Leap free of everything that is physical,
and grow as vast as immeasurable vastness;
step beyond all time and become eternal;
then you will perceive God.
Realize that nothing is impossible for you;
recognize that you too are immortal and
that you can embrace all things in your mind.
find your home in the heart of every living creature;
make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths;
bring all opposites inside yourself and reconcile them;
understand that you are everywhere,
on the land, in the sea, in the sky;
realize that you haven't yet been begotten,
that you are still in the womb,
that you are young, that you are old,
that you are dead, that you are in the world beyond the grace;
hold all this in your mind,
all times and places,
all substances and qualities and magnitudes;
then you can perceive God.
-from Hermetic Writings
