6. “All things in the cosmos exist
so as to manifest something of
the mystery of God.”
Editor's Notes
Circle/River: Divine Trinity = “intelligible circle whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere”
“…the return of creation to the same mystery of divine love as their final end.”
“…a river which returns to its point of origin”
Water: God = “living fountain of water”
Creation is immense river flowing from that fountain
Oceans represent “the overwhelming fullness of creation as it flows from the depths of God.”
Song: Each note’s meaning can only be discerned by understanding the whole melody
“dynamic inter-relatedness”
“wild diversity of creatures”
Book: “…written in the consciousness of God in the form of the divine Word”
“When that Word is expressed externally [think, “sacramentally”], what comes into being is the created cosmos…”
Window: We are darkness mixed with light; we are a pathway to the exemplar (God)
Microcosm: There are elements of everything in the universe in a human being.
Cross: “Symbol of cosmic reality and its history to the revelation of the Scriptures…”