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("Wouldst thou see what no human eyes have
seen? Look upon the moon. Wouldst thou hear
what no ears have heard? Hearken to the cry of
the bird. Wouldst thou touch what no hands
have touched? Put thy hand to the earth. Truly I
say unto thee, that the moment of God's
creation of the world is yet to come.") Then
suddenly a sentence of twenty words came to
his spirit.
With joy he wrote it on the page;
immediately afterward, he was disturbed by the
sense that it was someone else's. The next day,
he remembered: he had read it many years ago
in the Adversus Annulares, composed by John
of Pannonia. He ferreted out the quotation—
there it was. He was torn by uncertainty. To
alter or omit those words was to weaken the
force of the statement; to let them stand was to
plagiarize a man he detested; to indicate the
source was to denounce him. He pleaded for
divine aid. Toward the coming of the second
twilight, his guardian angel suggested a middle
way. Aurelian kept the words, but set this
disclaimer before it: That which the heresiarchs