Muzaffer Canavarın Kovuluşu: Ruhun Ayıplarla Savaşı ve Göğün Reformu

Because here Jove (who represents each one of us), just as from being conceived he was born, and from a child became a young and robust man, and from such has become, and becomes ever more and more, old and frail: so from innocent and unskilled, he becomes harmful and skilled; he becomes wicked, and sometimes becomes good; from ignorant, he becomes wise; from a glutton, sober; from incontinent, chaste; from dissolute, grave; from iniquitous, just. To this he is sometimes inclined by his strength failing him, and at other times he is pushed and spurred by the fear of fatal justice, which is superior to the gods and threatens us. On the day, then, that the feast of the Gigantotheomachia is celebrated in heaven (a symbol of the continuous war, without any truce, that the soul wages against vices and disordered passions), this father wishes to carry out and define that which for some time before he had proposed and determined. Around midday or at the very point of it; that is, when enemy error least offends us, and friend truth most favors us, in the period of the clearest interval. At that time, the expulsion is given to the triumphant beast: that is, to the vices which predominate, and want to trample the [divine] part.