48. For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these statutes, and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death, has showed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life; and that, not a few only, but well near all that have been created.
49. And he answered me, and said, Hearken to me, and I will instruct you; and I will admonish you yet again:
50. for this cause the Most High has not made one world, but two.
51. For whereas you have said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly abound, hear the answer thereto.
52. If you has choice stones exceeding few, will you set for you over against them according to their number things of lead and clay?
53. And I said, Lord, how shall this be?
54. And he said to me, Not only this, but ask the earth, and she shall tell you; entreat her, and she shall declare to you.
55. For you shall say to her, You bring forth gold and silver and brass, and iron also and lead and clay:
56. but silver is more abundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, lead than iron, and clay than lead.