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SPIRITUAL
TORRENTS.
ance,
are
far
from
this
!
But
in
this
condition,
as
in
all
others,
there
are
souls
more
or
less
divine.
God
hides
them
in
His
bosom,
and
under
the
veil
of
a
most
common
life,
so
that
they
may
be
known
to
Him
alone,
though
they
are
His
delight
Here
the
secrets
of
God,
in
Himself
and
in
the
hearts
of
those
in
whom
He
dwells,
are
revealed;
not
by
word,
sight,
or
light,
but
by
the
science
of
God,
which
abides
in
Him;
and
when
such
people
have
to
write
or
speak,
they
are
themselves
astonished
to
find
that
all
flows
from
a
divine
centre,
without
their
having
been
aware
that
they
possessed
such
treasures.
They
find
themselves
in
a
profound
science,
without
memory
or
recollection
;
like
an
inestimable
treasure,
which
is
unobserved
until
there
is
a
necessity
for
its
manifestation;
and
it
is
in
the
manifestation
to
others
that
they
find
the
revelation
to
them-selves.
When
they
write,
they
are
astonished
to
find
themselves
writing
of
things
with
which
they
neither
knew
nor
believed
themselves
to
be
ac-quainted
;
although,
as
they
write,
they
cannot
doubt
ir
apprehension
of
them.
It
is
not
so
with
other
istians
;
their
light
precedes
their
experience,
as
a
