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11. What then is it that I love when I love my God? Who is He
that is above the head of my soul? By my soul itself will I mount up
unto Him. I will soar beyond that power of mine whereby I cling to
the body, and fill the whole structure of it with life. Not by that
power do I find my God; for then the horse and the mule, "which
have no understanding," a might find Him, since it is the same power
by which their bodies also live. But there is another power, not that
only by which I quicken, but that also by which I endow with sense my
flesh, which the Lord hath made for me; bidding the eye not to hear,
and the ear not to see; but that, for me to see by, and this, for me
to hear by; and to each of the other senses its own proper seat and
office, which being different, I, the single mind, do through them
govern. I will soar also beyond this power of mine; for this the
horse and mule possess, for they too discern through the body.
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