These later verses play with that vertigo of self-contradiction which is so dear to mysticism. Those that come next are completely mystical, for in them Saint John passes from God to the more metaphysical notion of the All. "When you stop at one thing, you cease to open yourself to the All. "For to come to the All you must give up the All. "And if you should attain to owning the All, you must own it, desiring Nothing. "In this spoliation, the soul finds its tranquillity and rest. Profoundly established in the centre of its own nothingness, it can be assailed by naught that comes from below;
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