SYMBOLS IN THE NATURAL WORLD
Realizing that visible bodies are only symbols of invisible forces, the ancients worshipped the Divine Power through the lower kingdoms of Nature . . . The sages of old studied living things to a point of realization that God is most perfectly understood through a knowledge of His supreme handiwork—animate and inanimate Nature. Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One . . .1
1. From The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall (Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1977), p. LXXXV.