Words, the Nature of which admits no Explication.

§ 86. I say then, when he had abstracted himself from his own and all
other Essences, and beheld nothing in Nature, but only that _One, Living
and Permanent Being_: When he saw what he saw, and then afterwards
return'd to the beholding of other Things: Upon his Coming to himself
from that State (which was like Drunkenness) he began to think that his
own Essence did not at all differ from the Essence of that _TRUE Being_,
but that they were both one and the same thing; and that the thing which
he had taken before for his own Essence, distinct from that _true_
Essence was in reality nothing at all, and that there was nothing in him
but this _true Essence_. And that this was like the Light of the Sun,
which, when it falls upon solid Bodies, shines there; and though it be
attributed, or may seem to belong to that Body upon which it appears,
yet it is nothing else in reality, but the Light of the Sun. And if that
Body be remov'd, its Light also is remov'd; but the Light of the Sun
remains still after the same manner, and is neither increas'd by the
Presence of that Body, nor diminish'd by its Absence. Now when there
happens to be a Body which is fitted for such a Reception of Light, it
receives it; if such a Body be absent, then there is no such Reception,
and it signifies nothing at all.

§ 87. He was the more confirm'd in this Opinion, because it appeared to
him before, that this _TRUE Powerful_ and _Glorious Being_, was not by
any means capable of _Multiplicity_, and that his Knowledge of his
Essence, was his very Essence, from whence he argued thus:

_He that has the Knowledge of this Essence has the Essence itself;
hut I have the knowledge of this Essence._ Ergo, _I have the
Essence itself_.