. Lion and dragon in northern China. must depend upon the exact shade ofmeaning to be attached to the word god. A roughunhewn stone may be a god at one place andtime—though probably, as in the case of the meteoricstone that is said to have been carried in the Arkof Jahveh, it is never regarded by initiates asmore than a sacred emblem or representation. Atanother place and time God becomes an ineffableSpirit invisible to the human eye and only partiallyattainable by human thought. Of Thee, saidHooker, our fittest eloquence is silence, while weconfess without confessing that Thy Glory is un-sear
. Lion and dragon in northern China. must depend upon the exact shade ofmeaning to be attached to the word god. A roughunhewn stone may be a god at one place andtime—though probably, as in the case of the meteoricstone that is said to have been carried in the Arkof Jahveh, it is never regarded by initiates asmore than a sacred emblem or representation. Atanother place and time God becomes an ineffableSpirit invisible to the human eye and only partiallyattainable by human thought. Of Thee, saidHooker, our fittest eloquence is silence, while weconfess without confessing that Thy Glory is un-searchable and beyond our reach. Nor need it besupposed that the sublimer conception of Deity isthe newly-won possession of Christians only. Perhapsno loftier idea of the Godhead has ever existed inmans mind than that of the composers of some ofthe Indian Vedas and Upanishads which were pro-duced many hundreds if not thousands of years ;indeed Hookers prayer and many other Christianprayers grander and nobler would not seem at all.
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