johan (6)

I saw John when full grown. 

He was a powerful, earnest man. 

He was standing by a dry well in the desert, and appeared to be in prayer. A light hovered over him like a cloud, and it seemed to me as if it came from on high, from the water above the earth. Then a light shining stream fell over him into the basin below. 

While gazing on this torrent [stroom], I saw John no longer at the edge of the basin. He was in it, the shining water flowing over him, and the basin filled by the sparkling stream. 

Then again, I saw him, as at first...

standing on the basin’s edge. 

But I did not see him out of it, nor coming out. 

I think that the whole was perhaps a vision which John himself had had...

and by which he was instructed to begin to baptize. 

Or it may have been a spiritual baptism... 

bestowed upon him in vision.

~bron~