 I entered into my inmost parts with you, my God, as my guide. By the eye of the soul I saw above that same eye of my soul, above my mind, the unalterable light. Not this light of common day that all flesh may look upon, nor something grander than that but of the same kind, as if this sunlight should shine out more and more brilliantly and fill the whole universe with its power. That light was not this light, but other, holy other, from all these. Nor is it above my mind as oil lies above water, or as the heavens are above the earth. It was higher because it was this light that made me, and I was lower because I was made by it. Whoever knows the truth knows this light, and whoever knows it knows eternity.