The Book of Ethics

The Service Concerning the Death Which Is to Come.

And how is it found: that he descended to the world: but he cannot. And all the souls that were: were witnesses of what is to come. And fear from that which of original: "d-len" (sic) us: we; and all of them are established in new mercy: to the kingdom he sent: and the precedence for it he confirmed. For that suffices, he who counts it: and from one place to places he leads it. This is its body: and a long discipline. And the Father is salvation: the renewal of the sacrifice which is to come: the rivers of sweetness, however, ascend: and in the time of the worlds, between the boughs. And where, by the hand of divinity: those cities of the world: and to the body, a building he will make. And every resurrection, a wonder I have placed: for him who does not believe. But he placed it among the lives that were finished there and fulfilled life: and like the dead, the buildings, all of them, are rolling. May the divisions descend, the bright lives: and may the flames of likenesses be kindled. May the living be revived like the lambs: and those buried, like the times. And those who entered it, they were made ready: and the end was seen. Because I have placed the intellect: and the service for it is just. But from a distance, he brought it near: and the cessation for the intellect will descend to me from it. That one, however, like the living: places new things: in the flourishing of hopes: and in the living, prophetic ones. Because I am awake for you in my treasures: and the inner bonds of the body are cleansed. And every body for it is all light: and that one, from everything, may life come. And the fear: gives birth to the word: alive, alive all of them: not everything which is not thus, thus. Because it does not reach: and for rejoicing it does not cause. When thus: thus. To us, however, I say, Love.