[Pryr-1.2-52]
So when the first Spark of a Desire for God arises in your Soul, cherish it
with all your Care, give all your Heart into it, for it is nothing less than a
Touch of the Divine Lodestone, that is made to draw You out of the Vanity of
Time & into the Riches of Eternity. Get up and follow it as gladly, as the
Wise Men of the East followed the Star from Heaven that appeared to them. And It
will do for You, as the Star did for them,: lead You to the Birth of Jesus, not
in a Stable at Bethlehem in Judea, but to the Birth of Jesus in the dark Centre
of your own fallen Soul.
[Pryr-1.2-53]
I shall conclude this first Part, with the Words of the heavenly Illuminated,
and blessed Jacob Behmen.
[Pryr-1.2-54] "It is
much to be lamented, that we are so blindly led, and the Truth withheld from us
through imaginary Conceptions; for if the Divine Power in the inward Ground of
the Soul was manifest, and working with its Luster in us, then is the whole
Triune God present in the Life and Will of the Soul, and the Heaven, wherein
God dwells, is opened in the Soul, and There, in the Soul, is the Place where
the Father begets his Son, and where the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father
and the Son.
[Pryr-1.2-55] "Christ
saith, I am the Light of the World, he that followeth me, walketh not in
Darkness. He directs us only to himself, He is the Morning Star, and is
generated and rises in us, and shines in the Darkness of our Nature.
O how great a Triumph is
there in the Soul, when he arises in it! then a Man knows, as he never knew
before, that he is a Stranger in a foreign Land."
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