our knowing and supposing, but in Power.

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If we did not know half so much, and were more like children, and had
but a brotherly mind and goodwill towards one another, and lived like
children of one mother, and as branches of one tree, taking our Sap all
from one Root, we should be far more holy than we are.

12

Knowledge serves only to this end, viz., to know that we have lost the
Divine Power in Adam, and are now become inclined to sin; that we have
evil properties in us, and that doing evil pleaseth not God; so that
with our knowledge we learn to do right. Now if we have the Power of God
in us, and desire with all our hearts to act and to live aright, then
our knowledge is but our sport, or matter of pleasure, wherein we
rejoice.

13

For true knowledge is the manifestation of the Spirit of God through the
Eternal Wisdom. He knoweth what he will in his children; he sheweth his
wisdom and wonders by his children, as the earth putteth forth her
various flowers.

14

Now if we dwell with one another, like humble children, in the Spirit of
Christ, are rejoicing at the gift or knowledge of another, who would
judge or condemn us? Who judgeth or condemneth the birds in the woods
that praise the Lord of all Beings with various voices, every one in
its own essence? Doth the Spirit of God reprove them for not bringing
their voices into one harmony? Doth not the melody of them all proceed
from his Power, and do they not sport before him?

15

Those men therefore that strive and wrangle about the knowledge and will
of God, and despise one another on that account, are more foolish than
the birds in the woods, and the wild beasts that have no true
understanding. They are more unprofitable in the sight of the holy God
than the flowers of the field, which stand still in quiet submission to
the Spirit of God, and suffer him to manifest the Divine Wisdom and
Power through them.

16

All Christian Religion consisteth wholly on this, to learn _to know
ourselves_; whence we came, and what we are; how we are gone forth from
the Unity into dissension, wickedness, and unrighteousness; how we have
awakened and stirred up these evils in us; and how we may be delivered
from them again, and recover our original blessedness.

17

_First_; How we were in the Unity, when we were the Children of God in
Adam before he fell. _Secondly_; How we are now in dissension and
disunion, in strife and contrariety. _Thir