Descent and ascent
God descends to re-ascend. He comes down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity, down further still – if embryologists are right –to recapitulate in the womb ancient and prehuman phases of life. Down into the very roots and sea-bed of the nature he created. But he goes down to come up again and then brings the whole ruined world up with him. One may think of a diver, first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing in mid-air, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing down into green, warm water, into bleak and cold water, down into increasing pressure, into the depth of ooze and slime and old decay. Then up again, back into colour and light. His lungs almost bursting till suddenly he breaks surface, holding in his hand the dripping, precious thing he went to recover. He and it are both coloured now, but they have come back into the light. Down below, where it lay colourless in the dark, he lost his colour, too.
From Miracles by C. S. Lewis
God descends to re-ascend. He comes down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity, down further still – if embryologists are right –to recapitulate in the womb ancient and prehuman phases of life. Down into the very roots and sea-bed of the nature he created. But he goes down to come up again and then brings the whole ruined world up with him. One may think of a diver, first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing in mid-air, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing down into green, warm water, into bleak and cold water, down into increasing pressure, into the depth of ooze and slime and old decay. Then up again, back into colour and light. His lungs almost bursting till suddenly he breaks surface, holding in his hand the dripping, precious thing he went to recover. He and it are both coloured now, but they have come back into the light. Down below, where it lay colourless in the dark, he lost his colour, too.From Miracles by C. S. Lewis
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