The Way to Christ

speak the hidden Mystical Wisdom of God , which God ordained before the World unto our Glory : Which none of the Princes of this World knew : For had they known it , they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. But , as it is written , Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard , neither hath it entered into, the Heart of Mah,‘ to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his , Spirit : For the Spirit searcheth all Things, yea, the deep Things of God. For what Man knoweth the Things of a Man save the Spirit of a Man which is in him ? even so the Things of God knoweth no Man, but the Spirit of God. Now, we have received, not the Spirit of the World, but the Spirit which is of God ; that we might know the Things which are freely given us of God. Which Things also we speak, not in the Words which Man's Wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual Things with spiritual. But the natural Man receiveth not the Things of the Spirit of God: For they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth, or discerneth, all Things . — i Corinthians ii. 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15.

OF THE

SUPER-SENSUAL LIFE,

OR THE

Life which is above Sense .

In a Dialogue between a Scholar or Disciple and Jiis Master,

T HE Scholar said to his Master; How may I come to the Super- sensual Life , that I may see God and hear him speak ?

'• His Master said, When thou canst throw thyself for a Moment into that where no Creature dwelleth, then thou hearest what Got) speaketh.

2 . THE SCHOLAR. — Is That near at Hand, or far off?

The Master. — It is in thee, and if thou canst for a while cease from all thy Thinking and Willing , thou shalt hear unspeakable Words of Gto.

3. The Scholar. — How can I hear when I stand still from
Thinking and Willing ?

The Master. — When thou standest still from the Thinking and Willing of Self then the eternal Hearmg, Seeing , and Speaking , will be revealed in thee; and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own Hearing, Willing, and Seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

4. The Scholar. — Wherewithal shall I hear and see God ; seeing he is above Nature and Creature ?

The Master. — When thou art quiet or silent , then thou art That which God was before Nature and Creature , and whereof he made thy Nature and Creature ; then thou hearest and seest with That wherewith God saw and heard in thee before thy own Willing, Seeing, and Hearing began.

5. The Scholar. — What hindereth or keepeth me back that I cannot come to T/iat ?

• * The Master. — Thy own Willing, Hearing, and Seeing; and because thou strivest against That out of which thou art come, thou breakest thyself off with thy own Willing from (foci's Willing, and with thy own Seeing thou seest in thy own Willing only, and thy Willing stoppeth thy Hearing with thy own thinking of

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earthly natural Things , and bringeth thee into a Qround-oi essential State, and darkeneth thee with that which thou Wiliest, so that thou canst not come to That which is Supernatural and Super-sensual,

6. THE Scholar. — S eeing I am in Nature, how may I come through Nature into the Super-sensual Qround, without destroying Nature ?

The Master. — Three Things are requisite here ; the first is, thou must resign thy Will to God, and sink thyself down to the Ground in his Mercy. The second is, thou must hate thy own Will, and not do that whereto thy own Will driveth thee. The • third is, thou must submit thyself under the Cross, that thou mayest be able to bear the Temptations of Nature and Creature. If thou dost so, God will speak into thee, and bring thy resigned Will into himself, into the Supernatural Qround-, and then tjhop shalt hear what the Lord speaketh in thee. ' *'

7. The Scholar. — If I should do thus, I must forsake the

World and my Life too. *