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No. We have been bound by limits that we can never transcend. God is far too great to be comprehended of Himself. However, we are not cut off from Him; His mercy does not fail to reach us. Although we cannot know Him directly, He has allowed a way for His eternal love to reach us, for His attributes to be manifested in His creation. It is His attributes, not His essence, that we can know; and thereby is He known (137:11) The truth that we know God through His attributes, but not in His essence, will become clearer if we consider, by way of analogy, a blade of grass. A blade of grass can never know the inner workings of the sun. According to its limited capacity as ordained by God, however, a blade of grass can benefit from the life-giving rays of the sun, and can manifest the qualities of those rays in its growth. The blade of grass does not know the sun directly, but it can experience and become imbued with its qualities; thus, what the blade of grass knows of the sun are its rays, its qualities, but not its essence. The blade of grass cannot go to the sun, neither can the sun descend in its essence into the blade of grass. Neither the nature of the sun nor the nature of the blade of grass would permit this
(137:12)
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