Thou desirest that I would teach thee how thou art to attain it; and I will direct thee to our Master, from whom I have been taught it, that thou mayest learn it thyself from him, who alone teacheth the heart. Hear thou him. Wouldst thou arrive at this; wouldst thou remain untouched by sensibles; wouldst thou behold light in the very Light of God, and see all things thereby; then consider the words of Christ, who is the Light and who is the Truth. O consider now his words, who said, _Without me ye can do nothing_ (John xix. 5) and defer not to apply thyself unto him, who is the strength of thy salvation, and the _power_ of thy life; and _with whom thou canst do all things_, by the faith which he waketh in thee. But unless thou wholly givest thyself up to the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, and resignest thy Will wholly to him, and desirest nothing and willest nothing without him, thou shalt never come to such a rest as no creature can disturb. Think what thou pleasest, and be never so much delighted in the activity of thine own reason, thou shalt find that, in thine own power and without such a total surrender to God and to the life of God, thou canst never arrive at such a rest as this, or the true Quiet of the Soul, wherein no creature can molest thee, or even so much as touch thee. Which when thou shalt, with Grace, have attained to, then with thy Body thou art in the World, as in the properties of outward Nature; and, with thy Reason, under the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; but with thy _Will_ thou walkest in heaven, and art at the end from whence all creatures are proceeded forth, and _to_ which they return again. And then thou canst in this End, which is the same with the _Beginning_, behold all things outwardly with _reason_ and liberally with the _mind_; and so mayest thou rule in all things and over all things, with Christ; unto whom all power is given both in heaven and on earth. DISCIPLE O, Master, the creatures which live in me do withhold me, so that I cannot so wholly yield and give up myself as I willingly would. What am I to do in this case? MASTER