similar to this, but I am ready and obedient to do everything, which
must and shall be done, be it passively or actively.' And thus has the
outer man no question or desire, but to, satisfy only the Eternal Will.
When this will be known in truth, that the inner man shall stand,
immovable, and that the outer man shall and must be moved,--the inner
man has a why and wherefore of his moving, which is nothing but an 'it
must and shall be' ordered by the Eternal Will. And if God himself
were or is the man, it would be so. This is well seen in Christ. And
what in the Divine Light is and from the Divine Light, has neither
spiritual pride nor careless license nor an independent spirit--but a
great humility, and a broken and contrite heart,--and all propriety and
honesty, justice and truth, peace and happiness,--all that belongs to
all virtues, it must have. When it is otherwise, then he is not happy,
as has been said. When this does not help to this union, then there is
nothing which may hinder it but man alone with his own will, which does
him such great harm. That, one ought to know."

"This is sufficient," said she; "I believe we understand each other
now. In another place, our unknown friend says still more unmistakably
that no man is passive before death, and that the glorified man is like
the hand of God, which does nothing of itself except as God wills; or,
like a house in which God dwells. A God-possessed man feels this
perfectly, but does not speak of it. He treasures his life in God like
a love secret. It often seems to me like that silver poplar before my
window. It is perfectly still at evening, and not a leaf trembles or
stirs. When the morning breeze rustles and tosses every leaf, the
trunk with its branches stands still and immovable, and when autumn
conies, though every leaf which once rustled falls to the ground and
withers, the trunk waits for a new spring."