"Keep the faith and hold the line. Do not abandon the divine precepts, nor turn your back on the Gods and presume them to save you from your folly. Prayer and presumption are not enough for those who put forth no action of their own. Responsibility is a sacred law and the foundation of society. Let us never disregard it under the presumption that the Gods will save us from ourselves, that they will serve and reward us even as we reject them, that nature will uphold us even as we try to defy it. Have you not yet learned that whatever contradicts nature meets extinction? Wherein is there room for mercy and forgiveness? Nature gives its violators no quarter, and I, a follower of Nature, likewise give Her violators no quarter in the Temple."