y son, you ought with all diligence to work toward this, that in every place, and in every external action or occupation, you may be inwardly free, and thoroughly master of yourself. That all things be under you, and not you under them; that you be lord and master of your own actions, not a slave or a hireling. Rather you should be as a freed man and a true Hebrew, passing over into the lot and freedom of the sons of God; who stand upon things present, and contemplate things eternal; who look on transitory things with the left eye, and with the right on the things of Heaven; whom temporal things do not entrap. Rather they make temporal things serve them well, in such ways as they are ordained by God, and appointed by the great Work-master, who has left nothing in His creation without due order.
If in every event you stand not on the outside, nor with a carnal eye survey things seen or heard, but in every affair enter with Moses into the Tabernacle† to ask counsel of the Lord, you will sometimes hear the Divine Oracle, and will return instructed concerning many things, both present and to come. For Moses always had recourse to the Tabernacle for the dissolving of doubts and questions , and fled to the help of prayer, for
