Part 8
As A Man Thinks, So Is He.

There is no inclination or thought which the Lord knows not, for He created every man after His own image. For as a man’s strength is, so also in his work, as his eye, so also in his sleep, as his soul, so also in his word either in the law of the Lord or in the law of Satan. As there is a division between light and darkness, between seeing and hearing, so also is there a division between man and man, and between woman and woman, and it is not to be said that the one is like the other either in face or in mind, for God made all things good in their order, the five senses in the head, and He joined on the neck to the head, adding to it the hair also for comeliness and glory, then the heart for understanding, the stomach for grinding, and the bowels for excrement, the windpipe for taking in the breath, the liver for wrath, the gall for bitterness, the spleen for laughter, the reins for prudence, the muscles of the loins for power, the lungs for drawing in, the loins for strength and so forth. So then, let all your works be done in order with good intent in the fear of God, and do nothing disorderly in scorn or out of its due season.
For if you bid the eye to hear, it cannot, so neither while you are in darkness can you do the works of light. Be therefore, not eager to corrupt your doings through covetousness or with vain words to beguile your souls, because if you keep silence in purity of heart, you shall understand how to hold fast the will of God, and to cast away the will of Satan.
The sun, moon and stars change not their order, so you do also, change not the law of God in the disorderliness of your doings. If you work that which is good, both men and angels shall bless you, and God shall be glorified among men through you, and the devil shall flee from you and the Lord shall love you, and the angels shall cleave to you. As a man who has trained a child well is kept in kindly remembrance, so also for a good work there is a good remembrance before God. But a man that does not do that which is good, both angels and men shall curse, and God shall be dishonoured among men through him, and the devil shall make him as his own peculiar instrument and the Lord shall hate him.

The commandments of the law are twofold, and through prudence must they be fulfilled. For there is a season for a man to embrace his wife, and a season to abstain there from for his prayer, so then there are two commandments, and unless they are done in due order, they can bring very great sin upon men. So also is it with the other commandments. Be therefore wise in God and prudent, understanding the order of His commandments, and the laws of every word, that the Lord may love you, hearken to the words of truth, to work righteousness, and all the law of the Most High, and go not astray through the spirit of hatred, for it is evil in all the doings of men.

Part: 9
He Who Hates Despises The Truth