Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-03-09
For the Fayetteville Observer.
The Symbols Of the Sub
lime.
Extracts from an Unpublished
Manuscript Entitled ''The Or
igin of Things"
BY JOHN A WOMACK.

The psychology of the floral
kingdom is a worship of the es-
sence of natures beauty. The
lover of aesthetics will find in
the symbols of sublimity-fow.
ers- something that will make
him better. holier and happier,
while viewing them as mirrors
OF eternal truth and beauty
The delicate flush of a newborn
rose with all its loveliness and
its delicious odor-who does not
worship its heavenly hues?-pure,
sweet types of angels eyes. No
doubt, the Spirit land is clad in
a vesture of green spiritualized
and blessed immortal flowers
The wonders of nature prove the
truths Of the Symbolism of the
sublime-snd flowers must be
symbols of immortal ones, which
bloom forever and ever. We feel
that the existence of the amaranth
is no fiction. Keats daisies were
types Of immortal ones, which
blow forever in the celestial fields
of Eden. The lilies are types
of the snow-whlte robes worn by
saints and angels. A flower gar
den flushed with the hues of the
setting sun and decked with va
ried blossoms is type of the
Better Land, where the supernal
essence imparts the germ of eter.
nal life to the human species. A
love for the beautiful symbols of
the Elysian fields Of Eden inspires
man to bow at the shrine Of Ma
ture, and TO breathe his portion of
the infinite essence given to finite
beings, as a foretaste Of the am.
brosia in the Angel Home
Water, too, is another symbol
"a symbol of the nectar we
are allowed to drink, while
wandering in the sunny fields
and cooling bowers Of that
bIissfuI place. In the sweet
notes Of the beautiful children
of the air-the birds-we seem
to hear the faint echo of the
harps of the angels. The liv-
ing flowers Of the air-the but
terfies-hOW inexpressibly beau-
tiful! If all these things are
eternal symbols of immortal
truth and love, why do we feel
such a dread to visit the other
sphere? Death is no foe to God,
or nature. 1t is only Il change
to something bright and new.
The finite essence which once
dwelt in Napoleon may be in
some animal, stone, or herb
that we see to-day. The COM
ponent parts, or the constituent
elements, which composed the
body Of the great man, George
Washington, may exist in some
flower or tree, which we see a.
round us. Thought borrows
light from the mind and reason
teaches man that nature is his
mother. The history Of man is
told in his origin, his life and
his death. Nature demands
our body and God our SOUL
Nature holds the keys of life
and death--deathis is life and life
is death. Our lives are death
to- organic matter and our death
is life to it. The Universe is
filled with eternal life and mat
ter itself is also cternal-f,or all |
matter is filed with life, and as
there is no death in reality only |
a change from one kind Of a
life to another one, it follows |
that eternal and universal life |
pervades all matter and that life |
never ceases. All matter has |
motion, for all matter is full Of |
life and life cannot be without |
Therefore, nothing is |
Inert. The essence Of the Uni |
verse being eternal life, it fol-
lows that the matter composing |
it contains the principle of life,
also. The germ-bud Of being
came from the central soul Of |
nature. Silence, alone, speaks,
where eternity began and mans
spiritual life is the universal
echo Of eternal ages to come.
Time is never-ending eternity
eternity is only one time-an e.
ternal now of universal life.--I
Mans imaginary divisions Of
time are swallowed up in the
vast ocean Of eternity. There
is no time in the ABSTRACT
There is in reality no present
time; before we can think, it has
fled. Time is the tomb builder
Of the past and will be Of the
Future, In every wave of time