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 Yield not to his unclean delusions! But suffer every trial, which he puts on thee, and look a little at us, and thou shalt see how he wholly flags and wastes away, far from thee and those which are inwardly related to thee. What I indeed should have told thee—for I rest not to accomplish the task seen and imposed by thee—has escaped me. Yea, justly I see in thee repenting Eve and in me converting Adam. For what she suffered unknowingly, thou, to whose soul I address my words, being converted, bringest to a happy end. And what the spirit suffered, being dragged down by her, became unfaithful to itself, I now settle with thee, which perceivest that thou art drawn upwards. Of what she was ill thou hast cured, without suffering the same. And wherein she was disobedient, in that thou didst obey. And what he yielded, I flee. And wherein they were deceived, we have known. For it is appointed that each should make amends for his case.

6. "I said as I meant, but could say yet the following: Well for thee, nature of man, that thou art saved in spite of thy weakness, without being hidden! Well for thee, soul, which didst cry what thou hast suffered, and hast found the way again to thyself! Well for thee, man, who knowest that which is not thine and longest after thine own! Well for thee, that thou hearest the things which were spoken! For I conceive that thou art greater than can be thought of or expressed. For I know that thou art mightier than those which seem to