Idols do not arrest our vision to nothing outside itself
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The highest aim of an idol is to make the delight we experience in vision itself perceptible to us 0 0 1Then it must be true that...
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The immediate vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural 1 0 2The soul, for the immediate vision of God, requires the light of glory 1 0 2The highest aim of an idol is to make the delight we experience in vision itself perceptible to us 0 0 1Idols arrest our vision to nothing outside itself 0 0 1Idols reduce the divine to the measure of the human gaze 0 0 1The icon does not aim to satiate vision 0 0 1Icons do not aim to restrict the vision to a particular point 0 0 1The icon seeks to free the vision by confronting it with the invisible 0 0 1Icons and idols are mutually exclusive 0 0 1Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart - who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes 0 0 1