Anything divine must come to us in worldly clothing, and so it comes to us altered. The divine is like rain striking the earth, and all our efforts at godliness are therefore muddy—all but those few seconds of complete inundation, the moments that the mystics describe, when we are nothing but rain.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Anything divine must come to us in worldly clothing, and so it comes to us altered. The divine is like rain striking the earth, and all our efforts at godliness are therefore muddy—all but those few seconds of complete inundation, the moments that the mystics describe, when we are nothing but rain." in the context of "Kim Stanley Robinson, Book 9: "Nsara", The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.