What is the handmaiden of God?

O science of earth—

In thee is the hope of the world—

When thou shalt become handmaiden of God.

Look up—

Value His works highly—

And thou shalt read clearly many things, which now puzzle thee sadly.

Thou art the Joseph, and religion, the Mary—

And ye twain shall show forth the Light of Life.

Blessed art thou.

—Sohma, son of Mol Lang, to Phylos, the Thibetan