tractatus 1

The two great forces in the cosmos comprise virtue and piety; for piety guides man in understanding the world whence he originated. Divinity compels man's perception. The Godhead rewards the mortality seeking the Beloved with creed, aspiration, and love-for-all. For surely, though the Beloved has allowed much evil in the world, he has repaid Man thousandfold for all its goodness. The Seirenes flocked to the barks of Ulixes, but the Mariner understood: the beauty of the voice is fair, but the captain alone responds as the oarsmen deny. The limbs of man must raise toward the Beloved, though his mind be distraught.