To conclude. The following are the terms in which William Law speaks of Behmen's writings in one of his letters: "Therein is opened the true ground of the unchangeable _distinction between God and Nature_, making all nature, whether temporal or eternal, its own proof that it is not, cannot be, God, but purely and solely the _want_ of God; and can be nothing else in itself but a restless painful want, till a supernatural God manifests himself in it. This is a doctrine which the learned of all ages have known nothing of; not a book, ancient or modern, in all our libraries, has so much as attempted to open the _ground_ of nature to show its _birth_ and _state_, and its essential unalterable distinction from the one _abyssal supernatural_ God; and how all the glories, powers, and perfections of the hidden, unapproachable God, have their wonderful manifestation in nature and creature." And on another occasion: "In the Revelation made to this wonderful man, the first _beginning_ of _all_ things in eternity is opened; the whole state, the _rise_, _workings_, and _progress_ of all Nature is revealed; and every doctrine, mystery, and precept of the Gospel is found, not to have sprung from any _arbitrary_ appointment, but to have its _eternal_, _unalterable_ ground and reason in Nature. And God appears to save us by the methods of the Gospel, because there was no other possible way to save us in all the possibility of Nature." And again: "Now, though the difference between God and Nature has always been supposed and believed, yet the true ground of such distinction, or the _why_, the _how_, and in _what_ they are essentially different, and must be so to all eternity, was to be found in no books, till the goodness of God, in a way not less than that of _miracle_, made a poor illiterate man, in the simplicity of a child, to open and relate the deep mysterious _ground of all things_." Thus much upon the "reveries" of our "poor possessed cobbler." It may be well to add, that Freher's writings (in sequence to those of Law above named) are all but essential for the proper understanding of Behmen, especially of his descriptions of the _generation of Nature_, as to its _seven_ properties, _two_ co-eternal principles, and _three_ constituent parts: which is the deepest and most difficult point of all others to apprehend rightly (that is, with intellectual clearness, as well as sensitively in our own spiritual regeneration), and indeed the key to every mystery of truth and life. J. YEOWELL. Hoxton. [Footnote 2: This remark especially applies to the _Answer_ to the fourth of the _Theosophic Questions_.]