The human soul may see God as veiled in the incarnation, tho we are
told that none can look on Him (in His full glory) and live:
Lighting by “glow,” or by the reflection of rays from a dull
white surface, is becoming more and more common. According to
the writer of an article in _The American Magazine_, this
was first done on a large scale at the Chicago Exposition in
1893, where it was adopted by Luther Stieringer. The cafe of
the Adams House in Boston is lighted by a domed ceiling that
glows gently and evenly with the reflected light of hundreds
of invisible incandescent bulbs hidden around its base. In the
great blue dome of the great pillared reading-room of Columbia
University Library--the noblest educational building in the
country--hangs what is locally known as “the mothball,” a huge
globe of ground glass. It is perhaps a hundred feet above the
floor, yet at night, when four calcium lights are turned on it,
its subdued, reflected radiance fills the whole hall.
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