Brother In Messiah

A few excerpts from chapter 9

…What is it that is most beneficial to health?

4 And he said, ‘Temperance, and it is not possible to acquire this unless Alahim create a disposition towards it.’

…The king expressed agreement and asked the next, how he could become an eager listener?

8 And he said, ‘By remembering that all knowledge is useful, because it enables you by the help of Alahim in a time of emergency to select some of the things which you have learned and apply them to the crisis which confronts you. And so the efforts of men are fulfilled by the assistance of Alahim.’

…the king asked another, how he could attain freedom from fear?

14 And he said, ‘When the mind is conscious that it has wrought no evil, and when Alahim directs it to all noble counsels.’

…What is the grossest form of neglect?

23 And he replied, ‘If a man does not care for his children and devote every effort to their education. For we always pray to Alahim not so much for ourselves as for our children that every blessing may be theirs. Our desire that our children may possess self-control is only realized by the power of Alahim.’..

…28 The king expressed his agreement and asked the next, how he could be free from error?

29 And he replied, ‘If you always act with deliberation and never give credence to slanders, but prove for yourself the things that are said to you and decide by your own judgement the requests which are made to you and carry out everything in the light of your judgement, you will be free from error, O King. But the knowledge and practice of these things is the work of the Divine power.’…

…What is goal of speech? And he replied, ‘To convince your opponent by showing him his mistakes in a well-ordered army of arguments.

52 For in this way you will win your hearer, not by opposing him, but by bestowing praise upon him with a view to persuading him. And it is by the power of Alahim that persuasion is accomplished.’…

…What is it that maintains gratitude and honour?

65 And he replied, ‘Virtue, for it is the creator of good deeds, and by it evil is destroyed, even as you exhibit nobility of character towards all by the gift which Alahim bestows upon you.’…