One could easily understand that
although water might reflect all things, the water was itself
'invisible' to the extent that one might see through it. Further, the
water itself had no particular shape.
So might the Invisible God, she thought to herself, be seen in all
things, and yet not be seen, even as one looked into the reflection of
the water basin and by this marvelous result behold all mere physical
things of the world. Yet one could no more touch the Invisible God than
one could reach into the reflections in the water and touch them
either. In spite of this, she could easily perceive what was real, and
what was illusion. What great spiritual riches she had found in a bowl
of water.
How could anyone possibly make an idol of the Invisible God? Why, one
might as well try to make an idol of the wind itself, and did not God
so breathe the very wind of life into the first man, the Patriarch Adam
himself?
Adam and Eve had seen God, and talked with Him, when He came walking in
the Garden of Eden, before they were cast out. Was not man said to be
made in God's image, according to the ancient but discredited folklore
and children's fables about Adam and Eve? Hence, the form of man must
resemble the form of God, although man was but man, meaning mankind,
which included womankind, and God was God.
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