Yet some may question the Wisdom of the Law, that FREE SALVATION grants to ALL ON EARTH WHO FALL. Yet falling they must rise again, OH SLAYER OF OUR FOES, RENUNCIATION IS THY NAME! With THEE we fight the hordes of PAIN, and PASSION SLAY, and thus destroy the CAUSE OF ALL OUR ILLS. EACH HIS OWN SALVATION WINS! EACH ALL EARTHLY SIN MUST HERE RENOUNCE! THUS HAVE THE WISE ALL TAUGHT. 67 Let us call HIM THE ALL MERCIFUL for HE the PATH doth LIGHT, so man from MORTAL DARKNESS may be led into the LIGHT. Hear ye then this simple, yet most ancient of the truths, how man can gain the knowledge of life beyond the tomb. "CONTROL THYSELF, and with thy senses send thy soul unto its elements, there to wring out the SECRET of its BIRTH and END." And the gentle voice of the SILENCE whispers soft and low, and bids me reader, write you the answer here below! I MYSELF AM HEAVEN, I MYSELF AM HELL, I AM THE CAUSE CREATIVE, I AM THE WAY, THE END. 68 This then is a vision of heaven that FULFILLER OF ALL DESIRES, and this is the shade of GEHENNA the sorrows that life acquires. Cast thyself boldly on this ocean, FEAR NOT THOUGH THE CURRENT IS STRONG, thy body's the BOAT, thy WILL the HELM, thy LIFE the SAILS doth fill. And serenely sitting, all composed, thy Soul doth grasp the helm and steers thy Barque through storms and stress, in safety past the SHOALS of DEATH. With its cargo that's consigned to HIM WHO RULES THE WINDS, THE TIDES, OH MASTER PILOT, HAIL TO THEE! THOU GIVER OF ETERNITY. 69 Coming events their shadows cast, on this all have agreed; In an endless procession that Mirror reflects the acts, the thoughts, the deeds, Oh, happy the man who has led a good life, who fears not in that Mirror to gaze, For he sees that VIRTUE REWARD HATH WON, AND THAT THE WAGE OF SIN IS DEATH. 70 Some in this life would have you believe that this FATE you cannot evade, for all EMBODY here again, and thus by the LAW OF BIRTH outrun the ACTIONS of PAST LIVES? Friends, you're reasoning in quicksands which in the end engulf; last night no more returns to earth though followed by countless suns; Neither the soul once freed from clay to a body of clay returns, nor doth the Spirit inhabit again this cast off garment of earth. THIS IS THE LAW; OH MORTALS LEARN, ALL YE WHO LOVE THE TRUE. 71