By discipline the mirror burnish of thy mind.
Discharge thyself of every particle of self;
So shalt thou see thyself pure, free from soil of pelf.35
Within thy heart thou’lt see the wisdom of the saints,
Without a book, a teacher, or professor’s plaints.
The Prophet said: “That man is one of my true flock,
Whose heart and mind are hewn from my own calling’s rock.
His soul perceives me through the selfsame holy light
That unto me reveals his soul serenely bright.
Reports, traditions, chains of evidence, are lost;