From: The Divine Pymander - Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus

A book have I written —

Not mine, but the book of the world;

For her sake

And the sake of her God,

Have I written these things.

The Soul once lifted from sin,

Knowing goodness,

Shall fall nevermore;

She shall triumph in truth,

Having walked through the world,

And, dying, shall live.

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Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (2nd century BC) Greece

Translated by Frederic Rowland Marvin

Source: Flowers of song from many lands; being short poems and detached verses gathered from various languages and rendered into English, by Frederic Rowland Marvin, Pafraets Book Company, 1902

Note: Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus is a legendary figure who probably never existed but whose name has been used by many writers over the centuries - see the Wikipedia article