For I will show him
how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.'
"And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his
hands on him, said: 'Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto
thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive
thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.' And immediately there fell
from his eyes, as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith, and
arose and was baptized."
Like all those who have entered cosmic consciousness, Paul sought the
blessing of solitude, that he might readjust himself to his changed
viewpoint, since he now saw things in the light of the larger
consciousness.
He says:
"Immediately I conferred, not with flesh and blood; neither went I up to
Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went away into
Arabia; and again I returned unto Damascus."
The irresistible longing to get away from the sights and sounds of the
external world, is one of the most characteristic phases of Illumination.
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