This is a very precious Gate of Knowledge; I am glad thou takest it into
such consideration. The understanding of the whole Scripture is
contained in it; and all that hath been written from the beginning of
the World to this day may be found therein, by him that having entered
with his Will into Nothing, hath there found All Things, by finding God,
from Whom, and to Whom, and in Whom are All Things. By this means thou
shalt come to hear and see God; and after this earthly life is ended to
see with the Eye of Eternity all the Wonders of God and of Nature, and
more particularly those which shall be wrought by thee in the flesh, or
all that the Spirit of God shall have given thee to labour out for
thyself and thy neighbour, or all that the Eye of Reason enlightened
from above, may at any time have manifested to thee. Delay not therefore
to enter in by this Gate, which if thou seest in the Spirit, as some
highly favoured souls have seen it, thou seest in the Supersensual
Ground _all that God is and can do_; thou seest also therewith, as one
hath said who was taken thereinto, _through Heaven, Hell, and Earth; and
through the Essence of all Essences_. Whosoever findeth it, hath found
all that he can desire. Here is the Virtue and Power of the Love of God
displayed. Here is the Height and Depth, here is the Breadth and Length
thereof manifested, as ever the capacity of thy soul can contain. By
this thou shalt come into that Ground out of which all Things are
originated, and in which they subsist; and in it thou shalt reign over
all God's Works, as a Prince of God.