II. Therefore listen to the Voice of God,
which sounds so exceeding clearly to me, who am both disciple and
master of these mysteries, as would to God it may sound to you; I Am
The Light Of The World. John viii. 12. Therefore
approach ye to Him and be enlightened, and let not your faces be
ashamed, Ps. xxxiv. 5. being signed with
the true Light. It is a season of new birth, John iii. 3. let us be born again. It is a time of
reformation, let us receive again the first Adam. I.e., the condition of
man before the fall. Let us not remain what we are, but let
us become what we once were. The Light Shineth In
Darkness, Ib. i.
5. in this life and in
the flesh, and is chased by the darkness, but is not overtaken by
it:—I mean the adverse power leaping up in its shamelessness
against the visible Adam, but encountering God and being
defeated;—in order that we, putting away the darkness, may draw
near to the Light, and may then become perfect Light, the children of
perfect Light. See the grace of this Day; see the power of this
mystery. Are you not lifted up from the earth? Are you not
clearly placed on high, being exalted by our voice and meditation? and
you will be placed much higher when the Word shall have prospered the
course of my words.