The Secret Word Spoken in Silence

‘When all things lay in the midst of silence, then descended down into me from on high, a secret word.’ This word is the birth of myself in your being as your being. The soul in which this birth takes place must keep absolutely pure, collected and turned inward, not running out through the senses into multiplicity of creatures. Where is this silence? It is in the purest thing the soul is capable of, in the ground, the very essence of the soul, the soul’s most secret part. There is the silent middle, for no creature ever entered there, no image, nor has the soul activity or understanding. In that ground – nothing but rest and celebration for this birth. God enters the soul with his all. None can touch the ground but God alone. There the soul must wait without waiting, naked, empty. Therefore, you must be silent and let God work within.