The way to Enlightment
Fear God and love your neighbor and use no deceit, swear not, neither lie and let all your actions be sincere. Here, O man! is the grand Seal of all earthly "wisdom, the true talisman of human happiness. When you shall accomplish this, behold nothing will be impossible to you as far as God permits it then with all speed apply Your mind and heart to attain knowledge and wisdom with all humility through Your dependence on God alone, the author of all things that cannot die .barret magus
The path of light .
To know yourself is to know God, for it is a spiritual gift from God that enables a man to know himself. This gift very few profess, as may be daily seen. How many are there tossed about to and fro’ upon the dangerous sea of contending passions, and who are more light than feathers! How many in this great world who place their chief test good in wickedness and lechery! See their actions, manners, and dispositions these poor, unfortunate, miserable victims, such is their fatal dreamlike obsession and ignorance that they think those mad who might even attempt to reason with them on the vanity and misery of their situation. To make myself more intelligible, these are what the world calls men of fashion, a phrase insignificant enough when we consider that the universal fashion of this time is vice, and that so glaring, that it needs no great intellect to discover what is daily open the view of the observer. But to you, my friend, I have addressed these lines therefore let it not be supposed that I am reprehending my friend for vices which I cannot suppose him attached to , for I know you are a young man designed for the receiving of instruction, in much higher and more glorious contemplations than those sons of earth are capable of, therefore I have presented you with this translation which you desire me to give to you.
But beware of flattery, self-Love and covetousness, so you will thrive; and be diligent in your occupation, so shall your body be fed. Idleness is offensive to the Deity, industry shall sweeten Your brown bread, and the fruits of it shall warm your heart, and inspire Your foul with gratitude to him that blesses you with enough, seek for no more, for it will damn you; pray for enough to feed and clothe Your body, but ask no more, leaf; thou pine away in heart-rending poverty, and spend the remainder of Your days in contumely and beggary. For now a thing most necessary for thee to know, that if by Your study, by Your art, or any other thing, you couldn’t command a million of spirits, it should not be lawful for thee to with to gain riches suddenly, for the Wisdom Eternal has put forth the fiat ; and it has been said by him who never spoke in vain, and who cannot lye, that man ball get bread by the sweat of his brow ; therefore let us not have in view the enriching of ourselves in worldly goods, by supernatural means, or by a greedy desiring of what we ought to look upon with eyes of contempt, draw upon us the wrath of God. Rather let us cheerfully rely on, and follow in very deed, spirit and truth, these words of the apostle, “ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things {hall be added unto you fear not but that God shall make Your household as a flourishing tree, and Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine. Farewell, remember my poor counsel, and be happy.
From Your true friend,
Charlie No.1
Ben Franks
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Doughboy.
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