Mark now what I say. The Right Eye looketh forward in thee into
Eternity. The Left Eye looketh backward in thee into Time. If thou now
sufferest thyself to be always looking into Nature, and the Things of
Time, it will be impossible for thee ever to arrive at the Unity, which
thou wishest for. Remember this, and be upon thy watch. Give not thy
mind leave to enter into nor to fill itself with that which is without
thee; neither look thou backward upon thyself; but quit thyself, and
look forward to Christ. Let not thy Left Eye deceive thee by making
continually one representation after another, and stirring up thereby an
earnest longing in the self-propriety; but let thy right eye command
this left, and attract it to thee. Yea it is better to pluck it quite
out and to cast it from thee, than to suffer it to proceed forth without
restraint into Nature, and to follow its own lusts. However there is for
this no necessity, since both eyes may become very useful, if ordered
aright, and both the Divine and Natural Light may in the soul subsist
together, and be of mutual service to each other. But never shalt thou
arrive at the Unity of Vision or Uniformity of Will, but by entering
fully into the Will of our Saviour Christ, and therein bringing the Eye
of Time into the Eye of Eternity, and then descending by means of these
united through the Light of God into the Light of Nature.