Final Proverbs

1. A sermon is sacred, and the heart of wisdom is the truth: Speak wisdom in your soul, and make your Heart's Psalms like scripture.

2. For, all wisdom comes from witness, and all scripture the same: What we know about God, is knowledge worth revealing to another.

3. Yet, be admonished my Son, there are only those books given. Do not add to them, and do not subtract.

4. For, sermons, hymns, epistles, proverbs, psalms and prophecies do not belong with scripture.

5. The LORD will sharpen your lines, and make the paint formed to its patterns. The wise man does not know: "How did this happen LORD?"

6. All talents are received by God's mercy, and all works of charity the same. There can be no good thing done, without the LORD to bless it.

7. If the LORD establish your wisdom, it will be a diadem of righteousness in your crown.

8. Seek the LORD in all things, and do not forsake the ministry of others.

9. Because a thing is not scripture, forsake it not. Because a wise man is not Christian, forsake him not.

10. The wise are not ostriches, who force their heads into the sand to keep from seeing. They are not hyenas, whose genitals shift with their every whim.

11. The wise are not rabbits, who fornicate even with their next of kin. The wise are not lions, who seek after the prey.

12. The wise are not eagles, who soar high and espy the prey upon the Earth. The wise are not dogs, who sodomize.

13. The wise are sheep, who chew the cud over and over again, and make a grainy food easy to digest. The wise are cattle with horns, who wound the jackal.

14. The wise are doves, who fly close to their mate no matter the storm. The wise are geese, who adore their goslings and hiss at nearby danger.

15. The wise are like locusts, and spread their sayings across the land. The wise are like ants, and busy themselves with work but sting when their hive is crushed.

16. The flowers appear in their times: the land is sown in the spring; it is watched in the summer; it is harvested in autumn; it is ploughed during winter.

17. The moon governs the seasons, and the sun also, and the stars. That is all they are for, and not for divination.

18. There is a miser who wishes to destroy all that is sacred. He alters the sayings of the wise, and men forget their wisdom.

19. Do not forget, my Son, wisdom. The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. A word arranged is not as important as what it speaks.

20. The wisest man can perceive a thought, no matter how obscure. The most foolish cannot even understand a plain saying.

21. Much strife is in the colleges, to strain a camel and swallow a gnat. They throw out the most useful, and keep the dross like it were silver.

22. When I see the wise, they strive to know what "Is", and they cannot. Therefore, they question it.

23. Use this knowledge, my friends, to reconsider your paths, and watch your mind. Put it to use, and do not forsake reason.

24. For valid inquiries ought to reveal the LORD, not diminish Him. Therefore, do not be afraid to question.

25. However, when the world has changed, and there is no more wisdom, and no more can be seen of the Son of God---for Satan has purged Wisdom from the Earth---look up, for our Redemption draws nigh.

26. In the clouds of heaven, will our redeemer appear, and with Him a cloud of witnesses, of what abominations man had done upon the Earth;

27. To steal from the wise, and make him sad, and to uplift the wicked, and make him fat and glad.

28. Therefore, do not be late! Seek Wisdom now, while it is still plentiful upon the Earth, and do not wait another second. The LORD is merciful, but for a second the wicked vanish, and they are no more. They go down to their habitation in hell, and what was all the treasure they heaped up on Earth? It could not save them in that day.

29. Yet, there is a wicked man who covets the prized pearls of another: Thus, he snatches it and says, "Solomon spoke it in his book, therefore I am clean."

30. You shall go to hell, you foul Cretan. For being an abomination. At the last, you truly believe it was yours. But, in your heart you know.

31. And at the last, at old age, you sigh and say "It was never really true. There is no judgment from God. I can eat the pealed grapes, and the marrow, and the choicest of the vine."

32. At that moment, death will snatch you, and the wise man will be refuted no more.

33. The wise man shall enter into Wisdom, and Mercy, and Peace, and stand at the throne and give a good account.

34. You shall stand there, naked, as if approaching the feast: "Where was your garment?" Shall the LORD speak.

35. You shall be silent.

36. The wise man will eat pleasant things, and drink pleasant things, and be accompanied by pleasant thoughts and aromas.

37. The wise man shall have lovers in all, for he loved them even when a stranger.

38. He saw them, and was stern, and scared for their life. Yet, he would die for the party of his entourage. 

39. He will call to Wisdom, "Be my bride!" and he will call to Peace, "Thou art worthy!" and he will call to Mercy, "I am thy friend."

40. Therefore, all things considered, a man will prosper but a little while in his wicked deeds. He will have children, and even find charity in his heart toward them.

41. But his wicked deeds will not go unpunished, and he will account for the calamity his mind had caused.

42. The wise shall consider carefully the paths of the blessed, and see fortune is to be kept where moth and rust cannot corrode.