Spiritual union, is a state of the soul very clear in my perception,
although I may not be able to give you a definite impression of this
state. In order to benefit you, it became necessary for me to enter
into your state, to have an experimental knowledge, an endurance and
suffering of the same state. By this experience I have been brought
into closer relation to God, partaking more fully of the Christ-like
nature by being rendered capable of bearing the infirmities of others.
And I have had, also, a clearer idea of that quality of God, whereby he
multiplies holy souls, by the communication of himself. In this
experience, the soul appears to be in God, and God in her, as first
cause, drawing and penetrating the soul nearest to himself, and by
penetration, in this soul, drawing, through her instrumentality, many
other Souls.
Although, by these powerful rays the soul itself may seem to penetrate
and draw other souls, yet it is God who draws them by his efficiency;
and he communicates this efficiency, most powerfully, to those in
closest contact with himself. So pure and transparent is this soul,
that there seems to be no space between the first Mover and the souls
moved by the agent or instrumentality. There is a difference between
the ray and the body of the sun, although it is difficult to separate
the ray from the sun. It is the divine ray, which is transmitted
through this soul, as the natural ray through the medium of the
atmosphere. These same rays, transmitted through many souls, and from
soul to soul, unite them in one common centre, and thus the bond of
filiation is complete in God. I may not express myself so as to be
understood. May your light supply, what is wanting in clearness of
expression.