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The Mystic Will

CHAPTER XI
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Thereby is man so highly gifted in Nature that he knows or perceives (_sicht_), as he goes, his neighbor or friend in a distant land.

Yet, on waking, he knows nothing of all this.

For God has given to us all--Art, Wisdom, Reason--to know the future, and what passes in distant lands; but we know it not, for we fools, busied in common things, sleep away, as it were, what is in us.

Thus, seeing one who is a better artist than thou art, do not say that he has more gift or grace than thou; for thou hast it also, but hast not tried, and so is it with all things.

What Adam and Moses did was to _try_, and they succeeded, and it came neither from the Devil nor from Spirits, but from the Light of Nature, which they developed in themselves.


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