Time. If thou now
sufferest thyself to be always looking into Nature, and the Things of
Time, it will be impossible for thee ever to arrive at the Unity, which
thou wishest for. Remember this, and be upon thy watch. Give not thy
mind leave to enter into nor to fill itself with that which is without
thee; neither look thou backward upon thyself; but quit thyself, and
look forward to Christ. Let not thy Left Eye deceive thee by making
continually one representation after another, and stirring up thereby an
earnest longing in the self-propriety; but let thy right eye command
this left, and attract it to thee. Yea it is better to pluck it quite
out and to cast it from thee, than to suffer it to proceed forth without
restraint into Nature, and to follow its own lusts. However there is for
this no necessity, since both eyes may become very useful, if ordered
aright, and both the Divine and Natural Light may in the soul subsist
together, and be of mutual service to each other. But never shalt thou
arrive at the Unity of Vision or Uniformity of Will, but by entering
fully into the Will of our Saviour Christ, and therein bringing the Eye
of Time into the Eye of Eternity, and then descending by means of these
united through the Light of God into the Light of Nature.

DISCIPLE

So then if I can but enter into the Will of my Lord, and abide therein,
I am safe, and may both attain to the Light of God in the Spirit of my
soul and see with the Eye of God, that is, the Eye of Eternity in the
Eternal Ground of my Will; and may also at the same time enjoy the Light
of this World nevertheless, not degrading but adorning the Light of
Nature, and beholding as with the Eye of Eternity things Eternal, so
with the Eye of Nature, things Natural, and both contemplating therein
the Wonders of God, and sustaining also thereby the life of my outward
vehicle or body.

MASTER

It is very right. Thou hast well understood, and thou desirest now to
enter into the Will of God, and to abide therein as in the Supersensual
Ground of Light and Life, where thou mayst in his Light behold both Time
and Eternity, and bring all the wonders created of God for the exterior
into the interior life, and so eternally rejoice in them to the glory of
Christ; the partition of thy Creaturely Will being broken down and the
Eye of thy Spirit simplified in and through the Eye of God manifesting
itself in the Centre of thy Life. Let this be so now, for it is God's
Will.