LIBER TZADDI
24. My disciples are proud and beautiful
; they are strong
and swift; they rule their way like mighty conquerors.
25. The weak, the timid, the imperfect, the cowardly, the
poor, the tearful—these are mine enemies, and I am come to
destroy them.
26. This also is compassion : an end to the sickness of
earth.
A rooting-out of the weeds: a watering of the flowers.
27. O my children, ye are more beautiful than the flowers :
ye must not fade in your season.
28. I love you
; I would sprinkleyou with the divine dew of
immortality.
29. This immortality is no vain hope beyond the grave:
I offer you the certain consciousness of bliss.
30. I offer it at once, on earth ; before an hour hath struck
upon the bell, ye shall be with Me in the Abodes that are
beyond Decay.
31. Also I give you power earthly and joy earthly
; wealth,
and health, and length of days.
Adoration and love shall cling
to your feet, and twine around your heart.
32. Only your mouths shall drink of a delicious wine-the
wine of Iacchus ; they shall reach ever to the heavenly kiss of
the Beautiful God.
33. I reveal unto you a great mystery.
Ye stand between
the abyss of height and the abyss of depth.
34. In either awaits you a Companion; and that Com-
panion is Yourself.
35. Ye can have no other Companion.
36. Many have arisen, being wise.
They have said “ Seek
out the glittering Image in the place ever golden, and unite
yourselves with It.”
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