Let thine acts declare the life within, happiness doth express the soul that dwells therein.
While sadness that bitter fruit which has been here maintained, is the vine from which all life its being drew,
Ah friends, this is an error sad indeed, for happiness was the grape from which the wine of life was pressed, not sorrow's prickly pears.
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From those fair points the [22]five great truths, by which we're raised by master hands,
Their secrets then within the man are placed, guard well! For once revealed no more can they be hid!
Thus born of fire the cause of life supreme, in earth your soul was cast, in air thy thoughts took wing.
And from the brooding waters, knowledge took shape and came, as the means of man's deliverance from birth and from the grave.
This triple knowledge has been told how EARTH the body is, and fire the soul, air is life's thoughts, and the waters the sacred lore contain.