Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter LXI: Imagination
which I am going to say, and cause it, walking in peaceable
paths, to attain to those things which I shall demonstrate. Listen
now, therefore. Did you never in thought reach forth your
mind into regions or islands situated far away, and remain so
fixed in them, that you could not even see the people that were
before you, or know where yourself were sitting, by reason of
the delightfulness of those things on which you were gazing?
into heaven, yea above the heaven, and behold that there must
be some place beyond the world, or outside the world, in
which there is neither heaven nor earth, and where no shadow
of these things produces darkness; and consequently,
since there are neither bodies in it, nor darkness occasioned
by bodies, there must of necessity be immense light; and consider
of what sort that light must be, which is never succeeded
by darkness. For if the light of this sun fills this whole world,
how great do you suppose that bodiless and infinite light to
be? So great, doubtless, that this light of the sun would seem
atiently
concerning both these matters, that is, concerning the
example of stretching out the senses, and concerning the immensity
of light. I know that I myself, O Simon, have sometimes
in thought extended my sense, as you say, into regions
and islands situated afar off, and have seen them with my
mind not less than if it had been with my eyes. When I was at
Kfar Nachum, occupied in the taking of fishes, and sat upon a
rock, holding in my hand a hook attached to a line, and fitted
for deceiving the fishes, I was so absorbed that I did not feel a
fish adhering to it while my mind eagerly ran through my beloved
Yahrushalayim, to which I had frequently gone up, wak-