Part of the difficulty in "Seeing God" is that most of us are blinded by juvenile impressions. For the most part we have been conditioned to comprehend God very much the same way Cecille B. D'mille had us perceive Moses in his epic movie The Ten Commandments. For the 40-something crowd out there, how many of you, when the personality of Moses is mentioned, imagine in your mind's eye that you are beholding the likeness of Charlton Heston?

It is true, that a godly-individual may invoke spiritual inspiration merely by gazing upon his countenance. But he isn't God. There is no corporal representation of God on earth. One of the greatest sages of Israel, Rabbi Akiva, a contemporary of Aristotle, was once traveling through the streets of Rome. He walked into the marketplace and was recognized by a Roman merchant who was peddling various graven images. The patron, obviously proud of his wares, asked the venerable sage if he could see the rabbi's god(s). Undaunted, the rabbi brought the fellow out of his stall and into the street, beckoning him to lie down on the ground and gaze at the sun. The merchant exclaimed "no one can look and the sun and not get damaged." Rabbi Akiva responded, "If you cannot even gaze upon one of our God's messengers, how do you expect to behold our God Himself?"