The Summary of Physics Restored

87The Sun is not the eye of the universe, as some of the ancients thought, but the eye of the Universe’s creator. Through it he looks perceptibly upon his perceptible creatures, pours the caressing rays of his love into them, and presents himself visibly to them. For perceptible Nature would scarcely have recognised an imperceptible author. He therefore wished to fashion for himself and for us so noble a body, clothed in his glory, whose rays, nearest to divinity, are spirit and life.