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854 THE WILL IN NATURE.
and to renew the creation i.e. the animal, vegetable and
mineral kingdoms so that, were many to co-operate in one
magical power, Nature might be created anew as a paradise.
. . . How is this magic power to be acquired ? By renas
cence through faith : that is, by our will harmonizing with
the divine wiW." For faith subjects the world to us, inasmuch
as our own will, when it is in harmony with the divine
will, results, as St. Paul tells us, in making everything
submit to and us." obey Thus far Horst. p. 131 of the
"
Revelation, &c.," Jane Leade shows that it was by the
force of his will that Christ worked miracles, as, for in
stance, when he said to the leper :
"
I will ; be thou
clean." Sometimes however he left it to the will of those
who, he saw, believed in him, saying to them :
will ye that I shall do unto you ? in which cases no
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less was done for them than they had desired in their
will that the Lord should do. These words of our
Saviour s are well deserving of notice, since the highest
Magia lies in the will, so far as it is in union with the will
of the Almighty: when these two wheels fit into each
other, becoming in a sense one, they are, &c." Again,
p. 132, she says: "For what could resist that which is
united with the will of God ? The power of such a will is
so great, that it always achieves its end. It is no naked
will deprived of its clothing, or power ; on the contrary, it
brings with it an irresistible omnipotence, which enables it
to uproot, to plant, to put to death and to bring to life, to
bind and to loose, to heal and to injure, which power will
be collected and concentrated in its entirety in the royal,
free-born will. Of this power we shall attain knowledge,
when we shall have been made one with the Holy Q-host,
or when we shall
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be united in one spirit and being."
Again, p. 133 :
"
must quench or drown altogether the
many multifarious wills which arise out of the mixed
essence of souls, and they must lose themselves in the