ction. But Imagination and Self Love mightily
disquiet your mind, and makes you to call up all the Powers of
Darkness to come forth and help you to set the Crown upon the head
of Self, which is that Kingly Power you have oathed and vowed
against, but yet uphold it in your hands.... All this falling out
and quarrelling among mankind is about the Earth, and who shall,
and who shall not enjoy it, when indeed it is the portion of
everyone, and ought not to be striven for, nor bought, nor sold,
whereby some are hedged in and others are hedged out. Far better
not to have had a body than to be debarred the fruit of the Earth
to feed and clothe it. And if every one did but quietly enjoy the
Earth for food and raiment, there would be no wars, prisons, nor
gallows, and this action which men call theft would be no sin. For
Universal Love never made it a sin, but the Power of Covetousness
made it a sin, and made Laws to punish it, though he himself lives
in that sin in a higher manner than those he hangs and punishes....
Well, He that made the Earth for us as well as for you will set us
free, though you will not. When will the Veil of Darkness be drawn
off your faces? Will you not be wise, O ye Rulers?"

After further expatiating on the blessings inherent in Righteousness and
Universal Love, and on the inevitable evil consequences of Self Love or
Covetousness, he indicates the practical steps by which these evils
might be removed, as follows:

"If ever the Creation is to be restored, this is the way, which
lies in this two-fold power:

"First, Community of Mankind, which is comprised in the Unity of
the Spirit of Love, which is called Christ within you, or the Law
written in the Heart, leading Mankind unto all Truth, and to be of
one heart and one mind.

"The Second is Community of the Earth, for the quiet livelihood in
food and raiment, without using force or restraining one another.

"These Two Communities, or rather one in two branches, is that true
Levelling which Christ shall work at His more glorious appearance.
FOR JESUS CHRIST, THE SAVIOUR OF ALL MEN, IS THE GREATEST, FIRST
AND TRUEST LEVELLER THAT EVER WAS SPOKEN OF IN THE WORLD."

"Therefore you Rulers of England, be not afraid nor ashamed of
Levellers, hate them not; Christ comes to you riding upon these