Why Are Things As They Are And

Do We Ask What Profit The Little Bird Hopes For In Singing?

[god] Is The Kind Creator Who Brought Forth Nature Out Of Nothing.

It Is A Right, Yes A Duty, To Search In Cautious Manner For The Numbers, Sizes, And Weights, The Norms For Everything [god] Has Created. For He Himself Has Let Man Take Part In The Knowledge Of These Things ... For These Secrets Are Not Of The Kind Whose Research Should Be Forbidden; Rather They Are Set Before Our Eyes Like A Mirror So That By Examining Them We Observe To Some Extent The Goodness And Wisdom Of The Creator.

...those Laws Are Within The Grasp Of The Human Mind. God Wanted Us To Recognize Them By Creating Us After His Own Image So That We Could Share In His Own Thoughts... And If Piety Allow Us To Say So, Our Understanding Is In This Respect Of The Same Kind As The Divine, At Least As Far As We Are Able To Grasp Something Of It In Our Mortal Life.

My Greatest Desire Is That I May Perceive The God Whom I Find Everywhere In The External World, In Like Manner Also Within And Inside Myself.