1. “What shall I do with this lion* that is always roaring? What shall I do with this seven-headed serpent?**”
*(desire, greed)
**(many passions)

2. Adopt for yourself the practice of Fasting and you shall strangle this lion, as well as chastity and you shall slay this serpent!

3. This is the work of keeping a fast, for seven Angels are born from the fast of every one of the Remnant.

4. Those who have no power to fast daily, they too may fast on Sunday, and they also share in the deeds and the Fasting of the Saints by means of their faith and their alms.

5. Just as finally the Fire swallows this world with mighty wrath and relishes it, even so does this fire that is in the body swallow the outer fire that comes to it in fruit and food and enjoys it.

6. The fire that dwells in the body, its work is eating and drinking, but the Soul thirsts continually for the Word of Jehovih.

7. A man must not put out his hand and hurt this Living Cross recklessly and greedily, but when you have to eat it, do not eat it recklessly and revelling in gluttony and greed, but eat it only when in great hunger and drink it only when in great thirst, and from it derive nourishment for your bodies.
*(the Soul imprisoned in Matter)