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Be content for this time with the beautiful mother, and delight your spirit through looking; if GOD grants it to you, he will also let you see the child one day. When I first caught sight of the beautiful mother, my spirit, exhausted after long searching, was so refreshed that I thought I had become another person. I have also placed such a beautiful mother in such a place that I have always had it in view, as long and as much until it also showed me its child, which truly was not unlike Cupido Cupid.
Seek you also, and you will find. Pray to GOD, and he will give to you. Knock, and the door will be opened to you, when you are worthy of it, for GOD will sink his grace and mercy only into humble, thankful hearts. Take an example from a tinder; when it is touched with unclean hands, the sparks of fire will not burn upon it, or the tinder catch fire, however good the flint and steel may provide.
But our running or willing does not help; it depends solely on GOD's mercy. We must seek GOD, so he lets himself be found, and recognized out of his works of Nature, just as man's nature is seen out of his Chiromantia palmistry and Physiognomia physiognomy.