excerpt from T.S. Eliot
Out of the sea of sound the life of music …
There spring the perfect order of speech, and the beauty of incantation …
For Man is joined spirit and body,
And therefore must serve as spirit and body.
Visible and invisible, two worlds meet in Man;
Visible and invisible must meet in His Temple …
Now you shall see the Temple completed …
The dressed altar, the lifting light,
Light
Light
The visible reminder of invisible Light …
We thank Thee for the lights that we have kindled,
The Light of altar and of sanctuary …
We thank Thee who hast moved us to building, to finding,
To forming at the ends of our fingers and beams of our eyes …
And we thank Thee that darkness reminds us of light.
O Light Invisible, we give Thee thanks for Thy great glory!
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