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THE
NINTH
COURT
OF
KHANH THANH


'O Master, will these torments be increased
or lessened, on the final Judgement Day
or will the pain be just the same as now?'

'Return to your philosophy,
Which says the more perfect is the thing
the more it will feel pleasure or pain.

And thus although this miserable race
to true perfection never can attain
yet will they then expect it more than now.'