m, and in Whom are All Things. By this means thou
shalt come to hear and see God; and after this earthly life is ended to
see with the Eye of Eternity all the Wonders of God and of Nature, and
more particularly those which shall be wrought by thee in the flesh, or
all that the Spirit of God shall have given thee to labour out for
thyself and thy neighbour, or all that the Eye of Reason enlightened
from above, may at any time have manifested to thee. Delay not therefore
to enter in by this Gate, which if thou seest in the Spirit, as some
highly favoured souls have seen it, thou seest in the Supersensual
Ground _all that God is and can do_; thou seest also therewith, as one
hath said who was taken thereinto, _through Heaven, Hell, and Earth; and
through the Essence of all Essences_. Whosoever findeth it, hath found
all that he can desire. Here is the Virtue and Power of the Love of God
displayed. Here is the Height and Depth, here is the Breadth and Length
thereof manifested, as ever the capacity of thy soul can contain. By
this thou shalt come into that Ground out of which all Things are
originated, and in which they subsist; and in it thou shalt reign over
all God's Works, as a Prince of God.

DISCIPLE

Pray tell me, dear Master, where dwelleth it _in Man_?

MASTER

Where Man dwelleth not: there hath it its seat in Man.

DISCIPLE

Where is that in a Man, when Man dwelleth not in himself?

MASTER

It is the resigned Ground of a Soul to which nothing cleaveth.

DISCIPLE

Where is the Ground in any Soul, to which there will nothing stick? Or
where is that which abideth and dwelleth not in something?

MASTER

It is the Centre of Rest and Motion in the resigned Will of a truly
contrite Spirit, which is Crucified to the World. This Centre of the
Will is impenetrable consequently to the World, the Devil, and Hell.
Nothing in all the World can enter into it, or adhere to it, because the
Will is dead with Christ unto the World, but quickened with him in the
Centre thereof, after his blessed Image. Here it is where Man dwelleth
not, and where no Self abideth or can abide.

DISCIPLE

O where is this naked Ground of the Soul void of all Self? And how shall
I come at the hidden Centre, where God dwelleth, and not Man? Tell me
plainly, loving Sir, where it is, and how it is to be found of me, and
entered into?

MASTER

There where the Soul hath slain its own Will, and willeth no more any
Thing as from itself, b