much beyond all price and value, and whereabout the
seat and abode of it might be in human nature, with the entire process
of the discovery and bringing it forth to light.

The Master said to him: This then we will discourse about at our next
conference, as God shall reveal the same to us by his Spirit, which is
a searcher of All Things. And if thou dost remember well what I answered
thee in the beginning, thou shalt soon come thereby to understand that
hidden mystical wisdom of God; which none of the wise men of the world
know; and where the Mine thereof is to be found in thee shall be given
thee from above to discern. Be silent therefore in thy spirit, and watch
unto prayer; that, when we meet again to-morrow in the love of Christ,
thy mind may be disposed for finding that noble Pearl, which to the
World appears _Nothing_, but to the Children of Wisdom is _All Things_.

DIALOGUE II

The Disciple being very earnest to be more fully instructed how he might
arrive at the supersensual life, and how, having found all things, he
might come to be a king over all God's works, came again to his Master
next morning, having watched the night in prayer, that he might be
disposed to receive and apprehend the instructions that should be given
him by a divine irradiation upon his mind. And the Disciple, after a
little space of silence, bowed himself, and thus brake forth.

DISCIPLE

O my Master, my Master! I have now endeavoured to recollect my soul in
the presence of God, and to cast myself into the Deep where no creature
doth nor can dwell; that I might hear the voice of my Lord speaking in
me, and be initiated into that high life whereof I heard yesterday such
great and amazing things. But alas I neither hear nor see as I should.
There is still such a partition wall in me which beats back the heavenly
sounds in their passage, and obstructs the entrance of that light
whereby alone divine objects are discoverable, as till this be gone I
can have but small hopes, yea, even none at all, of arriving at those
glorious attainments which you pressed me to, or of entering into _that
where no creature dwells_, and which you call _Nothing_ and _All
Things_. Wherefore be so kind as to inform me what is required on my
part, that this partition which hinders may be broken or removed.

MASTER

This partition is the creaturely will in thee, and this can be broken by
nothing but the Grace of self-denial, which is the entrance into