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 of that knowledge, the knowledge of the Beloved, presence and absence are but two different modes.

Either, without the other, is incomplete. For had presence been prolonged, we should have thought that presence, that companionship, was the end. But they who think thus are deluded. is the end.

And union is not an act. It is a quality, inherent in the natures that have been attuned.

And that inﬁnite music, whereby our spirits are smitten as they were harp-strings, into endless accord of sweetness and sacriﬁce, that music is what some know as God.

Only through God can human beings reach each other, and be at one.