m to
get upon its side and so turn the conflict in his favor. It appears that
this manly attitude would have a marvelous inner concord as a result and
outwardly, a remarkable firmness of character. It is not my object to
decide what metaphysical significance the strengthening through mysticism
of the ideal (God in me) may have.

"Take, O soul, not the unworthy and common as a model, for such use and
word will adhere to thee finally as a nature opposed to thine own. By this
means, however, the strong impulse itself towards union with thy nature
and to the return into thy home goes astray. Know that the exalted and
majestic Originator of things, is himself the noblest of all things. Take
then the noble things as a model, in order by that means to get nearer thy
Creator on the path of elective affinity. And know that the noble attaches
itself to the noble and the vulgar to the common." (Fleischer, Herm. a. d.
Seele, p. 18.)

What is to be sown in the new earth is generally called love. A crop of
love is to arise; with love will the new world be saturated; its laws will
be the laws of love. By love a transmutation of the subject is to take
place. One alchemist (quoted in H. A., pp. 133 ff.) writes as follows:

"I find the nature of Divine Love to be a perfect unity and simplicity.
There is nothing more one, undivided, simple, pure, unmixed and
uncompounded than Love....

"In the second place I find Love to be the most perfect and absolute
liberty. Nothing can move Love, but Love; nothing touch Love, but Love;
nor nothing constrain Love, but Love. It is free from all things; itself
only gives laws to itself, and those laws are the laws of Liberty; for
nothing acts more freely than Love, because it always acts from itself,
and is moved by itself, by which prerogatives Love shows itself to be
allied to the Divine Nature, yea, to be God himself.

"Thirdly, Love is all strength and power. Make a diligent search through
Heaven and Earth, and you will find nothing so powerful as Love. What is
stronger than Hell and Death? Yet Love is the triumphant conqueror of
both. What more formidable than the wrath of God? Yet Love overcomes it,
and dissolves and changes it into itself. In a word, nothing can withstand
the prevailing strength of Love: it is the strength of Mount Zion, which
can never be moved.

"In the fourth place: Love is of a transmuting and transforming nature.
The great effect of Love is to turn all things into its