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This fragment reads like a hard, compressed note on belief, fear, and how conviction toughens as it comes down into lived experience.

The line `Believing in God is / the joyess port` makes belief a place of arrival before the fragment turns toward what happens when it comes down and gets tough.

A short handwritten continuation of the 'Religion' page that pivots from metaphysics to lived conviction. Belief is recast as motion - 'As thought, As Adventure, / No Matter of its form, / No Matter of its realm-' - the repeated 'No Matter' shrugging off both shape and domain. The fragment lands its claim plainly, 'Believing in God is / the joyess port', then immediately toughens it: faith is measured by 'how / it comes down, gets / tough'. The descent from abstraction into difficulty is the whole point. The scan was rotated 90 degrees for reading; lower marginal repeated words and a small pencil name-practice are separate notes and stay out of the transcript. Source spelling 'joyess' is preserved.