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Jakob Boehme · 148 of 150

The distressed Soul said

I have followed thy counsel, and thereby attained a ray or emanation of the Divine Sweetness, but it is gone from me again, and I am now deserted. Moreover I have outwardly very great trials and afflictions in the World, for all my good friends forsake and scorn me: and am also inwardly assaulted with anguish and doubt, and know not what to do.