The burning thorn bush

Pencil on paper

2021

mostly 9 x 15 cm

In this light, my spirit immediately saw through everything and recognised God in all creatures, both in herbs and grass, who he is and how he is and what his will is. For I saw and recognised the essence of all beings, the reason and the abyss: item, the birth of the Holy Trinity, the origin and the origin of this world and all creatures, through divine wisdom. I recognised and saw in myself all three worlds, as (1.) the Divine Angelish or Paradeisian; and then (2.) the dark world, as the origin of nature to fire; and then (3.) this outer, visible world as a creature and spawn, or as a distinct being from the two inner spiritual worlds.

Jacob Böhme, Theosophical Letters 12, 8

“The whole world is a burning bush for those who can see God’s light in all that is created. Then you take off your sandals, because the whole ground on which you stand is holy.”

Father Johannes von Niederaltaich
freely adapted from
Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia 'Through Creation to the Creator’
(Essay, 1996: Marco Pallis memorial lecture)https://incommunion.org/2004/12/11/through-creation-to-the-creator/