“Thus had the Everlasting No (das ewige Nein) pealed authoritatively through all the recesses of my Being, of my ME; and then was it that my whole ME stood up, in native God-created majesty, and with emphasis recorded its Protest. Such a Protest, the most important transaction in Life, may that same Indignation and Defiance, in a psychological point of view, be fitly called. The Everlasting No had said: "Behold, thou art fatherless, outcast, and the Universe is mine (the Devil's);' to which my whole ME now made answer: 'I am not thine, but Free, and for ever hate thee!'

"it is from this hour that I incline to date my Spiritual New-birth, or Baphometic Fire-Baptism; perhaps I directly thereupon began to be a Man.”