II.  Therefore listen to the Voice of God, which sounds so exceeding clearly to me, who am both disciple and master of these mysteries, as would to God it may sound to you; I Am The Light Of The World.2    John viii. 12.  Therefore approach ye to Him and be enlightened, and let not your faces be ashamed,3    Ps. xxxiv. 5. being signed with the true Light.  It is a season of new birth,4    John iii. 3. let us be born again.  It is a time of reformation, let us receive again the first Adam.5    I.e., the condition of man before the fall.  Let us not remain what we are, but let us become what we once were.  The Light Shineth In Darkness,6    Ib. i. 5. in this life and in the flesh, and is chased by the darkness, but is not overtaken by it:—I mean the adverse power leaping up in its shamelessness against the visible Adam, but encountering God and being defeated;—in order that we, putting away the darkness, may draw near to the Light, and may then become perfect Light, the children of perfect Light.  See the grace of this Day; see the power of this mystery.  Are you not lifted up from the earth?  Are you not clearly placed on high, being exalted by our voice and meditation? and you will be placed much higher when the Word shall have prospered the course of my words.

Βʹ. Τοιγαροῦν ἀκούσατε θείας φωνῆς, ἐμοὶ μὲν καὶ λίαν σφοδρῶς ἐνηχούσης, τῷ μύστῃ καὶ μυσταγωγῷ τῶν τοιούτων, εἴη δὲ καὶ ὑμῖν: Ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο, Προσέλθετε πρὸς αὐτὸν, καὶ φωτίσθητε, καὶ τὰ πρόσωπα ὑμῶν οὐ μὴ καταισχυνθῇ, τῷ ἀληθινῷ φωτὶ σημειούμενα. Καιρὸς ἀναγεννήσεως γεννηθῶμεν ἄνωθεν. Καιρὸς ἀναπλάσεως: τὸν πρῶτον Ἀδὰμ ἀναλάβωμεν. Μὴ μείνωμεν ὅπερ ἐσμὲν, ἀλλ' ὅπερ ἦμεν γενώμεθα. Τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, τῷ βίῳ τούτῳ, καὶ τῷ σαρκίῳ καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς σκοτίας διώκεται μὲν, οὐ καταλαμβάνεται δὲ, τῆς ἀντικειμένης λέγω δυνάμεως, τῷ φαινομένῳ μὲν Ἀδὰμ προσπηδώσης ἐξ ἀναιδείας, τῷ Θεῷ δὲ περιπιπτούσης καὶ ἡττωμένης ἵν' ἡμεῖς τὸ σκότος ἀποθέμενοι, τῷ φωτὶ πλησιάζωμεν, εἶτα καὶ φῶς γενώμεθα τέλειον, τελείου φωτὸς γεννήματα. Ὁρᾶτε τῆς ἡμέρας τὴν χάριν; ὁρᾶτε τοῦ μυστηρίου τὴν δύναμιν; οὐκ ἀπὸ γῆς ἤρθητε; οὐκ ἄνω τέθεισθε σαφῶς ὑψωθέντες ὑπὸ τῆς ἡμετέρας φωνῆς καὶ ἀναγωγῆς; Καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον τεθήσεσθε, ἐπειδὰν εὐοδώσῃ τὸν λόγον ὁ Λόγος.