enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
15 To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
The reason why it is good to give thank-s is that it keeps the individual Mind fixed on the Unindividual Mind, as the Source of All Good --(verse 2). Two qualities of the Unindividual Mind:
1, Lovingness; 2, Stability or Law --Boaz and Jachin (verses 4 and 5). We learn the Unindividual Mind by its Working, and we perceive that its working proceeds from its thinking. It is those who do not try to consider (verse 6) these things and therefore do not understand them, who are brutal fools. The All-centralizing Truth (verse 8) is that the Lord, the Spirit, is at the Top of the Scala Grande. The exaltation of “God” (verse 10) becomes our
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