THE EQUINOX
“You have restored to me hope and life,” said he; “my
strength is partially returned, I am able with the signatures
that you gave me to relieve sufferers, and cast out devils, but
him, I cannot see him again, and, until I have seen him, I
shall be sad to the day of my death. Formerly, he was always
near me, he sometimes touched me, and he used to wake me
up in the night to tell me all that I needed to know. Master,
I beg of you, let me see him again!”
“See whom ?”
“ Adonai.”
“ Do you know who Adonai is?”
“No, but I want to see him again.”
“ Adonai is invisible.”
“T have seen him.”
“ He has no form.”
“T have touched him.”
“ He is infinite.”
“ He is very nearly of my own height.”
“The prophets say of him that the hem of his vestment,
from the East to the West, sweeps the stars of the morning.”
“ He had a very clean surcoat, and very white linen.”
“The Holy Scripture says that one cannot see him and
live.”
“ He had a kind and jovial face.”
“But how did you proceed in order to obtain these
apparitions?”
“Why, I did everything that it tells you to do in the
gvimotre.”
“What! Even the bloody sacrifice?”
“ Doubtless.”
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