But if ye wish to understand their words

And to receive through them the light yourselves

Ye must not by pre-judgment blind yourselves.

The power of the initiates will now

Prove itself mighty, wheresoe’er it finds

Good hearts and wills prepared to offer up

Erroneous fancies to the light of truth;

But where the will hath grown through error hard

And thus hath slain the sense of truth itself,

This power will there be proved of none effect.