symbols as revelations of the detailed structure of the divine life, seems to me, namely, to look for the eternal within the realm of the mere data of human sense and imagination. To do this, I think, is indeed to seek the risen Lord in the open sepulchre.
Concerning the living truth of the whole conscious universe, one can well say, as one observes the special facts of human sense and imagination: "He is not here; he is arisen." Yet equally from the whole circle of the heaven of that entire self-conscious life which is the truth, there comes always, and to all the loyal, the word: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."