Emerson versus Moses

The revelation at Mt Sinai is diminished down into anthropocentricity, if not biography, as Emerson walked across Boston commons:

“Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.” – Nature (1836)