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Rh mystery, why all should be thus and not otherwise, how God and man, virtue and sin, in and through one another, and how in this entwined knot, now and then the rays of eternity shine down into this temporal world, and how, in one short moment, we feel and experience within us the whole unfathomable eternity, and many thousand thoughts and feelings, of which the smallest in the tittle of time is allowed no place. Also why we were so miserable, and what was the end of the Lord in this. Behold, my friend, there descended a vast stream of thoughts from heaven, (I saw, but knew not one word, one letter of it) and alighted as with large eagle’s wings upon my brain and roared and murmured there, and the marrow of my back became cold as ice, and, my inmost soul was congealed and frozen, and my teeth chattered with fear. How the breath lost itself in my breast, and now it was as if little cooing doves were flying through the immeasureable space of my soul. A gentle heat came over me and my heart