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
expressions 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 being 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 do hinder thee, so that thou dost
not see and hear God.

DISCIPLE

But wherewith shall I hear and see God, forasmuch as he is above Nature
and Creature?

MASTER

Son, when thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before
Nature and Creature; thou art that which God then was; thou art that
whereof he made thy nature and creature. Then thou hearest and seest
even that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before ever thine
own willing or thine own seeing began.

DISCIPLE

What now hinders or keeps me back, so that I cannot come to _that_,
wherewith God is to be seen and heard?

MASTER

Nothing truly but thine own willing, hearing, and seeing do keep thee
back from it, and do hinder thee from coming to this supersensual state.
And it is because thou strivest so against that, out of which thou
thyself art descended and derived, that thou thus breakest thyself off,
with thine own willing, from God's willing, and with thine own seeing
from God's seeing. In as much as in thine own seeing thou dost see in
thine own willing only, and with thine own understanding thou dost
understand but in and according to thine own willing, as the same
stands divided from the Divine Will. This thy willing, moreover, stops
thy hearing, and maketh thee deaf towards God, through thy own thinking
upon terrestrial things, and thy attending to that which is without
thee, and so it brin