the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being
the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they
flow forth. Love, being the greatest Majesty, is the Power of all
Powers, from whence they severally operate. And it is the Holy Magical
Root, a Ghostly Power from whence all the wonders of God have been
wrought by the hands of his elect servants, in all their generations
successively, Whosoever finds it, finds _Nothing and All Things_.

DISCIPLE

Dear Master, pray tell me how I may understand this?

MASTER

First, then, in that I said, its _virtue is Nothing, or that Nothing_
which is the beginning of All Things, thou must understand it thus; When
thou art gone forth wholly from the Creature, and from that which is
visible; and art become Nothing to all that is Nature and Creature, then
thou art in that Eternal One, which is God himself; and then thou shalt
perceive and feel within thee the highest virtue of Love. But in that I
said, Its power is through All Things, this is that which thou
perceivest and findest in thy own soul and body experimentally, whenever
this great Love is enkindled within thee; seeing that it will burn more
than the fire can do, as it did in the Prophets of old, and afterwards
in the Apostles, when God conversed with them bodily, and when his
Spirit descended upon them in the Oratory of Zion. Thou shalt then see
also in all the works of God, how Love hath poured forth itself into all
things, and penetrated all things, and is the most inward and most
outward ground in all things. Inwardly in the virtue and power of every
thing, and outwardly in the figure and form thereof.

And in that I said, _Its height is as high as God_; thou mayest
understand this in thyself: forasmuch as it brings thee to be as high as
God himself is, by being united to God; as may be seen by our beloved
Lord Jesus Christ in our humanity. Which humanity Love hath brought up
into the highest throne, above all angelical principalities and powers,
into the very Power of the Deity itself.

But in that I also said, _Its greatness is as great as God_, thou art
hereby to understand that there is a certain greatness and latitude of
heart in Love, which is unexpressible, for it enlarges the soul as wide
as the whole Creation of God. And this shall be truly experienced by
thee, beyond all words, when the throne of Love shall be set up in thy
heart.

Moreover in that I said, _Its virtue is th