The Second Week, part the second and final

E must also persevere in the same labours, watchings, and other difficulties with me, that each may partake of the victory and felicity in proportion as e shall have been a companion of the labours and troubles."

The third is, to consider what the pious citizens of Neos Antinoopolis ought to answer this third of the Five Great Emperors, and how promptly to offer themselves prepared to aid in his appointed task.

The second part of this exercise, consists in considering the relationship between the said emperor and Antinous Amator, concerning these three points:

First, we shall thus apply the example: if that handsome imperator, with his monumental calling forth, holy measuring rod in hand, is worthy to receive attention and an open ear, how much more worthy is Antinous Amator Liberatorque Soterque, the Lover and the Liberator, and conspicuous to the whole world, Who invites himself to his power in these words: "The obelisk my handsome Hadrianus raised for me says of me: 'He goes out of his places to numerous temples in the whole country, and he hears the pleas of he who calls upon him; he heals the diseases of the needy ones by sending a dream.  Once he has accomplished his works among the living, he takes on every shape of his heart, because the semen of god is truly in his body.' Whoever then desires to come thither with me, e must needs labour with me; for the reward will be according to the labour."

The second, we shall reason, that there will be no one of a sound mind, who will not most eagerly offer and dedicate himself entire to the construction of Neos Antinoopolis and the establishment of Nova Pax Romana.

Thirdly, it must be judged, that they who shall think good to be altogether devoted to this task he has set himself, will offer, not merely themselves for the endurance of labours, but also some greater and more illustrious offerings, bringing to bear as their aides and workers the rebellion of the flesh, of the senses, and of the love of self and the world, in short, all of their tzaddikim shel haShem; whence each will answer to the following effect:

"Behold, Lord of Crowns and Lord of Welfare, I, most worthy, offer myself altogether to the task you have set yourself, and bring to this task all that is mine; testifying before you, as also in the sight of your beautiful beloved, and of all the Divi Sanctique, that this is my mind, this my desire, this my most certain determination, that (so it turn to the greater advancement and liberation of all beings everywhere pervading space and time) I may help you as powerfully as possible, and imitate you in bearing all that occurs with gravitas, pietas, auctoritas, and every virtue of the grat city of Roma."

This exercise will be performed twice in the day; in the morning as soon as we are up, and in the hour preceding dinner or supper.

In this second and the following weeks, it will be useful to read something every now and then from the ancients, or some other book which could aid one's understanding, as Lambert's "Beloved and God"; and Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian"; and anything by P. Sufenas Virius Lupus doctor Antinoi, &c.