Job 31:26

Though I triumph in the choirs of light or falter in the solitary places of the spheres,

Though I move in loneliness or with the fellows of my kind,

Though I go down into the valley of uncertainty or ascend up into the worlds of doubt,

Let the sun of righteousness shine upon us at noontime,

For my eyes have seen your salvation,

Though I descend into the depths of darkness and death itself,

Said the seer of old: “Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not.” We may constantly observe the works of God, we may be highly conscious of the material evidences of his majestic conduct, but rarely may we gaze upon the visible manifestation of his divinity, not even to behold the presence of his delegated spirit of human indwelling.

When the oblique rays of the sun were observed penetrating earthward through an aperture in the clouds, it was believed that they betokened the letting down of a celestial stairway whereon the king and other righteous souls might ascend. “King Pepi has put down his radiance as a stairway under his feet whereon to ascend to his mother.”

1. Bright and Morning Stars.

1. Bright and Morning Stars.