Book 4 Physical Life
the Archetype of the Daughter, the suit of Coins which grants unto us knowledge
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and earth's good geniuses
Paying to them such honours as are due.
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Know this for truth, and learn to conquer these :
Thy belly first ; sloth, luxury, and rage.
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Many the reasonings that on men's ears
Fall ; good and bad. Admire not all of such
Nor shun them neither.
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Do naught thou dost not understand ; but learn
That which is good, and sweet will be thy life.
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Toil at and practise this : this must thou love ;
This to the Path of Heavenly Virtue leads.
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And thou shalt know that Law hath stablished
The inner nature of all things alike.
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For bitter inborn strife companions them
And does them secret harm. Provoke it not,
O men, but yield, and yielding, find escape.
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And sacred Nature all things hid reveals.
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And if at length,
Leaving behind thy body, thou dost come
To the free Upper Air, then shalt thou be
Deathless, divine, a mortal man no more.
