Gifts of Heaven · Volume 1 · Chapter 58

Preface to the writing "The Fly"

3rd September 1840

[1] It is good to direct one's emotional eyes to so many things more often and to perceive My love and wisdom in them – no matter how small the object to be considered! For there is always something infinite in it. And so it is also worthy of a spiritual view, since everything in which the infinite is hidden is an atom from Me, in which an eternal being prevails.

[2] If I now let an unheeded fly buzz something to you in a little song, think that even this small animal does not belong to the uncounted. For, if the atoms of light and the monads of ether are known to Me in their exact numbers through all infinities and eternities, how can a fly not be, for the formation of which more than a whole billion atoms are needed!

[3] So we let a fly hum a little!