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but that your soul, if rich, in good works, will mount
to immortality and partake of the happiness you have
already witnessed.

" Take less care of your body, and more of your
soul; the pains and aches of the body are easily cured,
but who can minister to the diseases of the soul?
When you set out on a journey in the lower world
you provide yourself and take with you money,
clothes, provisions, and are prepared against all the
exigencies of the road, but what do you provide your-
self with for your last journey of the soul from the
lower to the upper world, and whose friendship have
you to assist you on the way ? Hear, 0 Arda Viraf!
and I will describe to you the provisions requisite for
the voyage to eternal life.

" In the first place, the friend who will assist you
is God; but to attain His friendship you must walk
in His ways, and place in Him the firmest reliance.
The provisions must be faith and hope, and the re-
membrance of your good works. Your body, 0 Arda
Viraf! may be likened unto a horse, and your soul to
its rider, and the provisions requisite for the support
of both are good actions. But, as with a feeble rider
the horse is ill managed, so with a feeble horse the
rider is but ill accommoclated, care ought to be taken
that both are kept in order; so, in a spiritual sense,
the soul and body must be kept in order by a succes-
sion of good actions. Even in the world the multi-