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ee ’ MOLY INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PROPHET THE BREATH OF HEAVEN 2 SMG enim, ecomes therein thy wail resideth. fs not the master of the house 2 The grmad asst be prepared before corn be jlanted; the * petect maust build his furnace before he can make hia porcelain. 2 As the breath of heaven sayeth unto the waters of the decp, 7% This way shall thy billows roll, and no other; Thus high, and no higher ; ghall they raise their fury; > Jet thy spirit, O man, actuate and direct 2 ty Gash: we bet it repress its wilderness, 5, The tnuly io as the hile uf the earth; thy bones the pillars that & As the ccean giveth rise te springs, whose watets return again ae into its bowum thragh the rivers; ww runneth thy hie from thy out- wards, and su runneth it into ite place again. 7. Do ma leah retain ther course forever? Dehold. the sane "Allah ordained them. Bde sca thy nose the channel tu perfumes, thy mouth the path to selicacies ? 9. Are got thine eyes the sentinels that watch for thee? Yer how ofsen are they enable to distiiuish truth from error. 10. lheep thy seul im muderatua: teach thy spent to be attenave @ its good; so shail these its niinisters be always to thee conveyances of truth. HM. Thine hand ib net a muiracie? [a there in che creation aught like wato a?) Wherefore was it xiven thee, but that thow mightest stretch : it owt to the assistance of thy brother > 12. Why of all thangs hving art thou alune made capable of blushing? The world shall read thy shame upun thy face: therefore du oo nothing shamelul. 18. Fear aud diay, who rob thy countenance of its ruddy ; aplendiaur* Avoid puilt, and thom shala know that fear is beneaih chee; dismay is unnamely. 14. Wherefore to thee alone speaks shadows in the vision of the pillow? Kevercise them: for know, that dieams are {rom on hugh 1S. Thow man alune canst speak. Wunder at thy gloria pre- rogative: and pay to him who gave it thee a ratwnal and welcome praue. aching thy children wisdom, imatructing the ulfapring of thy los im piety. CHAPTER XXXVIL HOLY INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PROPHET ee THE SOUL OF MAN 1. The blessing, O man of thy external part, are health, vigor end ot aah The yrestest of these ia beak. What henlth ie to the 4. Kaise it not 100 high, thet thua be wot dispised, thon ke wow thuse whe tall by climbing; neluker debase it to the nanee ot brutes, nur he thos like ww the hore and the mule, is whuse there is au understanding. wax! .\s if is une sun that worketh both even so it is one soul willeth contraries. bei eat? te minoe Festrainet h her nature, thou darkness spread itself jure ace as a curtain; so the soul remai bosom af a feoe wD eth pertect, even in the 4. She is inaportal ; she is unchaneable; she is alike in all. Heakth calkth her forth 10 show her joveliness, and wat i ee ore and applicatiun anoiaseth ber 10. \ihough she shall live alter chee, think not she was bors before thee. She was creaied with thy flesh, and formed wuh thy brain. Hl. Justice could mot give her w thee exhaulted Ly virtues, nos mercy deliver her tu thee defurmed by view. These must be thine, and thou nut answer fur them. 12. Suppose nut death can shield thee from examinatie; think Bot Corruption can hide thee irom incuiry. be who formed thee from thou imowest not what, can he mot reise thee from thou koowest not what again? 13. Perceiveth not the covk the hogr of midnight? Echaulteth he not his voice to tell thee it is anemning? = Kioweth nut the dog the fuoteteps of his master? Fheth not the wounded guat unto the herb that bealcth tun? Yer when these dic, their spirit returneth yo datst; thine aluse surviveth. - 24. Envy not lo these their senses, because quicker than thine own. Learn that the advantage lieth net in pussesiug food things, but im the knowing to use ther. 15. Hactet thew the car of the stag, or were thine eye ne and jwercing as the eagles; didet thom eyual the huund in senell, or the ape resigy to thee his taste, of cutid the sortoier her feeling { witha reason what would they avail thee? Perish vos all sheep 16 Ilath any one of them the gift of speech? “Cae oy my wite a. thee, “Therefure did I de?” SEA pe ete c ot : carne 7 aa were ype aero gr —~