»Nature never tought me that there exists a God of glory and infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me.[...]
We must not try to find a direct path through it and beyond it to an increasing knowledge of God. The path peters out almost at once. Terrors and mysteries, the whole deph of God's counsels and the whole tangle of the history of the universe, choke it. We can't get trough; not that way. We must make a detour - leave the hills and woods and go back to our studies, to church, to our Bibles, to our knees. Otherwise the love of nature is beginning to turn into a nature religion. And then, even if it does not lead to the Dark Gods, it will lead us to a great deal of nonsense.
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Say your prayers in a garden early, ignoring steadfastly the dew, the birds and the flowers, and you will come away overwhelmed by its freshness and joy; go there in order to be overwhelmed and, after a certain age, nine times out of ten nothing will happen to you.«
(C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves)
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Ich freue mich über Meinungen, (sinnvolles) Feedback und Hinweise aller Art. Fragen sind auch immer willkommen, eine Garantie ihrer Beantwortung kann ich freilich nicht geben. Nonsens (z.B. Verschwörungstheorien, atheistisches Geblubber und Esoterik) wird gelöscht. Trolle finden hier keine Nahrung.