1 The Way of God is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Origin of all things!

2 We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Way is, as if it would ever so continue!

3 I know that He was born of no one, nor has He begotten; He was before all things.