This text commences with the cloud in creation functioning as a symbol of the transcendence of God and the means by which he creates. It produces various "cloud" examples from the Old Testament and the New Testament section shows how the pre-incarnate Christ is equal to the Father in glory.

This book commences with the cloud in creation, functioning as a symbol of the trancendence of God and the means by which he creates, and continues with the descent of God in the cloud in making covenant with Abraham and Moses. Otto describes the cloud leading Israel out of Egypt and providing for her physically and spiritually, culminating in the great theophany on Sinai.