wer of Love still is undeniably superior to them all. And as
the Throne of God, who sits upon the Heaven of Heavens, is higher than
the highest of them, even so must Love also be, which fills them all,
and comprehends them all.

And whereas I said of the _Greatness of Love that it is greater than the
very Manifestation of Godhead in the light of the Divine Essence_; that
is also true. For Love enters even into that where the Godhead is not
manifested in this glorious light, and where God may be said not to
dwell. And entering thereinto, Love begins to manifest to the soul the
light of the Godhead; and thus is the darkness broken through, and the
wonders of the new creation successively manifested.

Thus shalt thou be brought to understand really and fundamentally what
is the virtue and the power of Love, and what the height and greatness
thereof is; how that is indeed the _virtue of all virtues_, though it be
invisible, and as a _Nothing_ in appearance, inasmuch as it is the
worker of all things, and a powerful _vital energy_ passing through all
virtues and powers natural and supernatural, and the _power of all
powers_, nothing being able to let or obstruct the _Omnipotence_ of
Love, or to resist its invincible penetrating might, which passes
through the whole Creation of God, inspecting and governing all things.

And in that I said; _It is higher than the highest and greater than the
greatest_; thou mayst hereby perceive as in a glimpse the supreme height
and greatness of _Omnipotent Love_ which infinitely transcends all that
human sense and reason can reach to. The highest Archangel and greatest
Powers of Heaven, are in comparison of it, but as dwarfs. Nothing can be
conceived higher and greater in God himself, by the very highest and
greatest of his creatures. There is such infinity in it as comprehends
and surpasses all the divine attributes.

But in that it was also said, _Its greatness is greater than God_; that
likewise is very true in the sense wherein it was spoken. For Love can
there enter where God dwelleth not, since the most high God dwelleth not
in darkness, but in the Light, the hellish darkness being put under his
feet. Thus, for instance, when our beloved Lord Jesus Christ was in
Hell, Hell was not the mansion of God or of Christ, Hell sees not God,
neither was it with God, nor could it be at all with him; Hell stood in
the darkness and anxiety of Nature, and no light of the Divine Majesty
did there