We are two spirits, inhabiting one outward frame:
And when you behold me, you behold Him,
And when you behold Him, you behold us twain.”
He taught the freedom of the human will and wrote the following satire on the predestinarian system of Islam:
“What can man do, if the decrees of predestination surround him,
Binding him in his every state? answer me, O learned professor.
He (i. e., as if He, that is God) cast him into the ocean, bound hand and foot, and then said to him,
Woe to you, woe to you, should you get wet with the water.”
He it is who thus in his verse addresses God:
“I love Thee with a twofold love, the love of friendship,