Who love men and rejoice in their success ;
They have received the fulness of joy.
Who are pure and generous;
Let also the unrighteous come ;
Who seek the good of others in all that they do,?
Yea, let them that are weary of sin, come ;
To them Truth is revealed;
And they that are burdened and oppressed with the
Such stand face to face with Good, and receive the sorrows of self,
consolation of Truth.
Let them enter and be glad.
The foolish seek satisfaction in sensual pleasures; There is a Home for the homeless, and a Country The vain are pleased with the flatteries of the
for the exiled ;
world;
For the wanderer there is a happy Way, and the lost
The one leads to misery and emptiness;
have a City of Refuge.
The other to disappointment and humiliation.
Whosoever will turn, let him turn and come.
The wise abide in the joy of Truth;
Truth brings joy out of sorrow, and peace out of
And there are no pitfalls for the humble,
perturbation;
Their feet are steadfast in the way of peace.
It points the selfish to the Way of Good, and sinners
We have cancelled our compact with the world.
to the Path of Holiness.
Its pleasures are put away, abandoned, renounced. Its spirit is the doing of righteousness.
We perform the necessary uses of the world, but we To the earnest and faithful it brings consolation ; no longer rest upon its forms,
Upon the obedient and skilful it bestows the crown
No more seek satisfaction in its thirsty desires.
of peace.
Our hearts are set upon the good of all.
I take refuge in Truth :
Thus have we found the abiding sweetness of
Yea, in the spirit of Good, in the knowledge of
religion.
Good, and in the doing of Good I abide,
We have found a quiet trust and a patient
And I am reassured and comforted.
happiness.
It is to me as though malice were not, and hatred
We have resorted to the Faithful One, the
had vanished away.
everpresent Comforter,
Lust is confined to the nethermost darkness,
Even the Spirit of Holiness.
It hath no way in Truth?s transcendent Light.
We have taken shelter in His high Abode.
Pride is broken up and dissolved.
And no temptation shall draw us back into the
And vanity is melted away as a mist.
tempestuous ways of the world,
I have set my face towards the Perfect Good, and
For our refuge is a refuge indeed.
my feet in the Blameless Way ;
And because of this I am consoled.
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I am strengthened and comforted, having found
The way of self is the way of sorrow ;
refuge in Truth.
But Truth refreshes the weary, and lifts up the
oppressed.
Truth as Redeemer
There is gladness for the grief-sticken,
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And healing for them that are afflicted with the
sorrows of the world.
TRUTH is our Redeemer.
There is a place of freedom where the chains of sin Truth purifies our hearts and bestows upon us the are broken,
glorious gift of divine Love.
Where weeping is not, and lamentation is no more There is no salvation in selfishness.
heard.
Self is the vessel of sin and the receptacle of sorrow
There is a Friend for the friendless,
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