bmission of the body to all _circumstances,_
the obedience of the will to God, and the glorious and immeasurable
possibilities of the human spirit.

* * *

We know that the love of the heart can be beautiful and full of zeal
and fervour; but the love of the soul by comparison to it is like a
furnace, and the capacities of the heart are not worthy to be named
in the same breath. Yet, deplorable as is the heart of man, it is
evidently desired by God, and must be given to Him before He will
waken the soul. To my belief, we are quite unable to awaken our
own soul, though we are able to _will_ to love God with the heart,
and through this we pass up to the border of the Veil of Separation,
where He will _sting the soul into life_ and we have Perception.

After which the soul will often be swept or plucked up into
immeasurable glories and delights which are neither imagined nor
contrived, nor even desired by her at first--for how can we desire
that which we have never heard of and cannot even imagine? And
these delights are unimaginable before the soul is caught up into
them, and to my experience they constantly differ. The soul knows
herself to be in the hands and the power of another, outside herself.
She does not enter these joys of her own power or of her own will,
but by permission and intention and will of a force outside herself
though perceived and known inside herself. No lovers of arguments
or guessing games can move the soul to listen when she has once
been so handled. For to know is more than to guess.

* * *

How can a Contact with God be in any way described? It is not
seeing, but meeting and fusion with awareness. The soul retaining
her own individuality and consciousness to an intense degree, but
imbued with and fused into a life of incredible intensity, which
passes through the soul vitalities and emotions of a life so new, so
vivid, so amazing, that she knows not whether she has been
embraced by love or by fire, by joy or by anguish: for so fearful is
her joy that she is almost unable to endure the might of it. And how
can the heat or fire of God be described? It is very far from being
like the cruelty of fire, and yet it is so tremendous that the mind
knows of little else to compare it to. But it is like a vibration of great
speed and heat, like a fluid and magnetic heat.

This heat is of many degrees and of several kinds. The heat of Christ
is mixed with indescribable sweetness: giving marvellous pl