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Jesus said to Nicodemus: Those who are reborn, those who are born from above, no longer speak what they say solely from human experience; they speak it “from above.” They speak words as Angelus Silesius spoke at the end of “The Cherubic Wanderer”: “If you want to read more, go” and become the scripture and the essence yourself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. 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