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| That God is to Be Found Neither from the Powers of the Body Nor of the Soul.
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Chapter VII.—That God is to Be
Found Neither from the Powers of the Body Nor of the
Soul.
11. What then is it that I love when I love my
God? Who is He that is above the head of my soul? By my soul itself
will I mount up unto Him. I will soar beyond that power of mine
whereby I cling to the body, and fill the whole structure of it
with life. Not by that power do I find my God; for then the horse
and the mule, “which have no understanding,”850
might find Him, since it is the
same power by which their bodies also live. But there is another
power, not that only by which I quicken, but that also by which I
endow with sense my flesh, which the Lord hath made for me; bidding
the eye not to hear, and the ear not to see; but that, for me to
see by, and this, for me to hear by; and to each of the other
senses its own proper seat and office, which being different, I,
the single mind, do through them govern. I will soar also beyond
this power of mine; for this the horse and mule possess, for they
too discern through the body.
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