Eternity Manifest in the Light of the Day
Childhood, Delight, Folly, Wisdom, in the writings of Thomas Traherne
Eternity Manifest
Thomas Traherne was a relatively obscure English parson of the seventeenth century. His writings were not known during his lifetime and it was only long after his death that anything was made of them. The book from which I am about to quote was only published in the early twentieth century. And yet Traherne was a man of immense spiritual and literary power.
Centuries of Meditations is a book of short reflections numbered from one to a hundred, which treat of various religious and devotional themes. One of which is the glory of childhood and the spiritual need of mankind to recover his lost innocence.
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