It Is Man's Duty To Love And

In The Realm Of Nature There Is Nothing Purposeless, Trivial, Or Unnecessary

To The Totality Of Purposes Of The Perfect Law There Belong The Abandonment, Depreciation, And Restraint Of Desires In So Far As Possible.

The First Kind Of Evil Is That Which Is Caused To Man By The Circumstance That He Is Subject To Genesis And Destruction, Or That He Possesses A Body.

Eliphas Never Abandoned His Belief That The Fate Of Man Is The Result Of Justice, That We Do Not Know All Our Shortcomings For Which We Are Punished, Nor The Way How We Incur The Punishment Through Them.

To Sum Up: I Am The Man Who When The Concern Pressed Him And His Way Was Straitened And He Could Find No Other Device By Which To Teach A Demonstrable Truth Other Than By Giving Satisfaction To A Single Virtuous Man While Displeasing Ten Thousand Ignoramuses - I Am He Who Prefers To Address That Single Man By Himself, And I Do Not Heed The Blame Of Those Many Creatures.