The shortest revelation in the corpus and the one Neville values most highly. Going to bed fully convinced of the reality of God, having experienced it, he asked him as you would a person: why did you make this? What is the purpose of it all? Not how - that isn't my concern - but why. And from the depths of his soul one word came in response, and that one word was hatching, just hatching. The only purpose of the whole vast universe is for hatching out sons of God. His mind went at once to Blake's Gates of Paradise, where an egg is drawn and broken and a winged cherub comes out of it under the caption: at length for hatching ripe he breaks the shell - a creature you could not have known was in there while the shell was whole. He sets Romans 8 beside it, the whole creation groans waiting for the unveiling of the sons of God, and draws the practical consequence: being sons in the process of becoming, we are invited to imitate him as dear children and hatch out our dreams as he is hatching out his. So tonight you can hatch out a dream - want a home, dwell in it; want to dispose of one, keep out of it mentally; want to be married, wear the ring as this lady wore the bracelet. Your idea is an egg: warm it by accepting it and let it hatch, because it contains within itself all the necessary power to express itself. About twelve lectures. At 1821 the same words come as a voice - the whole vast world is only for hatching. At 1807 the shell being broken is the birth from the skull. At 1131 the variant is for hatching ripe he cracked his skull. At 1451 it is joined to the intervals of M560: no two eggs of different species have the same time for hatching.
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Blake, The Gates of Paradise | At length for hatching ripe he breaks the shell
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The only purpose of the whole vast universe is for hatching out sons of God
Why did you make this? What is the purpose of it all?
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You want to get married, be happily married? Wear the ring as this lady wore the bracelet, and be as persistent in the wearing of it as she was in the wearing of the bracelet. Whatever you want, hatch it out!
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And then from the depths of your soul one word comes in response to your inquiry, and that one word is “hatching,” just “hatching.” For hatching the whole thing was made.
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