What brings you all your treasures?

It brings you all your treasures. 

It yields to you all your possessions. 

It restores to you all your faded hopes. 

It gives back every blessed and good promise of life, but it will not relieve you from responsibilities.

These are yours—

You inherit them. 

They belong to you—

As part of the infinite plan—

Sooner or later, in one world or another, in one state of being or another—

You must meet and vanquish them—

One by one.

Sublime is death! 

Beautiful is the gateway! 

Intense as is the rapture of the spirit when conscious of being and form and life—

There is nothing to allure you to the neglect of any duty or the fulfillment of any promise, for your poverty of spirit is revealed by death, as is your riches, and you must bear the test, which the divine scrutiny brings.