Odes of Solomon Quote – “Keep my secret, you who are kept by it…”

Keep my secret, you who are kept by it. Keep my faith, you who are kept by it. Learn what I know, you whom my truth has known. Love me with love, you whom I have loved. Pray without ceasing, dwell in the love of the Lord, you who are loved in the Well-beloved, you who are living in the […]

Living Book, Odes of Solomon (circa 1st-century A.D.), The Seeker

Odes of Solomon Quote – “The mind of man as a mirror of glass…”

God hath framed the mind of man as a mirror of glass, capable of the image of the universal world, and joyful to receive the impression thereof, as the eye joyeth to receive light. Odes of Solomon (circa 1st-century A.D.)

Living Book, Odes of Solomon (circa 1st-century A.D.), The Sacred

Odes of Solomon Quote – “For God grants wisdom from His mouth…”

For God grants wisdom from His mouth together with perception and practical wisdom, and stores up help for the righteous. Odes of Solomon (circa 1st-century A.D.)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss[ess];
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)

Odes of Solomon (circa 1st-century A.D.)

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