“But I am the Morning and the Evening Star, and lord of the day and the night. By the power that is put in my left hand, and the power that I grasp in my right, I am lord of the two ways.
“And my flower on earth is the jasmine flower, and in heaven the flower Hesperus.
“I will not command you, nor serve you, for the snake goes crooked to his own house.
“Yet I will be with you, so you depart not from yourselves.
“There is no giving, and no taking. When the fingers that give touch the fingers that receive, the Morning Star shines at once, from the contact, and the jasmine gleams between the hands. And thus there is neither giving nor taking, nor hand that proffers nor hand that receives, but the star between them is all, and the dark hand and the light hand are invisible on each side. The jasmine takes the giving and the receiving in her cup, and the scent of the oneness is fragrant on the air.
“Think neither to give nor to receive, only let the jasmine flower.
“Let nothing spill from you in excess, let nothing be reived from you.
“And reive nothing away. Not even the scent from the rose, nor the juice from the pomegranate, nor the warmth from the fire.
“But say to the rose: Lo! I take you away from your tree, and your breath is in my nostrils, and my breath is warm in your depths. Let it be a sacrament between us.
“And beware when you break the pomegranate; it is sunset