Passage 3

In English

For, as a cup or some other vessel is needed to drink milk, so too to imbibe the Grace of the Lord a vessel called Idol is necessary. The idol is a means and not the end; it is the outer form; the inner content is Divinity. Western critics laugh at idol worship and say that reduce God into stone; but the truth is, elevate stone into God. God is the seat of illumination; He scatters all darkness of Ignorance. That is why said (Extol the Glory of ) , , ! (O Mind that is immersed in the sempiternal darkness of ignorance).