the
road
necessary
to
be
taken
in
order
to
arrivi
at
God
that
the
end
is
not
so
soon
attained
as
W(
are
apt
to
imagine,
and
that
even
the
most
spiritua
and
enlightened
mistake
*the
consummation
of
th<
passive
way
of
light
and
lave
for
the
end
of
thii
one,
when
in
reality
it
is
but
the
commencement
I
must
also
remark,
that
what
I
have
said
touching
the
mind
of
Christ
commences
as
soon
as
we
enter
the
way
of
naked
faith.
Although
the
soul
in
the
former
degrees
has
no
distinct
sights
of
Christ,
it
has
nevertheless
a
desire
to
be
conformed
to
His
image.
It
covets
the
cross,
lowliness,
poverty
;
then
this
desire
is
lost,
and
there
remains
a
secret
incli-nation
for
the
same
things,
which
continually
deepens
and
simplifies,
becoming
every
day
more
intimate
and
more
hidden.
But
here
the
mind
of
Christ
is
the
mind
of
the
soul,
natural
and
habitual
to
it,
as
some-thing
no
longer
distinct
from
itself,
but
as
its
own
being
and
its
own
life
;
Christ
exercising
it
without
going
out
of
the
soul,
and
the
soul
exercising
it
with
Him,
in
Him,
without
going
out
of
Him
;
not
like
something
distinct,
which
it
knows,
sees,
attempts,
practises,
but
as
that
which
is
natural
to
it.
All
the
