O King of the nations, and their Desire; the chief Corner-stone, who makest two both one: come and save mankind whom Thou formedst of clay.
With our excellent gift of self-deception, we project that for which we long most onto that which is more readily available. We complicate our lives, masking our true happiness with something that we can understand better and see more clearly until the illusion becomes more ingrained as reality in our lives than the truth.
Our Chief End is God Himself and it is for His Transcendent life that we truly long: eternal light, eternal love, eternal peace, eternal joy...
Thus God is the desire of all people albeit confused with the love of created things. God is not of confusion but of truth and our existence is built on His. God becomes Man to make immanent that which is transcendent: transcendence becomes immanent, human nature and divine nature unite in one person to give some tangibility to the Desire of Humanity and make credible the promise of the fulfillment of that Desire in Him which cannot be completed until the Day of days.
Light becomes Clay so that Clay may become Light.
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