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 THE WILL IN NATURE.

and to renew the creation, i.e., the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms, so that, were many to co-operate in one magical power, Nature might be created anew as a paradise. . . . How is this magic power to be acquired? By renascence through faith: that is, by our will harmonizing with the divine will. For faith subjects the world to us, inasmuch as our own will, when it is in harmony with the divine will, results, as St. Paul tells us, in making everything submit to and obey us." Thus far Horst. p. 131 of the Revelation, &c., Jane Leade shows that it was by the force of his will that Christ worked miracles, as, for instance, when he said to the leper: " 'I will; be thou clean.' Sometimes however he left it to the will of those who, he saw, believed in him, saying to them: 'What will ye that I shall do unto you?' In which cases no less was done for them than they had desired in their will that the Lord should do. These words of our Saviour's are well deserving of notice, since the highest Magia lies in the will, so far as it is in union with the will of the Almighty: when these two wheels fit into each other, becoming in a sense one, they are, &c." Again, p. 132, she says: "For what could resist that which is united with the will of God? The power of such a will is so great, that it always achieves its end. It is no naked will deprived of its clothing, or power; on the contrary, it brings with it an irresistible omnipotence, which enables it to uproot, to plant, to put to death and to bring to life, to bind and to loose, to heal and to injure, which power will be collected and concentrated in its entirety in the royal, free-born will. Of this power we shall attain knowledge, when we shall have been made one with the Holy Ghost, or when we shall be united in one spirit and being." Again, p. 133 "We must quench or drown altogether the many multifarious wills which arise out of the mixed essence of souls, and they must lose themselves in the

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