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"This brings me to the other sense of glory -- glory as brightness, splendour, luminosity.
We are to shine as the sun; we are to be given the Morning Star. I think I begin to see
what it means. In one way, of course, God has given us the Morning Star already: you
can go and enjoy the gift on many fine mornings if you get up early enough. What more,
you may ask, do we want? Ah, but we want so much more -- something the books on
aesthetics take little notice of. But the poets and the mythologies know all about it. We do
not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want
something else that can hardly be put into words -- to be united with the beauty we see, to
pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we
have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses and nymphs and elves --
that, though we cannot, yet these projections can enjoy in themselves that beauty, grace,
and power of which Nature is the image.... For if we take the imagery of Scripture
seriously, if we believe that God will one day give us the Morning Star and cause us to
put on the splendour of the sun, then we may surmise that both the ancient myths and
modern poetry, so false as history, may be very near the truth as prophecy. At present we
are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and
purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the
splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rushing with the rumour
that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in."
(Quoted from C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory)
(Quoted from C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory)
