Lecture V

> O Ye!, stream through this head with strength to move, > —Morality, and will, is revealed when man is moved to deeds.— > *O Ye!, stream through this head with strength to move, > And in good earthly deeds yourselves soon prove*. > —For the right employment of the will in the world follows from these, and also temperance.— > So boldly stamp out torment of absurdity, > —which emanates from the body in the guise of desires. Yesterday I described how what rules in the bodily passions is related to moral impulses.— > *So boldly stamp out torments contradictory, > Ennoble desire's power, wherein dark forces surge, > Abduct his soul, away from spirit-fatality*. > —This spirit-fatality is nothing but the consequence of animal passions.— > In human obsession, pathways four do merge, > —In earlier times, one called drives that originate in the body ‘obsessions’— > *Tear them away from embrace of infirmity. > Conquer the fires in which the senses groan, > Illumine that which dies in pleasure, > And hear how speak in ensouled tone > The powers that match eternal measure*. > —For deeds of karma work in eternity.— > *Attempt to strive in world-willed action, > Awaken him to life-benediction*.