Christian Classics
‹ The Way to Christ
Contents
Of True RepentanceTHE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE READEROF TRUE REPENTENCEThe Process of Repentance; or WAY to ConversionThe Process, or WAYThe PrayerSHORT PRAYERSThe Gates of the Paradisical Garden of RosesTo The READERA MORNING PRAYERAN EVENING PRAYEROf Regeneration, or The New Birth ShewingTHE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE READERTHE FIRST CHAPTERTHE SECOND CHAPTERTHE THIRD CHAPTERTHE FOURTH CHAPTERTHE FIFTH CHAPTERTHE SIXTH CHAPTERTHE SEVENTH CHAPTERTHE EIGHTH CHAPTEROf True Resignation Or Dying to SELFTHE FIRST CHAPTERTHE SECOND CHAPTERTHE THIRD CHAPTERThe SUPER SENSUAL LIFETHE FIRST DIALOGUETHE SECOND DIALOGUE

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THE FIRST DIALOGUE

The Disciple said to his Master: Sir, How may I come to the Place that I may SEE with God, and may HEAR God speak - to a Life that is above my Senses and Feelings - to the Supersensual Life?

The Master answered and said: Son, when thou canst throw thyself into THAT, where no Creature dwelleth, though it be but for a Moment, then thou HEAREST what God speaketh.

Here the Disciple was exceedingly ravished with what his Master had so wonderfully and surprisingly declared, and returned his most humble and hearty Thanks for that Light, which his Master had been an Instrument of conveying to him. But being desirous to hear further concerning these high Matters, and to know Somewhat more particularly, he requested him that he would give him Leave to wait on him the next Day again; and that he would then be pleased to show him how and where he might find this which was so much beyond all Price and Value, and whereabout the Seat and Abode of it might be in human Nature; with the entire Process of the Discovery and bringing it forth to Light.

The Master said to him: This then we will discourse about at our next Conference, as God shall reveal the same to us by his SPIRIT, which is the Searcher of All Things. And if thou dost remember well what I answered thee in the Beginning, thou shalt soon come thereby to understand that hidden mystical Wisdom of God, which none of the Wise Men of the World know; and where the MIND thereof is to be found in thee, shall be given thee from above to discern. Be silent therefore in thy Spirit, and watch unto Prayer; that when we meet again Tomorrow in the Love of Christ, thy Mind may be disposed for finding that noble PEARL, which to the World appears Nothing, but which to the Children of Wisdom is All Things.