" These things did my
inner man know by the ministry of the outer: I the inner knew them; I,
the mind, through the senses of my body. I asked the whole frame of
the world about my God; and it answered me, "I am not He, but He
made me.
Is not this corporeal figure apparent to all whose senses are
perfect? why then speaks it not the same to all? Animals small and
great see it, but they cannot ask it: because no reason is set over
their senses to judge on what they report. But men can ask, so that
the invisible things of God are clearly seen, being understood by
the things that are made; but by love of them, they are made subject
unto them: and subjects cannot judge. Nor yet do the creatures
answer such as ask, unless they can judge; nor yet do they change
their voice (i.e., their appearance), if one man only sees, another
seeing asks, so as to appear one way to this man, another way to that,
but appearing the same way to both, it is dumb to this, speaks to
that; yea rather it speaks to all; but they only understand, who
compare its voice received from without, with the truth within.
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