e Light of
it, which is my reason?

MASTER

Cease but from thine own activity, steadfastly fixing thine Eye upon
_one Point_, and with a strong purpose relying upon the promised Grace
of God in Christ, to bring thee out of thy Darkness into his marvellous
Light. For this end gather in all thy thoughts, and by faith press into
the Centre, laying hold upon the Word of God, which is infallible, and
which hath called thee. Be thou then obedient to this call, and be
silent before the Lord, sitting alone with him in thy inmost and most
hidden cell, thy mind being centrally united in itself, and attending
his Will in the patience of hope. So shall thy Light break forth as the
Morning, and after the redness thereof is passed, the Sun himself which
thou waitest for, shall arise unto thee, and under his most healing
wings thou shalt greatly rejoice; ascending and descending in his bright
and salutiferous beams. Behold this is the true Supersensual Ground of
Life.

DISCIPLE

I believe it indeed to be even so. But will not this destroy Nature?
Will not the Light of Nature in me be extinguished by this greater
Light? Or, must not the outward Life hence perish, with the earthly body
which I carry?

MASTER

By no means at all. It is true, the evil Nature will be destroyed by it;
but by the destruction thereof you can be no loser, but very much a
gainer. The Eternal Bond of Nature is the same afterward as before; and
the properties are the same. So that Nature hereby is only advanced and
meliorated, and the Light thereof, or human Reason, by being kept within
its due bounds, and regulated by a superior Light, is only made useful.

DISCIPLE

Pray, therefore, let me know how this inferior Light ought to be used by
me; how it is to be kept within its due bounds; and after what manner
the superior Light doth regulate it and ennoble it.

MASTER

Know then, my beloved son, that if thou wilt keep the Light of Nature
within its own proper bounds, and make use thereof in just subordination
to the Light of God, thou must consider that there are in thy soul two
_Wills_, an _inferior_ Will, which is for driving thee to Things without
and below; and a _superior_ Will, which is for drawing thee to Things
within and above. These two Wills are now set together, as it were back
to back, and in a direct contrariety to each other; but in the beginning
it was not so. For this contraposition of the soul in these two is no
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