MASTER

Because the _Imaginariness_ which is in their own Will hath set itself

up in the place thereof. And so this Imaginariness would have the Love

in it, but the Love fleeth away, for it is its prison. The Love may

offer itself; but it cannot abide where the _Self-Desire_ attracteth or

imagineth. That Will which attracteth Nothing, and to which Nothing

adhereth, is only capable of receiving it; for it dwelleth only in

Nothing, as I said, and therefore they find it not.

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