Nothing truly but thine own willing, hearing, and seeing do keep thee
back from it, and do hinder thee from coming to this supersensual state.
And it is because thou strivest so against that, out of which thou
thyself art descended and derived, that thou thus breakest thyself off,
with thine own willing, from God's willing, and with thine own seeing
from God's seeing. In as much as in thine own seeing thou dost see in
thine own willing only, and with thine own understanding thou dost
understand but in and according to thine own willing, as the same
stands divided from the Divine Will. This thy willing, moreover, stops
thy hearing, and maketh thee deaf towards God, through thy own thinking
upon terrestrial things, and thy attending to that which is without
thee, and so it brings thee to a ground where thou art laid hold on and
captivated in Nature. And having brought thee hither, it overshadows
thee with that which thou willest, it binds thee with thine own chains,
and it keeps thee in thine own dark prison which thou makest for
thyself, so that thou canst not go out thence, or come to that state
which is Supernatural and Supersensual.