“As the diamond is the crystalline Revelator of the achromatic white light of Heaven, so is a perfect poem the crystalline revelation of the Divine Idea.”
Preface to Eonchs of Ruby.
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Thomas Holley Chivers 5
19th century American poet 1809–1858Related quotes
Creation Myths (1972), Deus Faber
Context: Always at bottom there is a divine revelation, a divine act, and man has only had the bright idea of copying it. That is how the crafts all came into existence and is why they all have a mystical background. In primitive civilizations one is still aware of it, and this accounts for the fact that generally they are better craftsmen than we who have lost this awareness. If we think that every craft, whether carpenter's or smith's or weaver's, was a divine revelation, then we understand better the mystical process which certain creation myths characterize as God creating the world like a craftsman. By creating the world through such a craft he manifests a secret of his own mysterious skill.
“The essential purpose of revelation is to develop divine knowledge in man.”
Theology and Mysticism
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 230.
1900s, God Does Not Exist (1904)
Letter to his sister Elena Sikorski (1945); in Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (2000) Edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, p. 387.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 36 (p. 337)