If I live in heaven, if my surroundings are there, my citizenship, if I am waiting for the Lord, instead of everything for me being shaken, all can only be perfected in glory; but in so far as we cling to what is earthly, the shaking, the uprooting of that which is second nature, is painful. A tree lives from its roots.
We do not sufficiently see that the things which are not seen are revealed to us. That which `‘ eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him; but God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit," communicated by words which the Holy Ghost has taught; and, lastly, these things are discerned by the Spirit., These are the three steps in the knowledge of divine things. Then, also, he who has seen Jesus has seen the Father. 302