8 Through these our deeds of sacrifice and zeal, they are terrified among whom there was once destruction, and for many, at the time when the oppressor of Thy holy vows was as the stronger oppressing the weaker. They who have not thought in consonance with Thy Righteous Order, from these Thy Good Mind abideth afar.

9 Aye, they who desert Thy bountiful Piety, O Wise One, that one desired of Thee, O Thou omniscient, and who thus abandon her by reason of the evil-doer, and in their ignorance of Thy Good Mind, from such as these Piety with her holiness utterly departs, as the red noxious creatures that destroy and pollute all life flee from us, Thy faithful servants.

10 Through the action of this His Good Mind, as it works its grace within us, the benevolently wise One declared a result as its fruit, He knowing the bountiful Piety, which brings forth the righteous. These all, O God, the Wise Lord, in Thy Kingdom are helps to our progress, for they smite our tyrants with fear.

11 And for Thee hath Piety increased both the Universal Weal and its continuance in Immortality, and with them, ever united, the Righteous Order, established and made firm in the Kingdom of Thy Good Mind. Those powerful lasting two hath she increased, to give us the needful food. And through these, O Wise One, dost Thou drive out hate. Thou removest Thy foes afar!

12 What then are Thy regulations? And what wilt Thou? What of praise, or of fuller offering? Speak forth that we hear it, O Wise One, what will establish the blessed rewards of Thine ordinance! Teach Thou us the paths through Righteousness, those verily trod by Thy Good Mind as it lives within Thy saints.

13 Do I ask what is that path? That way which Thou declarest to me as the path of the Good Mind, O God, is made in its parts by the religious precepts and laws of the Saviours, wherein the well-doer thrives from his righteousness. And it marks for the good a reward of which Thou art Thyself the bestower.

14 For that reward, O Wise One, Thou hast given as the one to be chosen for our bodily life through the deeds of Thy Good Mind in us. They who work in the toil of the mother Kine, these further Thy merciful care through the understanding's action, and are taught by Thine Order's word.

15 Yea, show me, O Wise One, that path and its reward; tell me the best of truths; reveal the best words and best actions, and the confessing prayer of the praiser, through Thy Good Mind living within us, and through the Righteous Order, O God! And by Thy Sovereign Power and grace mayest Thou make life really progressive, till perfection shall have been reached!