They see well that there is a great difference between the creature and the Creator, between time and eternity, between light created and Light uncreated.
O everlasting Light, far surpassing all created things, send down the beams of Your brightness from above, and purify, gladden, and illuminate in me all the inward corners of my heart.
(pp. 155-156)
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