CHAPTER
I.
SOULS
UNDER
DIVINE
INFLUENCE
ARE
IMPELLED
TO
SEEK
AFTER
GOD,
BUT
IN
DIFFERENT
WAYS
—
REDUCED
TO
THREE,
AND
EXPLAINED
BY
A
SIMILITUDE.
AS
soon
as
a
soul
is
brought
under
divine
influ-ence,
and
its
return
to
God
is
true
and
sin-cere,
after
the
first
cleansing
which
confession
and
contrition
have
effected,
God
imparts
to
it
a
certain
instinct
to
return
to
Him
in
a
most
complete
man-ner,
and
to
become
united
to
Him.
The
soul
feels
then
that
it
was
not
created
for
the
amusements
and
trifles
of
the
world,
but
that
it
has
a
centre
and
an
end,
to
which
it
must
be
its
aim
to
return,
