with you, to work at this very art. [I hardly need to
mention the duty under oath, but will only call attention to the group of
the three virtues of the newly entering: attentiveness, silence,
fidelity.] Further thou must completely bide the definite time and year of
it, in all fidelity and patience indefatigable, until thou succeedest in
making this oil as well, and preserve it in the beautiful snow-white
alabaster box of consummate nature, and art as fit and perfect as thy
instructress."

I continue in the earlier series of forms. Jane Leade is required by
wisdom to follow her. "But all of a sudden I was surprised by a mighty
enemy, who pressed me hard while he accused and complained that I was
breaking the laws of nature, to which I was still bound because I had an
external body, for whose elemental wants I must take reasonable care, ...
as all my neighbors in the world did, who were under the rule of the grand
monarch of the [worldly calculating] reason, under whose scepter
everything must mortify what lives in the sensual animal life...." [The
man who lives only for the satisfaction of physical needs cannot serve our
purpose.... There is a higher life than that to which millions are chained
like an animal. To this higher life the Master is to devote himself, and
to it he is metaphorically initiated in the admission. Common nature, the
prince of this world, strives against these requirements.] "Yes," says the
prince of the earthly life, "how wilt thou turn aside from my laws and
throw thy brother's yoke from thy neck?" Leade turns to her mother,
Wisdom, who promises her to take God's advice how the enemy could be
driven away. The proof should be that they were traitors to the crown, to
honor, and to the lordship of the lamb; they would soon be handed over to
justice. (L. G. B., I, pp. 27 ff.) [Cf. on the one hand, in connection
with "accused and complained," think of the murderer of the royal
architect. As this is the inner man, both belong together. The "prince of
this world" turns the tables on his accusation; psychologically quite
justifiably.]

After various exhortations Jane Leade receives from Wisdom a book which
she, Wisdom, must read from, "in order to explain to you one letter after
another, [Spelling.], especially you do not yet know the number which
makes up your new name. And as long as you do not see that, what kind of
right and title can you advance for the rest of the entire mastery that is
developed