Faith is the door to mysteries.What the bodily eyes are to sensory objects,
the same is faith to the eyes of the intellect that gaze at hidden treasures.
Even as we have two bodily eyes, we possess two eyes of the soul,
as the Fathers say : yet both have not the same operation with respect
to divine vision.
With one we see the hidden glory of God which is concealed in the
natures of things, that is to say , we behold His might, His wisdom, and
His eternal providence for us which we understand by the magnitude
of His governance on our behalf.
With the same eye we also behold the heavenly orders of our fellow
servants. With the other we behold the glory of His holy nature.
When God is pleased to admit us to spiritual mysteries, He opens
wide the sea of faith in our minds.
Saint Isaac the Syrian
( Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, Homily 46 )
