FOLLOWING on these considerations thou mayest perceive sight to differ in those who see by reason of its varied forms of limitation. For our sight followeth the affections of our eye and mind, and thus a man’s looks are now loving and glad, anon sad and wrathful; first the looks of a child, later, of a man; finally, grave, and as of an aged man. But sight that is freed from? all limitation embraceth at one and the same time each and every mode of seeing, as being the most adequate measure of all sights, and their truest pattern. For without Absolute Sight there can be no limited sight;)it embraceth in itself all modes of seeing, all and each alike, and abideth entirely freed from all variation. All limited modes of seeing exist without limitation in Absolute Sight. For every limitation existeth in the Absolute, because
1 Absolutus a. Recurs constantly; translated as above
throughout. Io
Absolute Sight is the limiting of limitations, limiting not being limitable. Wherefore limiting pure and simple coincideth with! the Absolute. For without limiting naught is limited, and thus Absolute Sight existeth in all sight, because through it all limited sight existeth, and without it is utterly unable to exist.
‘ Coincidit. Or, “‘is one with.” Recurs constantly; translated in one or other of these two ways throughout.
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