r power at
all. I have only the capacity of a child--of letting myself be used by
God, as pleases Him. My life appears natural. I am encompassed with
infirmities. My health is greatly impaired. My infirmities are a
balance-wheel, a counterpoise to exaltation. Yet life is ever flowing,
without any thought of the means of sustaining it, as we live in the
air, without thinking of the air we breathe.

STATE OF A SOUL RE-UNITED TO GOD.

In reply to your enquiry, my dear children, concerning my state, I
would say, that exteriorly, I am open, simple, childlike. My interior
resembles a drop of water, mingling and lost in the ocean, and no more
discerning itself,--the sea not only surrounding, but absorbing it. In
this divine immensity, the soul discerns and enjoys all objects in God.
All is darkness and obscurity in respect to itself; all is light on the
part of God. Thus, _God is all_ to me. This has been my state more
than thirty years, although in latter years I have realized greater
depths in these experiences. Think of the bottomless sea; what is
thrown therein, continues sinking, without ever reaching the end. Thus
divine love is the weight of the soul, that sinks it deeper and deeper
in God. "God is Love, and he who dwells in love, dwells in God, and
God in him." O immensity!

Jesus Christ, the embodiment of truth and love, has explained the
Scriptures by fulfilling them. So when the soul has passed into God,
the Word is fulfilled in the soul, as it was in Christ. O Love! thou
art thyself the pure, naked, simple truth, which is expressed, not by
me, but by thyself, through me. Amen.

CONCISE VIEW OF THE INTERIOR WAY.

_The soul seeks God in faith not by the reasonings of the mind and
labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God
responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then
puts the soul in a passive state, where he accomplishes all, causing
great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and
finally by pure Love._

What do we understand by the Interior way? It is to seek the kingdom
of God within us. Luke 17, 21. We find this kingdom only where God
has placed it, _within the soul_. It becomes necessary, then, to
withdraw the eyes of the soul from external landmarks and observations,
which man, in the pride of reason, has located around it, and rest the
eye in faith, on the Word of the Lord,--"_Seek and ye shall find