Doing the Father’s Will

1Strengthen the feet of those who stumble, and reach out to those who are sick. Feed those who are hungry, and give rest to those who are weary. Raise up those who want to arise, and awaken those who sleep, because you are the understanding that has been unsheathed. If strength is like this, it becomes stronger.

2Be concerned about yourselves. Do not be concerned about other things that you have rejected from yourselves. Do not return to eat your vomit. Do not be eaten by worms, because you have already shaken it off. Do not become a dwelling place for the devil, because you have already brought him to nothing. Do not strengthen your collapsing obstacles as though you were a support. For the lawless one is nothing, to be treated more harshly than the just, doing his works among others.

3Therefore, do the Father’s will, because you are from him. The Father is sweet, and goodness is in his will. He knows what belongs to you, so that you may find rest in these things. For by the fruits they know what belongs to you, because the children of the Father are his fragrance, since they come from the grace of his expression. Because of this, the Father loves his fragrance and reveals it in every place. 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. For it is not the ears that smell the fragrance, but the Spirit that smells it, draws the fragrance to itself, and sinks down into the Father’s fragrance. He then shelters it and takes it to the place from which it came, from the first fragrance that has grown cold. It is something in a soul-endowed delusion, like cold water sunk into loose earth. Those who see it think that it is only earth. Afterward, it dissolves again. If a breath draws it, it becomes warm. Thus, the fragrances that are cold come from division. Because of this, faith came. It dissolved the division and brought the fullness that is warm with love, so that the cold might not return, but rather the unitary thought of completion.