And
thou didst beat back the weakness of my sight, shining forth upon
me thy dazzling beams of light, and I trembled with love and fear.
I realized that I was far away from thee in the land of
unlikeness, as if I heard thy voice from on high: "I am the food
of strong men; grow and you shall feed on me; nor shall you change
me, like the food of your flesh into yourself, but you shall be
changed into my likeness." And I understood that thou chastenest
man for his iniquity, and makest my soul to be eaten away as
though by a spider.[204] And I said, "Is Truth, therefore,
nothing, because it is not diffused through space -- neither
finite nor infinite?" And thou didst cry to me from afar, "I am
that I am."[205] And I heard this, as things are heard in the
heart, and there was no room for doubt. I should have more
readily doubted that I am alive than that the Truth exists -- the
Truth which is "clearly seen, being understood by the things that
are made."[206]
CHAPTER XI
17. And I viewed all the other things that are beneath thee,
and I realized that they are neither wholly real nor wholly
unreal.
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