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 SECOND DIALOGUE

ARGUMENT Herein is described and set forth the Manner of passing the Gulf which divides betwixt the two Principles or States of Heaven and Hell: And it is particularly shown how this Transaction is carried on in the Soul; what the Partition Wall therein is, which separates from God. What the breaking down of this Partition Wall, and how effected; what the Center of Light is, and the pressing into that Center is; What the Light of God, and Light of Nature are; how they are operative in their several Spheres, and how to be kept from interfering with each other; with some Account of the two Wills and their Contraposition in the Fallen State; of the Magical Wheel of the Will, and how the Motion thereof may be regulated; of the Eye in the Midst thereof, what the Right Eye is to the Soul, and what the Left is, but especially what the Single Eye is, and in what Manner it is to be obtained; of the Purification from the Contagion of Matter; of the Destruction of Evil, and of the very Annihilation of it, by the Subsidence of the Will from its own Something into Nothing; of the Naked and Magical Faith, and the Attraction thereby of a certain Divine Substantiality and Vestment; how all consists in the Will, and proceeds but from one Point; where that Point is placed, and how it may be found out; and which is both the safest and nearest Way to attain to the high supersensual State, and the internal Kingdom of Christ, according to the true Heavenly Magia or Wisdom.

The Disciple being very earnest to be more fully instructed how he might arrive at the Supersensual Life; and how, having found All Things, he might come to be a King over all God's Works; came again to his Master the next Morning, having watched the Night in Prayer, that he might be disposed to receive and apprehend the Instructions that should be given him by a Divine Irradiation upon his Mind. And the Disciple after a little Space of Silence, bowed himself, and thus brake forth:

"Behold, I stand at the Door and knock: if any man HEAR My voice, and open the Door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me." "He that is of God HEARETH God's Words; ye therefore HEAR them not, because ye are not of God." "My Sheep HEAR My Voice; and I know them, and they follow Me... And a Stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the Voice of Strangers." "He that has Ears to HEAR, let him HEAR."