See, then, that the spirit is well looked after. Our thoughts and our words proceed from it. We derive our demeanor and expression and the very way we walk from it. If the spirit is sound and healthy, our style will be firm and forceful and virile, but if the spirit stumbles all the rest of our personality comes down in ruins with it.

“The queen unharmed, the bees all live at one. Once she is lost, the hive’s in anarchy.”

The spirit is our queen. So long as she is unharmed, the rest remains at its post, obedient and submissive. If she wavers for a moment, in the same moment the rest all falters.