9 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

10 The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.

“The flood,” i.e., all that is included in the world of the Negative as in the beginning the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

11 The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

This Psalm mystically speaks of all those operations of the Land which the ungodly pay no need to (Ps. XXV11I: 5). It is a Psalm of Initiation.

“The Beauty of holiness" (verse 2). Holiness is that symmetry which we call Beauty. The perfectioning of character. The whole Psalm is highly mystical: Upon many waters (verse 4) = peoples and nations (Rev. XVII: 15). Unicorn (verse 6) = strength derived from intellect, and mountains = the highest knowledge; cedars may suggest materialism — because ϋλς = wood. The connection of verses 5 and 6 is then plain. The material knowledge is based on spiritual facts, just as trees grow on mountains. Cedars are the grandest growth of hylé or material knowledge, but the spiritual is as much higher as the peaks of mountains are above the trees.

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