The Rainbow

Who were the sons of God? Was not Jesus the only begotten

Son? Was not Adam the only man created from God? Yet there were

men not begotten by Adam. Who were these, and whence did they

come? They too must derive from God. Had God many offspring,

besides Adam and besides Jesus, children whose origin the

children of Adam cannot recognize? And perhaps these children,

these sons of God, had known no expulsion, no ignominy of the

fall.

These came on free feet to the daughters of men, and saw they

were fair, and took them to wife, so that the women conceived

and brought forth men of renown. This was a genuine fate. She

moved about in the essential days, when the sons of God came in

unto the daughters of men.

Nor would any comparison of myths destroy her passion in the

knowledge. Jove had become a bull, or a man, in order to love a

mortal woman. He had begotten in her a giant, a hero.

Very good, so he had, in Greece. For herself, she was no

Grecian woman. Not Jove nor Pan nor any of those gods, not even

Bacchus nor Apollo, could come to her. But the Sons of God who

took to wife the daughters of men, these were such as should

take her to wife.

She clung to the secret hope, the aspiration. She lived a

dual life, one where the facts of daily life encompassed

everything, being legion, and the other wherein the facts of

daily life were superseded by the eternal truth. So utterly did

she desire the Sons of God should come to the daughters of men;

and she believed more in her desire and its fulfilment than in

the obvious facts of life. The fact that a man was a man, did

not state his descent from Adam, did not exclude that he was

also one of the unhistoried, unaccountable Sons of God. As yet,

she was confused, but not denied.

Again she heard the Voice: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,

than for a rich man to enter into heaven."

But it was explained, the needle's eye was a little gateway

for foot passengers, through which the great, humped camel with

his load could not possibly squeeze himself: or perhaps at a

great risk, if he were a little camel, he might get through. For

one could not absolutely exclude the rich man from heaven, said

the Sunday school teachers.

It pleased her also to know, that in the East one must use

hyperbole, or else remain unheard; because the Eastern man must

see a thing swelling to fill all heaven, or dwindled to a mere

nothing, before he is suitably impressed. She immediately

sympathized with this Eastern mind.