" I implore thee, I say, to give me thy grace,
that I may perfectly know thee, and strive to obey
and to please thee with all cheerfulness and sub-'
mission, conforming myself in all things to thy
holy precepts, and abstaining from everything
which thou hast prohibited. Give me strength,
I beseech thee, to support with patience all the
trials and afflictions which may befal me in thy
service, and which are sent by thee in mercy, for
the cleansing and purification of souls.''

This Union of the Intelligence and the Soul, so
necessary for the production of the Ministers, and
of faithful Unitarians, is thus expressed in a
treatise entitled, *' Tinder," which was probably
written by Temeemi himself. •* To return," says
he, ^^ to what we were saying of the flint and the
tinder, and to their signification in the language
of wisdom. The fire is concealed in the tinder,
yet it cannot itself produce any fire. It is only
when the flint is raised above it and communicates
movement, that the fire shows itself. In the same

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way, the flint without the aid of the steel cannot
draw fire from itself, or anything else. We say,
then, that the flint and the tinder are a well-
matched couple, male and female. The fire pro-
ceeds from them by means of the steel, which is
the medium communication between them, as the
coupling of animals produces offspring. The flint
is the Intelligence, the tinder is the Soul.
