled Thrones and Splendours and
Dominations, which at other times accompanies only the emanence or appearance of
God Himself. Thus are we assured as to the reality of this Beauty. And because
it remains a mystery to us, to whom naught else is mysterious except God, we
conjecture that it is the thing upon which God meditateth, self-obscured and
centred, and because of which He hath held Himself immanifest to us for so many
aeons: that this is the secret which God keepeth even from the seraphim."