Şimşek Çakışları: Tanrı'yı İdrak Mertebeleri

As for those profound Mysteries, do not think that they are perfectly and precisely known to any human: not at all. Rather, sometimes the truth seems to shine and sparkle for us like light or day, but afterwards it is hidden again, either by Nature or by Habit, so that we almost return to our former darkness. We are like those whom lightning occasionally illuminates in the thickest gloom of night. In this way, for some, the flashes are so frequent and follow one another so closely that they can perceive almost no interval; they seem to themselves to live in continuous light, and the night is like day to them. Such is the great degree of illumination of the Prophets. For others, the lightning flashes are so spaced that there is a long interval between one and the next. This is the common degree of the greater part of the Prophets. For others, only a single flash appears throughout the whole night. There are also some who clearly do not reach such a degree where their darkness is illustrated by lightning, but only by some pure, bright, and shining body, like a stone, a gem, or similar things, which are accustomed to scatter light in the darkness. And these are the degrees according to which men are distinguished in their perception of God.