ABSTRACT
Did Isaiah really see the Lord before the angel flew to him? Was Isaiah’s sanctification as a prophet accomplished only when the angel burned the brink of his lips with glowing coal?
Isaiah saw nothing before the angel left the Lord; he intimated the Lord, he sensed the shudder and mysteries of the eternal, which was still covered by
angels’ wings. It is the situation of the believer that Scripture describes: he who senses the great mystery, to him a solution is presented, but his Father conceals himself in the cover of a cloud. The believer becomes a prophet only when an angel leaves the Lord: “when a tip of the mystery is lifted,” as the people pronounce it in profound symbolic words. For the soaking in divine breath does not occur in the consecration of the lips, but in viewing the unconcealed divine being; and the great end, the utopian rays of the star, will rise when all angels withdraw from God, and He reveals Himself, without cover or mediator, in “mystic democracy” as the most intrepid certainty and figure.
