' Possessed by God '...

As if borne away, or possessed by a god, he attains to solitude in untroubled stillness, nowhere deflected in his being and unbusied with self, utterly at rest and become very rest.

He does not converse with a statue or image but with Godhead itself.

And this is no object of vision, but anote mode of seeing, a detachment from self, a simplification and surrener of self, a yearning for contact, and a stillness and meditation directed towards transformation.

Whoever sees himself in this way has attained likeness to God,

let him abandon himself and find the end of his journeying.



-Plotinus