MASTER

That each of these may be preserved distinctly in their several spheres,

without confounding Things Heavenly and Things Earthly, or breaking the

golden Chain of Wisdom, it will be necessary, my child, in the first

place to wait for and attend the Supernatural and Divine Light, as this

superior Light appointed to govern the day, rising in the true East,

which is the Centre of Paradise, and the great Light breaking forth as

out of the darkness within thee, through a pillar of fire and

thunder-clouds, and thereby reflecting also upon the inferior Light of

Nature a sort of image of itself, whereby only it can be kept in its due

subordination; that which is _below_ being made subservient to that

which is _above_, and that which is _without_ to that which is _within_.

Thus there will be no danger of interfering, but all will go right, and

everything abide in its proper sphere.

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