When thou standest still from the thinking of Self, and the willing of
Self. When both thy intellect and will are quiet, and passive to the
expressions of the Eternal Word and Spirit; and when thy soul is winged
up and above that which is temporal, the outward senses and the
imagination being locked up by holy abstraction, then the Eternal
Hearing, Seeing and Speaking will be revealed in thee, and so God
heareth and seeth through thee, being now the organ of _his_ Spirit, and
so God speaketh in _thee_, and whispereth to thy Spirit, and thy Spirit
heareth his voice. Blessed art thou therefore if thou canst stand still
from self-thinking and self-willing, and canst stop the wheel of thy
imagination and senses; forasmuch as hereby thou mayest arrive at length
to see the great Salvation of God, being made capable of all manner of
divine sensations and heavenly communications. Since it is nought indeed
but thine own hearing and willing that do hinder thee, so that thou dost
not see and hear God.