Let Nothing Which Can Be Treated By

Work Before Eating, Rest After Eating. Eat Not Ravenously, Filling The Mouth Gulp After Gulp Without Breathing Space.

The Question, "what Is The Purpose Thereof?" Cannot Be Asked About Anything Which Is Not The Product Of An Agent; Therefore We Cannot Ask What Is The Purpose Of The Existence Of God.

It Is Not Unreasonable To Assume That The Works Of God, Their Existence And Preceding Non-existence, Are The Result Of His Wisdom, But We Are Unable To Understand Many Of The Ways Of His Wisdom In His Works. On This Principle The Whole Law Of Moses Is Based; It Begins With This Principle: "and God Saw All That He Had Made, And Behold, It Was Very Good" (gen. I. 31); And It Ends With This Principle: "the Rock, Perfect Is His Work" (deut. Xxxii. 4). Note It.

The Whole Object Of The Prophets And The Sages Was To Declare That A Limit Is Set To Human Reason Where It Must Halt.

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.