Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

A CHRISTIAN ROMANCE. 49
"and it is the tabernacle whereby meat and drink
"enter, and wherefrom good and evil sounds come.
"Blessed is the man who bringeth forth good
"things, and who leaveth those which are bad in
"his heart, and who never remembereth them in
"his heart until at length, through the power of
"discernment which is therein, they are forgotten.
"The mouth, then, is the fourth door of the heart."
CHAPTER XVI.
"And again the sense of Touch in the hand is The sfth
"a door of the heart, for when the hand hathhe^t.°
"touched a thing it maketh it known to the heart,
"and it knoweth in the darkness by touch without
"feeling, whether it be something hot or something
"soft. Now the hand draweth nigh unto the touch
"of that which is good by means of the power
"of discernment which it hath. Whosoever toucheth
"knoweth whether a thing is good or whether it
"is bad, and there is a sense of touch which
"maketh itself manifest to the heart and which
"worketh with its power of discernment in the
"heart of a man, so that he turneth aside from the
"touch of that which is evil. The touch, then, is
"the fifth door of the heart."
CHAPTER XVII.
"And again, the sixth door of the heart is the The sixth
door of the
"power of Motion, and this is the door which
"leadeth a man to lack of will. And he ceaseth
"to stand up in prayer through laziness and through
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heart.