Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?

God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.