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Homer and Moses
 
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Homer and Moses

When Homer sang of the Grecian gods, Olympus was


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dark, but through his verse the gods became alive in a nation's belief. Pagan worship began with muscularity, but the law of Sinai lifted thought into the song of David. Moses advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and il- lustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind.