tly in their several spheres,
without confounding Things Heavenly and Things Earthly, or breaking the
golden Chain of Wisdom, it will be necessary, my child, in the first
place to wait for and attend the Supernatural and Divine Light, as this
superior Light appointed to govern the day, rising in the true East,
which is the Centre of Paradise, and the great Light breaking forth as
out of the darkness within thee, through a pillar of fire and
thunder-clouds, and thereby reflecting also upon the inferior Light of
Nature a sort of image of itself, whereby only it can be kept in its due
subordination; that which is _below_ being made subservient to that
which is _above_, and that which is _without_ to that which is _within_.
Thus there will be no danger of interfering, but all will go right, and
everything abide in its proper sphere.

DISCIPLE

Therefore without Reason or the Light of Nature be sanctified in my
soul, and illuminated by this superior Light, as from the central East
of the holy Light-World, by the Eternal and Intellectual Sun, I perceive
there will always be some confusion, and I shall never be able to manage
aright either what concerneth Time or Eternity. But I must always be at
a loss, or break the links of Wisdom's Chain.

MASTER

It is even so as thou hast said. All is confusion if thou hast no more
than the dim Light of Nature, or unsanctified and unregenerated Reason
to guide thee by, and if only the Eye of Time be opened in thee, which
cannot pierce beyond its own limit. Wherefore seek the Fountain of
Light, waiting in the deep ground of thy soul for the rising there of
the Sun of Righteousness, whereby the Light of Nature in thee, with the
properties thereof, will be made to shine seven times brighter than
ordinary. For it shall receive the stamp, image and impression of the
Supersensual and Supernatural, so that the sensual and rational life
will hence be brought into the most perfect order and harmony.

DISCIPLE

But how am I to wait for the rising of this glorious Sun, and how am I
to seek in the Centre this Fountain of Light, which may enlighten me
throughout and bring my properties into perfect harmony? I am in Nature,
as I said before, and which way shall I pass through Nature, and the
light thereof, so that I may come into the Supernatural and Supersensual
ground whence this true light, which is the Light of Minds, doth arise;
and this without the destruction of my nature, or quenching th