O handmaids of the Merciful! Render ye thanks unto the Ancient Beauty that
ye have been raised up and gathered together in this mightiest of
centuries, this most illumined of ages. As befitting thanks for such a
bounty, stand ye staunch and strong in the Covenant and, following the
precepts of God and the holy Law, suckle your children from their infancy
with the milk of a universal education, and rear them so that from their
earliest days, within their inmost heart, their very nature, a way of life
will be firmly established that will conform to the divine Teachings in
all things.
For mothers are the first educators, the first mentors; and truly it is
the mothers who determine the happiness, the future greatness, the
courteous ways and learning and judgement, the understanding and the faith
of their little ones.