To seat academies in the gates of the tents, to expound therein what is prohibited and what is permitted, therein to declare the impure impure, and therein to declare the pure pure, therein to declare the fit fit, and therein to declare the unfit unfit, therein to recognize the [sorts] of blood, and to teach the menstruants what they should do, to bind diadems upon your heads, and crowns of royalty upon the heads of your children, to force kings to prostrate themselves before you, to compel princes to fall down in your presence, to send forth your name beneath all the heavens, and your memory in the great ports, to illumine your faces as the brilliance of the day,and the space between your eyes as a blazing star. And if ye be worthy [to employ] this seal, and to make use of the fearful crown, neither vulgar nor ignorant shall be found in you, nor fool nor idiot shall be of your number.

Ye rejoice, and My servants are grieved, that this secret goeth forth from My treasury. By virtue of it the voice of your academies [soundeth] as [the voice of] fattened calves. Not with toil and not with weariness [do they learn], but with the name of this seal and with the mention of the fearful crown. He that marveleth at you, and he that grieveth grieveth because of you; many die in their sighing, and their souls go forth by reason of the repute of your glory,

Wealth and riches increase upon you; the great of the world cleave unto you; that family from which ye marry a daughter is known on all sides to be noble, he that is blessed in you is truly blessed, he that rejoiceth in you rejoiceth truly. Ye are called, ‘Those who turn many to righteousness’; they call ye, ‘Those who prove men innocent.’ The determinations of the months proceed from your [council], and the intercalculation of years from the subtlety of your wisdom.

By your hands are patriarchs anointed, and presidents of the sanhedrin take office according to your words; ye set up exilarchs, and the judges of cities are appointed by your authority. The order of society shall go forth from you, and none shall differ therefrom. A great war was waged with Me and My servants, as accuser appeared the greatest of the ministering angels. This is his plea:

‘Let not this secret go forth from Thy storehouse, and mystery of prudence from Thy treasuries; let not flesh and blood as our equals, suppose not the children of men our substitute. Let them grow weary in the study of the Law as much as they wish, and let those who come from their descendants, and after, fulfill it with labor and great anguish. This is thy glory, this is thy beauty. In the midst of their rejoicing they bethink themselves and pray to Thee, they cry out before Thee whole-heartedly, they beseech Thee with desirous soul: “May that which we have read remain in our possession, may that which we have studied remain in our possession, may our inward parts grasp all that which our ears have heard, may our hearts hold firmly the ways of the teaching which we have heard from the mouth of the teacher.” And let them continue to honour one another. But if Thou revealest this secret to Thy children, “the small will be as the great and the fool as the wise.”’”