The Way to Divine Knowledge

Humanus. Oh! Theophilus, I must yield, and it is with great Pleasure that I now enter into Conversation with you. You have taken from me all Power of caviling and disputing. I have no Opinions that I choose to maintain, but have the utmost Desire of entering further into this Field of Light, which you have so clearly opened to my View.

Theophilus. Dear Humanus, my Heart embraces you with great Joy, and I am much pleased with what you say of yourself. This Hunger of your Soul is all that I wish for; it is the Fire of God, the Opening of Eternity, the Beginning of your Redemption, the Awakener of the angelic Life, the Root of an omnipotent Faith, and the true Seeker of all that is lost.

For be assured of this, as a certain Truth, that corrupt, fallen, and earthly as human Nature is, there is nevertheless in the Soul of every Man, the Fire, and Light, and Love of God, though lodged in a State of Hiddenness, Inactivity, and Death, till something or other, human or Divine, Moses and the Prophets, Christ or his Apostles, discover its Life within us.

For the Soul of every Man is the Breath and Life of the Triune God, and as such a Partaker of the Divine Nature; but all this Divinity is unfelt, because overpowered by the Workings of Flesh and Blood, till such time as Distress, or Grace, or both, give Flesh and Blood a Shock, open the long shut-up Eyes, and force a Man to find something in himself, that Sense and Reason, whilst at quiet were not aware of.