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Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries
Extract from Contemplation 5
The Real made me contemplate the light of silence as the star of negation rose, and He made me speechless.
However there did not remain a single place in the whole universe where my word was not inscribed; nor was there any writing which did not come from my substance and my dictation.
Then He said to me: "Silence is your essential reality."
"Silence is nothing other than you, although it does not belong to you."
"I created you with speech which is the essential reality of your silence, so that although you speak, you are silent."
"Through you I speak, through you I give, through you I take, through you I expand, through you I contract, through you I see, through you I see, through you I give existence and through you I am known."
"If I had remained silent, you would not exist; if you had spoken, I would not have been known. Speak, then, that I may be known."
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