Doing the Father’s Will
1Strengthen the feet of those who stumble, and reach out to those who are sick.
2Feed those who are hungry, and give rest to those who are weary.
3Raise up those who want to arise, and awaken those who sleep, because you’re the understanding that’s unsheathed.
4If strength is like this, it becomes stronger.
5Be concerned about yourselves.
6Don’t be concerned about other things which you’ve rejected from yourselves.
7Don’t return to eat your vomit.
8Don’t be eaten by worms, because you’ve already shaken it off.
9Don’t become a dwelling-place for the devil, because you’ve already brought him to naught.
10Don’t strengthen your obstacles which are collapsing, as though you’re a support.
11For the lawless one is nothing, to be treated more harshly than the just, doing his works among others.
12Do then the Father’s will, because you’re from him.
13For the Father is sweet, and goodness is in his will.
14He knows what’s yours, that you may find rest in them.
15For by the fruits they know what’s yours, because the children of the Father are his fragrance, since they’re from the grace of his expression.
16Because of this, the Father loves his fragrance, and reveals it in every place.
17And when it mixes with matter, it gives his fragrance to the light, and in tranquility he causes it to rise above every form and every sound.
18For it’s not the ears that smell the fragrance, but it’s the Spirit that smells, and draws the fragrance to itself, and sinks down into the Father’s fragrance.
19He shelters it, then, and takes it to the place from which it came, from the first fragrance which has grown cold.
20It’s something in a soul-endowed delusion, like cold water sunk into loose earth.
21Those who see it think that it’s just earth.
22Afterwards, it dissolves again.
23If a breath draws it, it becomes warm.
24So the fragrances which are cold are from the division.
25Because of this, faith came.
26It dissolved the division, and it brought the fullness that’s warm with love, so that the cold may not return, but rather the unitary thought of completion.