Every creature is a word of God. Meister Eckhart Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth's greenings. Now, think What delight God gives to humankind with all these things . . .
All nature is at the disposal of humankind.
We are to work with it. Forwithout it we cannot survive. We started out talking about an injunctive form of knowledge that leads to knowledge that does not seem to be expressed well in words. Huxley's thesis is that there is a common core to mysticism across time. He states what he believes this common core of beliefs to be and illustrates ideas with quotes from various traditions.