General Defense of the Honorable Women's Craft

queen and diligent governess, must only strive and take care that the earthly be distinguished from the spiritual, and the temporal from the eternal, so that the creature is not loved more than the Creator, and thus the essence of the matter remains in its eternal truth.

You call it an incessant struggle, a daily injury! In such a way, I will concede this to you also, if, as Job says, the life of man is a pure struggle, and if man, in a short constitution, contains the great world within himself. If the heavens themselves strive and struggle with the greatest force to return to their center point. If the stars themselves struggle against one another until, and as long as, their ordained goal is reached. If the traveling rivers do not rest until, and as long as, they pour themselves back into the lap of their