them in My Great Love, and with tenderness I pour new life into their hearts that they may awaken in God.

Look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your Faith. So be it. Amen.

Through Epinetti and Micah, the Saints of the Counsel, unto the Elect of God. Amen, Amen. So be it. Amen.

THE disciple said to his master: Sir, how may I come to the supersensual life, so that I may see God, and may hear God speak?

The master answered and said: Son, when thou canst throw thyself into THAT, where no creature dwelleth, though it be for a moment, then thou hearest what God speaketh.

Disciple. Is that where no creature dwelleth near a hand; or is it afar off?

Master. It is in thee. And if thou canst, my son, for a while but cease from all thy thinking and willing, then thou shalt hear the unspeakable words of God.

Disciple. How can I hear Him speak, when I stand still from thinking and willing?

Master. When thou standest still from the thinking of self, and the willing of self; when both thy intellect and will are quiet, and passive to the impressions of the Eternal Word and Spirit; and when thy soul is winged up and above that which is temporal, the outward senses, and the imagination locked up by holy abstraction,—then the eternal hearing, seeing and speaking will be revealed in thee; and so God heareth and seeth through thee, being now the organ of His Spirit; and so God speaketh in thee, and whispereth to thy spirit, and thy spirit heareth His voice.

Blessed art thou, therefore, if thou canst stand still from self-thinking and self-willing, and canst stop the wheel of thy imagination and senses; forasmuch as hereby thou mayest arrive at length to see the great salvation of God, being made capable of all manner of divine sensations and heavenly communications. Since it is nought indeed but thine own hearing and willing that doth hinder thee, so that thou dost not see and hear God.

—From the first two pages of The Supersensual Life, or The Life Which Is Above Sense. By Jacob Boehme, the God-taught Philosopher. The Sun Publishing Co.