The Art Of Living
Wisdom Of The Ancients

Part 12
The Good Mind

The good mind does not have two tongues, one of blessing and of cursing, of insult and of honour, of sorrow and of joy of quietness and of confusion, of hypocrisy and of truth, of poverty and of wealth, but it has one disposition, incorrupt and pure, concerning all men. It has no double sight, or double hearing, for in everything which he does, or speaks, or sees, he knows that the Lord looks on his soul and he cleanses his mind that he may not be condemned by men as well as by God. In like manner the works of Satan are twofold, and there is no singleness in them. Therefore I tell you, flee the malice of Satan, for he gives a sword to them that obey him and the sword is the mother of seven evils.
First the mind conceives through Satan, and first there is bloodshed, second, ruin, third, tribulation, fourth, exile, fifth, dearth, sixth, panic, seventh, destruction.
Therefore was Cain also delivered over to seven vengeances by God, for in every hundred years the Lord brought one plague upon him and when he was two hundred years old he began to suffer and in the nine hundredth year he was destroyed, for on account of Abel, his brother, with all the evils was he judged.

A man that has a pure mind in love looks not after a woman with a view to fornication, for he has no defilement in his heart, because the Spirit of God rests upon him. For as the sun is not defiled by shining on dung and mire, but rather dries up both and drives away the evil smell, so also the pure mind, though encompassed by the defilements of earth, rather cleanses them and is not itself defiled.

As many as believe on Him on the earth shall rejoice with Him, then also all men shall rise, some unto glory and some unto shame and the Lord shall judge Israel first, for their unrighteousness, for when He appeared as God in the flesh to deliver them they believed Him not and then shall He judge all the Gentiles, as many as believed Him not when He appeared upon earth and He shall convict Israel through the chosen ones of the Gentiles.