The Book of Privy Counseling – It was with an eye to this ultimate experience that I said in the beginning: God is your being. At that time I felt it was premature to expect you to rise suddenly to a high spiritual awareness of God’s being. So I let you climb toward it by degrees, teaching you first to gnaw away on the naked, blind awareness of your self until by spiritual perseverance you acquired an ease in this interior work;mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, David Reese