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Book Three. The Book of the Divine Mother
| Music | Book Three. Canto One:The Pursuit of the Unknowable |
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| 094 The universe removed its coloured veil, 095 And at the unimaginable end 096 Of the huge riddle of created things 097 Appeared the far-seen Godhead of the whole, 098 His feet firm-based on Life's stupendous wings, 099 Omnipotent, a lonely seer of Time, 100 Inward, inscrutable, with diamond gaze. |
| Music | Book Three. Canto Two:The Adoration of the Divine Mother |
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| 015 O soul, it is too early to rejoice! . . . 026 Only the everlasting No has neared 027 And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart: 028 But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes, 029 And immortality in the secret heart, 030 The voice that chants to the creator Fire, 031 The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word, |
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| 087 Abolishing the signless emptiness, 088 Breaking the vacancy and voiceless hush, 089 Piercing the limitless Unknowable, 090 Into the liberty of the motionless depths 091 A beautiful and felicitous lustre stole. . . . 093 Imaged itself in a surprising beam 094 And built a golden passage to his heart 095 Touching through him all longing sentient things. |
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| 138 A Heart was felt in the spaces wide and bare, 139 A burning Love from white spiritual founts 140 Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths; 141 Suffering was lost in her immortal smile. |
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| 151 At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate, 152 In their slow rounds the cycles turn to her call; 153 Alone her hands can change Time’s dragon base. 154 Hers is the mystery the Night conceals; 155 The spirit’s alchemist energy is hers; 156 She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. 157 The luminous heart of the Unknown is she, 158 A power of silence in the depths of God; 159 She is the Force, the inevitable Word, 160 The magnet of our difficult ascent, 161 The Sun from which we kindle all our suns, 162 The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts, 163 The joy that beckons from the impossible, 164 The Might of all that never yet came down. 165 All Nature dumbly calls to her alone 166 To heal with her feet the aching throb of life 167 And break the seals on the dim soul of man 168 And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things. 169 All here shall be one day her sweetness’ home, 170 All contraries prepare her harmony; 171 Towards her our knowledge climbs, our passion gropes; 172 In her miraculous rapture we shall dwell, 173 Her clasp will turn to ecstasy our pain. 174 Our self shall be one self with all through her. |
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| 175 In her confirmed because transformed in her, 176 Our life shall find in its fulfilled response 177 Above, the boundless hushed beatitudes, 178 Below, the wonder of the embrace divine. 179 This known as in a thunder-flash of God, 180 The rapture of things eternal filled his limbs; 181 Amazement fell upon his ravished sense; 182 His spirit was caught in her intolerant flame. 183 Once seen, his heart acknowledged only her. |
| Music | Book Three. Canto Three:The House of the Spirit and the New Creation |
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| 213 The great world-rhythms were heart-beats of one Soul, 214 To feel was a flame-discovery of God, 215 All mind was a single harp of many strings, 216 All life a song of many meeting lives; 217 For worlds were many, but the Self was one. 218 This knowledge now was made a cosmos' seed: 219 This seed was cased in the safety of the Light, 222 It needed not a sheath of Ignorance. |
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| 248 None was apart, none lived for himself alone, 249 Each lived for God in him and God in all, 250 Each soleness inexpressibly held the whole. |
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| 300 In these new worlds projected he became 301 A portion of the universal gaze, 302 A station of the all-inhabiting light, 303 A ripple on a single sea of peace. |
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| 407 Endlessly she unrolled her moving act, 408 A mystery drama of divine delight, . . . 413 An ardent hunt of soul looking for soul, 414 A seeking and a finding as of gods. |
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| 424 There substance was a resonant harp of self, 425 A net for the constant lightnings of the spirit, . . . 432 Its bodies woven by a divine sense 433 Prolonged the nearness of soul's clasp with soul; |
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| 528. All had not ceased in the unbounded hush. 529. His heart lay somewhere conscious and alone 530. Far down below him like a lamp in night; . . . 539. In the centre of his vast and fateful trance 540. Half-way between his free and fallen selves, 541. Interceding twixt God's day and the mortal's night, 542. Accepting worship as its single law, . . . 546. To her it turned for whom it willed to be. |
| Music | Book Three. Canto Four:The Vision and the Boon |
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| 007 An Influence had approached the mortal range, 008 A boundless Heart was near his longing heart, 009 A mystic Form enveloped his earthly shape. |
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| 028 Flame-pure, ethereal-tressed, a mighty Face 029 Appeared and lips moved by immortal words; |
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| 339 A giant dance of Shiva tore the past; |
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| 346. I saw the Omnipotent's flaming pioneers 347. Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life 348. Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth; 349. Forerunners of a divine multitude, 350. Out of the paths of the morning star they came 351. Into the little room of mortal life. |
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| 429 "O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. 430 One shall descend and break the iron Law, 431 Change Nature's doom by the lone spirit's power. |
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| 483 His soul drew back into the speed and noise 484 Of the vast business of created things. |