834 He first sent forth, and then began he: “Brother, The world is blind, and sooth thou comest from it! Ye who are living every cause refer 835 Still upward to the heavens, as if all things They of necessity moved with themselves. 836 If this were so, in you would be destroyed 837 Free will, nor any justice would there be In having joy for good, or grief for evil. The heavens your movements do initiate, I say not all; but granting that I say it, Light has been given you for good and evil, And free volition; which, if some fatigue In the first battles with the heavens it suffers, Afterwards conquers all, if well ’tis nurtured. 838 To greater force and to a better nature, 839 Though free, ye subject are, and that creates The mind in you the heavens have not in charge. Hence, if the present world doth go astray,
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