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7. CONCERNING INSPIRATION (1)
1. YOU ask the method and nature of Inspiration, and the means whereby God revealeth the Truth.
2. Know that there is no enlightenment from without: the secret of things is revealed from within.
3. From without cometh no Divine Revelation: but the Spirit within beareth witness.
4. Think not I tell you that which you know not: for except you know it, it cannot be given to you.
5. To him that hath it is given, and he hath the more abundantly.
6. None is a prophet save he who knoweth: the instructor of the people is a man of many lives.
7. Inborn knowledge and the perception of things, these are the sources of revelation: the soul of the man instructeth him, having already learned by experience.
8. Intuition is inborn experience:
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that which the soul knoweth of old and of former years.
9. And Illumination is the Light of Wisdom, whereby a man perceiveth heavenly secrets.
10. Which Light is the Spirit of God within the man, showing unto him the things of God.
11. Do not think that I tell you anything you know not: all cometh from within: the Spirit that informeth is the Spirit of God in the prophet.
13. The spirit of the prophet beholdeth God with open eyes. If he fall into a trance his eyes are open, and his interior man knoweth what is spoken by him.
14. But when a man speaketh that which he knoweth not, he is obsessed ( )
19. Of such beware, for they speak many lies (...).
20. Inspiration may indeed be medium-ship, but it is conscious; and the knowledge of the prophet instructeth him.
NOTE
(43:1) Clothed with the Sun. Part I, Nş. 2.
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