In reply to your enquiry, my dear children, concerning my state, I
would say, that exteriorly, I am open, simple, childlike. My interior
resembles a drop of water, mingling and lost in the ocean, and no more
discerning itself,--the sea not only surrounding, but absorbing it. In
this divine immensity, the soul discerns and enjoys all objects in God.
All is darkness and obscurity in respect to itself; all is light on the
part of God. Thus, _God is all_ to me. This has been my state more
than thirty years, although in latter years I have realized greater
depths in these experiences. Think of the bottomless sea; what is
thrown therein, continues sinking, without ever reaching the end. Thus
divine love is the weight of the soul, that sinks it deeper and deeper
in God. "God is Love, and he who dwells in love, dwells in God, and
God in him." O immensity!
Jesus Christ, the embodiment of truth and love, has explained the
Scriptures by fulfilling them. So when the soul has passed into God,
the Word is fulfilled in the soul, as it was in Christ. O Love! thou
art thyself the pure, naked, simple truth, which is expressed, not by
me, but by thyself, through me. Amen.