There is corn in Egypt; go thou down into her, O my soul, with joy.
For in the kingdom of the Body, thou shalt eat the bread of thine initiation.
But beware lest thou become subject to the flesh, and a bond-slave in the land of thy sojourn.
Serve not the idols of Egypt; and let not the senses be thy taskmasters.
For they will bow thy neck to their yoke; they will bitterly oppress the Israel of God.
An evil time shall come upon thee; and the Lord shall smite Egypt with plagues for thy sake.
Thy body shall be broken on the wheel of God; thy flesh shall see trouble and the worm.
Thy house shall be smitten with grievous plagues; blood, and pestilence, and great darkness; fire shall devour thy goods; and thou shalt be a prey to the locust and creeping thing.
Thy glory shall be brought down to the dust; hail and storm shall smite thine harvest; yea, thy beloved and thy first-born shall the hand of the Lord destroy;
Until the body let the soul go free; that she may serve the Lord God.