O my Master, my Master! I have now endeavoured to recollect my soul in
the presence of God, and to cast myself into the Deep where no creature
doth nor can dwell; that I might hear the voice of my Lord speaking in
me, and be initiated into that high life whereof I heard yesterday such
great and amazing things. But alas I neither hear nor see as I should.
There is still such a partition wall in me which beats back the heavenly
sounds in their passage, and obstructs the entrance of that light
whereby alone divine objects are discoverable, as till this be gone I
can have but small hopes, yea, even none at all, of arriving at those
glorious attainments which you pressed me to, or of entering into _that
where no creature dwells_, and which you call _Nothing_ and _All
Things_. Wherefore be so kind as to inform me what is required on my
part, that this partition which hinders may be broken or removed.