Being at play with other children, when three or four years old, I was telling them something, which my mother overhearing, said it had happened before I was born... others being called on were greatly astonished...and caused them to say in my hearing, I surely would be a prophet. |
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. |
I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first. |