Bathing in Walden Pond
Thoreau was a transcendentalist, one who believed in the simplicity and intimacy of becoming one with nature. While lying back in the pond, he was able to relax, escape and fully immerse himself in the nature of God, or in God’s nature. As a “worshipper of Aurora” (Thoreau 1027), the goddess of the dawn, Thoreau could both physically and spiritually, in his “religious exercise” (1027), experience the “awakening hour” (1027) of the morning sunrise. His “religious exercise” (1027), I believe, was an exercise releasing old thoughts of reason and understanding, and communing in the essence of divine nature, self, and God, as Thoreau states that, “ the pond has a special kind of spiritual purity”, calling it “God’s Drop.”
Thoreau was a transcendentalist, one who believed in the simplicity and intimacy of becoming one with nature. While lying back in the pond, he was able to relax, escape and fully immerse himself in the nature of God, or in God’s nature. As a “worshipper of Aurora” (Thoreau 1027), the goddess of the dawn, Thoreau could both physically and spiritually, in his “religious exercise” (1027), experience the “awakening hour” (1027) of the morning sunrise. His “religious exercise” (1027), I believe, was an exercise releasing old thoughts of reason and understanding, and communing in the essence of divine nature, self, and God, as Thoreau states that, “ the pond has a special kind of spiritual purity”, calling it “God’s Drop.”