2. No man lives unto himself, for every living thing is bound by cords to every other living thing. 3. Blessed are the pure in heart; for they will love and not demand love in return. 4. They will not do to other men what they would not have other men do unto them. 5. There are two selves; the higher and the lower self. 6. The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of Allah. 7. The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflection of higher self, distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh. 8. The lower self is an illusion and will pass away; the higher self is Allah in man, and will not pass away. 9. The higher self is the embodiment of truth, the lower self is truth reversed and so is falsehood manifest. 10. The higher self is justice, mercy, love and right; the lower self is what the higher self is not. 11. The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness, murders, theft, and everything that harms, the higher self is mother of the virtues and the harmonies of life. 12. The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy and satisfying gain; but gives unrest, misery and death. 13. It gives men apples that are lovely to the eye and pleasant to the smell; their cores are full of bitterness and gall. 14. If you would ask me what to study, I would say, yourselves; and when you well have studied them; and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply, yourselves. 15. He who knows well his lower self, knows the illusions of the world, knows of the things that pass away; and he who knows his higher self, know Allah; knows well the things that cannot pass away. 16. Thrice blessed is the man who has made purity and love his very own; he has been ransomed from the perils of the lower self and is himself his higher self.
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