profit, why evil should be found along with good. Of the mind of man,
and how it is the image of GOD, and how it can still be filled with God.
Why this Temporal Universe is created; to what it is profitable; and how
God is so near unto all things': and so on. 'But no amount of
quotation,' says Mrs. Penney, that very able student of Behmen, lately
deceased, 'can give an adequate glimpse of the light which streams from
the _Theoscopia_ when long and patiently studied.'

Another unfinished fragment that Behmen's readers seek for and treasure
up like very sand of gold is his _Holy Week_. This little work, its
author tells us, was undertaken upon the entreaty and desire of some
loving and good friends of his for the daily exercise of true religion in
their hearts and in the little church of their families. The following
is Behmen's method of prayer for Monday, which is the only day's prayer
he got finished before his death: 'A short prayer when we awake early
and before we rise. A prayer and thanksgiving after we are risen. A
prayer while we wash and dress. A prayer when we begin to work at our
calling. A prayer at noon. A prayer toward evening. A prayer when we
undress. A prayer of thanks for the bitter passion and dying of JESUS
CHRIST.' What does the man mean? many of his contemporaries who came
upon his _Holy Week_ would say, What does the madman mean? Would he have
us pray all day? Would he have us pray and do nothing else? Yes; it
would almost seem so. For in his _Supersensual Life_ the Master says to
the disciple who has asked, 'How shall I be able to live aright amid all
the anxiety and tribulation of this world?': 'If thou dost once every
hour throw thyself by faith beyond all creatures into the abysmal mercy
of GOD, into the sufferings of CHRIST, and into the fellowship of His
intercession, then thou shalt receive power from above to rule over the
world, and death, and the devil, and hell itself.' And again, 'O thou of
little courage, if thy will could but break itself off every half-hour