Then the Soul with its ugly misshapen image went before God and
entreated for Grace and the pardon of its sins, and came to be strongly
persuaded in itself that the satisfaction and atonement of our Lord
Jesus Christ did belong to it. But the evil properties of the Serpent,
formed in the Astral Spirit, or Reason, of the outward Man, would not
suffer the Will of the Soul to come before God, but brought their lusts
and inclinations thereinto.
But the poor Soul turned its countenance towards God, and desired Grace
from him, even that he would bestow his Love upon it.