Though thou lovest the Earthly Wisdom now, yet when thou shalt be
clothed upon with the Heavenly Wisdom, then wilt thou see that all the
wisdom of the World is folly; and wilt see also that the World hates not
so much thee, as thine enemy, which is this mortal life. And when thou
thyself shalt come to hate the will thereof, by means of a habitual
separation of thy mind from the World, then thou also wilt begin to love
that despising of the mortal life, and the reproach of the World for
Christ's sake. And so shalt thou be able to stand under every
temptation, and to hold out to the end by the means hereof in a course
of life above the World and above sense.
In this course thou wilt hate thyself, and thou wilt also love thyself,
I say, love thyself, and that even more than thou ever didst yet.