Epistles

Presume not with mind alone to scan,
For the world is grasped with guided hand,
With action is the final layer unpeeled,
Thus, the glory of the world revealed.

Presume not the I of the self to scan,
The proper study of mankind is man,
By all is the mark of each subject sealed,
This, the glory of the self revealed.

Wear not then the veil of ascetic retreat
Obscuring the self and world that you seek,
Engage though action with all who surround,
Therein does the glory of the truth abound.