[8] Ah, ah, at this opportunity we have reached the summit of one of the high mountains! O God, o God, there we are standing now, and especially me, like a true ox at the mountain! I see increasingly clearer in the farthest distance a great, exceedingly bright horizon. It is the beginning of the heaven of God, which continuously expands, higher and higher forever! [9] But between here and there opens an abyss, greater than space between earth and the sun! A bridge will be build across! With God everything is quite possible! [10] But now my inner light-person is as bid as I’m myself, and strange, I’m starting to get sleepy, and my friend tells me to rest on the green and odorous lawn! I will do so!”
86. RELATION BETWEEN BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT [1] I said: “See, only now he will enter the third stage; pay close attention to what he has to say!” [2] Ask Cyrenius: “Lord, if Zorel falls asleep on the lawn which is invisible to us, what is the reason for this? Is this a must, or could he enter the third stage without falling asleep?” [3] I said: “If a soul would be pure, it would also go without a certain sleep; but as long as the soul is connected to the body by certain bonds, a certain anesthesia must occur between the changeover of stages, in which the soul unnoted passes over into the next stage. What the soul of Zorel has seen and spoken in the second stage, was, except for himself, a circumstantial appearance; only in the third stage will she become truly clairvoyant, and what she is going to say there, will be a full reality.” [4] Ask Cyrenius: “What actually is this sleep? How and whereby does it originate?” [5] I said: “Is it really necessary for you to know that? Now then, if you really want to know this, I must explain it to you, and therefore listen! [6] If you carry a shirt on your body and has according to the Greek custom trousers on your legs, shirt and trousers live 208