whiteness of the light of God’s wisdom, has suddenly, as it were, been broken up into these various colours of the spectrum, and exhibited it in its component parts. The angels had seen but the whiteness; they are now seeing all the shades, all the varieties of colour—the variegated wisdom of God. * * * The second principle is that the Church is the medium through which this wisdom becomes manifest. The Church is a kind of prism that is placed in the path of the light to break up the whiteness