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pain," for instance, 
may be read XVII x 22 
"the expression of Star-love," and so on: all too 
complicated for this time and place!) 
V.32: 
Then the joys of my love (Le., the fulfilment of all 
possible experiences) will redeem ye from all pain. 
V.58: 
I give unimaginable joys on earth; certainty, not faith, 
while in life, upon death; peace) unutterable, rest 
ecstasy. 
Cap. II, v. 9: 
Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the 
sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but 
there is that which remains. 
(The continuation is amusing! Vv. 10 and 11 read:) 
o prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. I see 
thee hate the hand and the pen; but I am stronger. 
At that time I was a hard-shell Buddhist, sent out a New 
Year's 
Card 
"wishing 
you a speedy termination 
of 
existence!" And this as a young man, with the world at my 
feet. It only goes to show ... ) 
Vv. 19,20: 
Is a God to live in a dog? No; but the highest are of us. 
Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious 
languor, force and fire, are of us. 
This chapter returns over and over again to this theme in 
one form or another. 
1. "Peace": the glow of satisfaction at achievement. It is not "eternal," rather, it 
whets the appetite for another adventure. (Peace, = 180 = 7 x 9 x 13 = the 
Venusian plus Lunar form of Unity.)