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156 in with the happy consent of the entire mind. While the former state is called the work of God, this is termed the rest of God. Therefore it is said, "On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."

So God's rest is also man's rest. When man attains this state, he doubts no more concerning spiritual truth; he hesitates no more as to the path of good. His rationality concerning spiritual things becomes so quickened and so strengthened, that they act as intuitions on the mind. His sensitiveness to evil, or to the very shadow or breath of wrong, becomes so exquisite and delicate, that it is shrunk from with the spontaneous energy with which one would snatch his hand from contact with a scorpion. Indeed, he comes into a condition wherein he loves truth and good, and that of a spiritual kind, for their own sakes, so well, that they come to him with all the force of things that cannot be questioned. He would as soon question the sun in the radiance of his shining, the light as it lit before his very eyes the path of his going, the warmth whose genial glow filled every pleasurable sense with joy, as to question God, truth or goodness as they become realized things to the love of the soul, the light of the understanding, and the experience of his life.