the
infinite
depth
of
depravity
that
is
in
you.
To
apply
balm
is
but
to
endeavour
by
good
works
to
hide
your
corruption.
Oh,
do
it
not
!
You
will
wrong
yourselves.
God
can
suffer
you
;
why
can-nbt
you
suffer
yourselves?
The
soul,
reduced
to
nothingness,
must
remain
in
it,
without
wishing
to
change
its
state
;
and
it
is
then
that
the
torrent
loses
itself
in
the
sea,
never
to
find
itself
in
itself
again,
but
to
become
one
with
the
sea.
It
is
then
that
this
corpse
feels
without
feeling,
that
it
is
gradually
reanimated,
and
assumes
a
new
life;
but
this
is
done
so
gradually
that
it
seems
like
a
dream.
And
this
brings
us
to
the
last
degree,
which
is
the
commencement
of
the
'divine
and
truly
inner
life^
including
numberless
smaller
degrees,
and
in
which
the
advancement
is
infinite
:
just
as
this
torrent
can
perpetually
advance
in
the
sea,
and
imbibe
more
of
its
nature,
the
longer
it
remains
in
it.
