DAILY CONTEMPLATION

July 8, 2026 ~ Epep 1, 1742

The accord and affinity of all things with one another that is controlled in an orderly and sequential manner
is the primal, archetypal, true music.
It is this music that the Conductor of the universe skillfully strikes up
in the unspoken speech of wisdom through these ever-occurring movements…
The very heavens, in displaying the wisdom of Him who made them,
all but shout aloud with a voice, and, though without voice, proclaim the wisdom of their Creator.
For we can hear as it were words teaching us:
“O mortals, when you gaze on us and behold our beauty and magnitude
and this ceaseless revolution, with its well-ordered and harmonious motion,
working in the same direction and in the same manner,
turn your thoughts to Him who presides over our system,
and, by aid of the beauty that you see, imagine to yourselves the beauty of the invisible Archetype.
For in us there is nothing without its Lord, nothing that moves of its own proper motion,
but all that appears or that is conceivable in respect to us depends on a Power who is inscrutable & sublime.”
This is not given in articulate speech but by the things which are seen,
and it instills into our minds the knowledge of divine power more than if speech proclaimed it with a voice.
St. Gregory of Nyssa