This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... the spirit of love second part the third dialogue first section of intellectual and spiritual apprehension I. The Difference betiveen Admiring and Possessing Eusebius.--You have shown great good-will towards us, Thcophilus, in desiring another meeting before we leave you. But yet I seem to myself to have no need of that which you have proposed by this day's conversation. For this doctrine of the Spirit of Love cannot have more power over me, or be more deeply rooted in me, than it is already. It has so gained and got possession of my whole heart that everything else must be under its dominion. I can do nothing else but love; it is my whole nature; I have no taste for anything else. Can this matter be carried higher in practice? theophilus.--No higher, Eusebius. And was this the true state of your heart, you would bid fair to leave A the world as Elijah did; or, like Enoch, to nave it said of you, that you lived wholly to love, and was not. For was there nothing but this Divine love alive in you, your fallen flesh and blood would be in danger of being quite burnt up by it. What you have said of yourself, you have spoken in great sincerity, but in a total ignorance of yourself, and the true nature of the Spirit of Divine Love. You are as yet only charmed with the sight, or rather the sound, of it; its real birth is as yet unfelt and unfound in you. Your natural complexion has a great deal of the animal meekness and softness of the lamb and the dove, your blood and spirit are of this turn; and therefore a God all love, and a religion