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Ode 20
A mixture of ethics and mysticism; of the golden rule and the tree of life.
1I am a priest of the Lord, and to Him I do priestly service: and to Him I offer the sacrifice of His thought.
2For His thought is not like the thought of the world nor the thought of the flesh, nor like them that serve carnally.
3The sacrifice of the Lord is righteousness, and purity of heart and lips.
4Present your reins before Him blamelessly: and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to soul.
5Thou shalt not acquire a stranger by the price of thy silver, neither shalt thou seek to devour thy neighbour,
6Neither shalt thou deprive him of the covering of his nakedness.
7But put on the grace of the Lord without stint; and come into His Paradise and make thee a garland from its tree,
8And put it on thy head and be glad; and recline on His rest, and glory shall go before thee,
9And thou shalt receive of His kindness and of His grace; and thou shalt be flourishing in truth in the praise of His holiness. Praise and honour be to His name. Hallelujah.