Why should foolish, ignorant souls disturb what is both wise and learned? And what is this wise thing? The soul that understands the beginning and the end. The soul that truly knows the rational essence that flows through all existing things and through all time, staying always the same. It arranges and governs the universe in measured cycles.
Why should imprudent unlearned souls trouble that which is both learned, and prudent? And which is that that is so? she that understandeth the beginning and the end, and hath the true knowledge of that rational essence, that passeth through all things subsisting, and through all ages being ever the same, disposing and dispensing as it were this universe by certain periods of time.