Passage 8

In English

Thus, and represent and . Humanness represents the combination of (or Nature) and . These two are not disparate. Just as fire and the power to burn go together, these two go together. Sugar and sweetness are similarly interrelated. There is no sugar without sweetness. Where there is sweetness there is sugar. Likewise and are symbiotically related to each other. Hence these should be regarded as present in man in the form of and . The whole of (nature)is (the feminine half of the Divine couple). Any man who has no and is verily a corpse. Although both (as God,) and (as Nature) are present in man, by ignoring God (lacking earnestness) man wastes his life. Earnestness and faith together constitute spirituality. Without these, all spiritual exercises have no value.