Book II, we find the following: ‘‘ My thoughts being

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once seriously busied about the things that be, and my understanding lifted up—all my bodily senses being utterly holden back; methought | saw one of an exceedingly great stature and infinite greatness call me by name, and say to me, What wouldst thou understand to learn and know? ‘Then said I, Who art thou? I am, quoth he, Poemander, the Mind of the Great Lord, the most mighty and absolute Emperor. I know what thou wouldst have, and I am always present with thee ... Tam that Light, the Mind, thy God, who am before the moist nature that appeareth out of the darkness, and that bright and lightful Word from the Mind is the Son of God. How is that? quothI. Thus, replied he, understand it. ‘That which, in thee, seeth and heareth the Word of the Lord, and the Mind, the Father, God, differ not from one another, and the union of these is life... I, the mind, come into men that are holy and good and pure and merciful, and that live piously and religiously, and my presence is a help unto them ; and forthwith they know all things.”
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