*IMAGE/*IMAGES - also see FACE, IDOL
The worship of visible gods (idols) was contrary to the law of nature. For man has not been permitted to see the image of God. The miracles of our God have been worked since the first day when the universe was created; they take place every day and at every moment. Whoever seeth them not is deprived of one of the fairest gifts of life. If man desires salvation, then they must destoy all the idols they have made. Don't strive to see the Eternal Spirit with your eyes but to endeavor to feel him in your heart. (Lost Years, p223-226) It is a law of nature that God can't be seen because He transcends any image since He is Self Empting which gives way (energy and existence) to creation and evolution. (Randy)
Any image harkens after its archetype and seeks to resemble it more closely. Since Adam and Eve were programmed to be like God, it is not surprising that they wanted to pluck the fruit of the tree of knowledge. (Beginning, p25,27)
Those who are mad live by images that are illusory. We live by the image that has been placed in us. We live by him who has imaged himself forth in us. (Contemplation, p134)
The lamp throws my shadow on the floor. The shadow and I are one. If the shadow were not, I would nott be. If I were not, God would not be. The truth is simple. (Contemplation, p134)
"Let us create man in our image, after our likeness (Gen 1:26)." But we choose to see/focus/respect/pursue God's power (ie. of the cosmos) rather than His humility (ie. servant / sustainer in the bonding of atoms). (Randy)
God made man in his image that persons might choose to be like Him [and Christ] in spirit, motive, disposition, spiritual beauty, and humility. (Getting Straight About the Bible by Horace R. Weaver, p81)
Forbidding the making of images, with the assertion that God is not like any of these things. (Zen, p26)
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. (Soup, p82)
Christians are more and more aware that all analogies and images referring to God are inadequate, for divine nature is without analogy, imageless, ineffable and full of mystery. Experience is grounded in the infinitude of
the divine nature itself. (Buddhism, p173)