That you alone and unguarded, commit a wrong unto others and therefore unto yourself

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,

So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder, And the robbed is not blameless in being robbed

The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, And the white-handed is not clean in the doing of the felon

And still more often the condemned is the burder bearer for the guiltless and unblamed

And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth

What judgement pronounce you upon him who though honest in the flesh, yet is a thief in the spirit?

And how prosecute you him, who in action is a deceiver and an oppressor,

Yet who also is aggrieved and outraged?

Only then, shall you know that the erect and the fallen are, but one man standing in the twilight

Between the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god-self

And that, the corner-stone of the temple is not higher than the lowest stone in its foundation.