O Soul..

this visible Bema (mercy seat), the Word,
has been set before thee that it may sow
in thee through what is visible the memory
of the hidden Law which thou hast forgotten
since the day thou didst drink the water of
the madness.
O Soul, see, to thee has come the grace of the Day
of Rejoicing ; do thou reveal without fear all thy sins
today and remember thy end and prepare thyself in
thy works, for the Bema of Wisdom moves thee thereto.
This is the way of truth, this is the stairway that leads on high,
which shall take us on these holy steps!
From the beginning he is this Way, namely the First Man,
and Jesus the Radiant, and the Spiritual Advocate;
they have summoned thee ..
O Soul !

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