Sec. 85.  And now, don’t expect that I should give thee a Description of that, which the Heart of Man cannot conceive.  For if a great many of thole things which we do conceive are nevertheless hard to be explain’d, how much more difficult must those be which cannot be conceiv’d by the Heart, nor are circumscrib’d in the Limits of that World in which it converses.  Now, when I say the Heart, I don’t mean the Substance of it, nor that Spirit which is contain’d in the Cavity of it; but I mean by it, the Form of that Spirit which is diffus’d by its Faculties through the whole Body of Man.  Now every one of these three is sometimes call’d the Heart, but ’tis impossible that this thing which I mean should be comprehended by any of these three, neither can we express any thing by Words, which is not first conceiv’d in the Heart.  And whosoever asks to have it explain’d, asks an Impossibility; for ’tis just as if a Man should have a mind to taste Colours, quatenas Colours, and desire, that black should be either sweet or sowre. However, I shall not dismiss you without some Limits, whereby I shall point out to you in some Measure, what wonderful things he saw when in this Condition, but all figuratively, and by way of Parable; not pretending to give a literal Description of that, which is impossible to be known, but by coming thither.  Attend therefore with the Ears of thy Heart, and look sharply with the Eyes of thy Understanding, upon that which I shall shew thee; it may be thou may’st find so much in it, as may serve to lead thee into the right way.  But I make this Bargain, that thou shalt not at present require any further Explication of it by Word of Mouth; but rest thy self contented with what I shall commit to these Papers.  For ’tis a narrow Field, and ’tis dangerous to attempt the explaining of that with Words, the Nature of which admits no Explication.

Sec. 86.  I say then, when he had abstracted himself from his own and all other Essences, and beheld nothing in Nature, but only that One, Living and Permanent Being:  When he saw what he saw, and then afterwards return’d to the beholding of other Things:  Upon his Coming to himself from that State (which was like Drunkenness) he began to think that his own Essence did not at all differ from the Essence of that TRUE Being, but that they were both one and the same thing; and that the thing which he had taken before for his own Essence, distinct from that true Essence was in reality nothing at all, and that there was nothing in him but this true Essence.  And that this was like the Light of the Sun, which, when it falls upon solid Bodies, shines there; and though it be attributed, or may seem to belong to that Body upon which it appears, yet it is nothing else in reality, but the Light of the Sun.  And if that Body be remov’d, its Light also is remov’d; but the Light of the Sun remains still after the same manner, and is neither increas’d by the Presence of that Body, nor diminish’d by its Absence.  Now when there happens to be a Body which is fitted for such a Reception of Light, it receives it; if such a Body be absent, then there is no such Reception, and it signifies nothing at all.