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                Book 1<\/a>    Book II<\/a>    Book III<\/a>    Book IV<\/a>    
\nBook V<\/a>    Book VI<\/a>    Book VII<\/a>    Book VIII<\/a>    
\nBook IX<\/a>    Book X<\/a>    Book XI<\/a>
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Book One. The Book of Beginnings<\/p>\n


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001   It was the hour before the Gods awake.
\n002   Across the path of the divine Event
\n003   The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone
\n004   In her unlit temple of eternity,
\n005   Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge.
\n006   Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable,
\n007   In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse
\n008   The abysm of the unbodied Infinite;
\n009   A fathomless zero occupied the world.<\/TD><\/TR>
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023   Athwart the vain enormous trance of Space,
024   Its formless stupor without mind or life,
025   A shadow spinning through a soulless Void,
026   Thrown back once more into unthinking dreams,
027   Earth wheeled abandoned in the hollow gulfs
028   Forgetful of her spirit and her fate.<\/TD><\/TR>
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030   Then something in the inscrutable darkness stirred;
031   A nameless movement, an unthought Idea
032   Insistent, dissatisfied, without an aim,
033   Something that wished but knew not how to be,
034   Teased the Inconscient to wake Ignorance.<\/TD><\/TR>
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048   An unshaped consciousness desired light
049   And a blank prescience yearned towards distant change.
050   As if a childlike finger laid on a cheek
051   Reminded of the endless need in things
052   The heedless Mother of the universe,
053   An infant longing clutched the sombre Vast.<\/TD><\/TR>
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058   Arrived from the other side of boundlessness
059   An eye of deity peered through the dumb deeps;
060   A scout in a reconnaissance from the sun,
061   It seemed amid a heavy cosmic rest,
062   The torpor of a sick and weary world,
063   To seek for a spirit sole and desolate
064   Too fallen to recollect forgotten bliss.<\/TD><\/TR>
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096   The darkness failed and slipped like a falling cloak
097   From the reclining body of a god.<\/TD><\/TR>
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102   A glamour from unreached transcendences
103   Iridescent with the glory of the Unseen,
104   A message from the unknown immortal Light
105   Ablaze upon creation’s quivering edge,
106   Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues
107   And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours.<\/TD><\/TR>
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130   Earth felt the Imperishable’s passage close:
131   The waking ear of Nature heard her steps
132   And wideness turned to her its limitless eye,
133   And, scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smile
134   Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds.<\/TD><\/TR>
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140   Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts the gulfs
141   On the dumb bosom of the ambiguous earth,
142   Here where one knows not even the step in front
143   And Truth has her throne on the shadowy back of doubt,
144   On this anguished and precarious field of toil
145   Outspread beneath some large indifferent gaze,
146   Impartial witness of our joy and bale,
147   Our prostrate soil bore the awakening ray.<\/TD><\/TR>
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186   And Savitri too awoke among these tribes
187   That hastened to join the brilliant Summoner’s chant
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205   A narrow movement on Time’s deep abysm,
206   Life’s fragile littleness denied the power,
207   The proud and conscious wideness and the bliss
208   She had brought with her into the human form,
209   The calm delight that weds one soul to all,
210   The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy.<\/TD><\/TR>
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247   Thus trapped in the gin of earthly destinies,
248   Awaiting her ordeal’s hour abode,
249   Outcast from her inborn felicity,
250   Accepting life’s obscure terrestrial robe,
251   Hiding herself even from those she loved,
252   The godhead greater by a human fate.<\/TD><\/TR>
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282   Against the evil at life’s afflicted roots,
283   Her own calamity its private sign,
284   Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword.<\/TD><\/TR>
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307   At the summons of her body’s voiceless call
308   Her strong far-winging spirit travelled back,
309   Back to the yoke of ignorance and fate,
310   Back to the labour and stress of mortal days,
311   Lighting a pathway through strange symbol dreams
312   Across the ebbing of the seas of sleep.<\/TD><\/TR>
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341   Immobile in herself, she gathered force.
342   This was the day when Satyavan must die.<\/TD><\/TR>
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025   An absolute supernatural darkness falls
\n026   On man sometimes when he draws near to God:
\n027   An hour arrives when fail all Nature’s means;
\n028   Forced out from the protecting Ignorance
\n029   And flung back on his naked primal need,
\n030   He at length must cast from him his surface soul
\n031   And be the ungarbed entity within:
\n032   That hour had fallen now on Savitri.<\/TD><\/TR>
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112   And the mighty wildness of the primitive earth
\n113   And the brooding multitude of patient trees
\n114   And the musing sapphire leisure of the sky
\n115   And the solemn weight of the slowly-passing months
\n116   Had left in her deep room for thought and God.
\n117   There was her drama’s radiant prologue lived.<\/TD><\/TR>
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124   Here with the suddenness divine advents have,
\n125   Repeating the marvel of the first descent,
\n126   Changing to rapture the dull earthly round,
\n127   Love came to her hiding the shadow, Death.
\n128   Well might he find in her his perfect shrine.<\/TD><\/TR>
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142   As in a mystic and dynamic dance
\n143   A priestess of immaculate ecstasies
\n144   Inspired and ruled from Truth’s revealing vault
\n145   Moves in some prophet cavern of the gods,
\n146   A heart of silence in the hands of joy
\n147   Inhabited with rich creative beats
\n148   A body like a parable of dawn
\n149   That seemed a niche for veiled divinity
\n150   Or golden temple-door to things beyond.<\/TD><\/TR>
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161   As might a soul fly like a hunted bird,
\n162   Escaping with tired wings from a world of storms,
\n163   And a quiet reach like a remembered breast,
\n164   In a haven of safety and splendid soft repose
\n165   One could drink life back in streams of honey-fire,
\n166   Recover the lost habit of happiness,
\n167   Feel her bright nature’s glorious ambience,
\n168   And preen joy in her warmth and colour’s rule.<\/TD><\/TR>
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246   A creature born to bend beneath the yoke,
\n247   A chattel and a plaything of Time’s lords,
\n248   Or one more pawn who comes destined to be pushed
\n249   One slow move forward on a measureless board
\n250   In the chess-play of the earth-soul with Doom,-
\n251   Such is the human figure drawn by Time.<\/TD><\/TR>
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252   A conscious frame was here, a self-born Force.<\/TD><\/TR>
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265   A grey tribunal of the Ignorance,
\n266   An Inquisition of the priests of Night
\n267   In judgment sit on the adventurer soul,
\n268   And the dual tables and the Karmic norm
\n269   Restrain the Titan in us and the God:
\n269   Pain with its lash, joy with its silver bribe
\n270   Guard the Wheel’s circling immobility.<\/TD><\/TR>
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274   Death stays the journeying discoverer, Life.<\/TD><\/TR>
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327   A magic leverage suddenly is caught
\n328   That moves the veiled Ineffable’s timeless will:
\n329   A prayer, a master act, a king idea
\n330   Can link man’s strength to a transcendent Force.<\/TD><\/TR>
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364   A flaming warrior from the eternal peaks
\n365   Empowered to force the door denied and closed
\n366   Smote from Death’s visage its dumb absolute
\n367   And burst the bounds of consciousness and Time.<\/TD><\/TR>
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001 A world’s desire compelled her mortal birth.
\n002   One in the front of the immemorial quest,
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\n007   A thinker and toiler in the ideal’s air,
\n008   Brought down to earth’s dumb need her radiant power.<\/TD><\/TR>
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220   Lifting the heavy curtain of the flesh
\n221   He stood upon a threshold serpent-watched,
\n222   And peered into gleaming endless corridors,
\n223   Silent and listening in the silent heart
\n224   For the coming of the new and the unknown.
\n225   He gazed across the empty stillnesses
\n226   And heard the footsteps of the undreamed Idea
\n227   In the far avenues of the Beyond.<\/TD><\/TR>
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359   There knowing herself by her own termless self,
\n360   Wisdom supernal, wordless, absolute
\n361   Sat uncompanioned in the eternal Calm,
\n362   All-seeing, motionless, sovereign and alone.<\/TD><\/TR>
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451   An old pull of subconscious cords renews;
\n452   It draws the unwilling spirit from the heights,
\n453   Or a dull gravitation drags us down
\n454   To the blind driven inertia of our base.
\n455   This too the supreme Diplomat can use,
\n456   He makes our fall a means for greater rise.<\/TD><\/TR>
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481   Always the power poured back like sudden rain,
\n482   Or slowly in his breast a presence grew;
\n483   It clambered back to some remembered height
\n484   Or soared above the peak from which it fell.
\n485   Each time he rose there was a larger poise,
\n486   A dwelling on a higher spirit plane;
\n487   The Light remained in him a longer space.<\/TD><\/TR>
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534   Already in him was seen that task of Power:
\n535   Life made its home on the high tops of self;
\n536   His soul, mind, heart became a single sun;
\n537   Only life’s lower reaches remained dim.<\/TD><\/TR>
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553   Thence stooped the eagles of Omniscience.
\n554   A dense veil was rent, a mighty whisper heard;
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\n558   The voices that an inner listening hears
\n559   Conveyed to him their prophet utterances,
\n560   And flame-wrapped outbursts of the immortal Word
\n561   And flashes of an occult revealing Light
\n562   Approached him from the unreachable Secrecy.<\/TD><\/TR>
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575   Oft inspiration with her lightning feet,
\n576   A sudden messenger from the all-seeing tops,
\n577   Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind
\n578   Bringing her rhythmic sense of hidden things.
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\n596   All-vision gathered into a single ray,
\n597   As when the eyes stare at an invisible point
\n598   Till through the intensity of one luminous spot
\n599   An apocalypse of a world of images
\n600   Enters into the kingdom of the seer.<\/TD><\/TR>
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615   Or she gathered the lost secrets dropped by Time
\n616   In the dust and crannies of his mounting route
\n617   Mid old forsaken dreams of hastening Mind
\n618   And buried remnants of forgotten space.<\/TD><\/TR>
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619   A traveller between summit and abyss,
\n620   She joined the distant ends, the viewless deeps<\/TD><\/TR>
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696   The inspiring goddess entered a mortal’s breast,
\n697   Made there her study of divining thought
\n698   And sanctuary of prophetic speech
\n699   And sat upon the tripod seat of mind:
\n700   All was made wide above, all lit below.
\n701   In darkness’ core she dug out wells of light,
\n702   On the undiscovered depths imposed a form,
\n703   Lent a vibrant cry to the unuttered vasts<\/TD><\/TR>
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809   A genius heightened in his body’s cells
\n810   That knew the meaning of his fate-hedged works
\n811   Akin to the march of unaccomplished Powers
\n812   Beyond life’s arc in spirit’s immensities.
\n813   Apart he lived in his mind’s solitude,
\n814   A demigod shaping the lives of men:
\n815   One soul’s ambition lifted up the race;
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\n819   He drew the energies that transmute an age.<\/TD><\/TR>
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001   On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights.
\n002   Our early approaches to the Infinite
\n003   Are sunrise splendours on a marvellous verge
\n004   While lingers yet unseen the glorious sun.
\n005   What now we see is a shadow of what must come.<\/TD><\/TR>
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033   A shapeless memory lingers in us still
\n034   And sometimes, when our sight is turned within,
\n035   Earth’s ignorant veil is lifted from our eyes;
\n036   There is a short miraculous escape.<\/TD><\/TR>
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040   Our souls can visit in great lonely hours
\n041   Still regions of imperishable Light,
\n042   All-seeing eagle-peaks of silent Power
\n043   And moon-flame oceans of swift fathomless Bliss
\n044   And calm immensities of spirit space.<\/TD><\/TR>
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111   A treasure of honey in the combs of God,
\n112   A Splendour burning in a tenebrous cloak,
\n113   It is our glory of the flame of God,
\n114   Our golden fountain of the world’s delight,
\n115   An immortality cowled in the cape of death,
\n116   The shape of our unborn divinity.<\/TD><\/TR>
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160   Along a path of aeons serpentine
\n161   In the coiled blackness of her nescient course
\n162   The Earth-Goddess toils across the sands of Time.<\/TD><\/TR>
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163   A Being is in her whom she hopes to know,
\n164   A Word speaks to her heart she cannot hear,
\n165   A Fate compels whose form she cannot see.
\n166   In her unconscious orbit through the Void
\n167   Out of her mindless depths she strives to rise,
\n168   A perilous life her gain, a struggling joy;<\/TD><\/TR>
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178   Ignorant and weary and invincible,
\n179   She seeks through the soul’s war and quivering pain
\n180   The pure perfection her marred nature needs,
\n181   A breath of Godhead on her stone and mire.<\/TD><\/TR>
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185   A light grows in her, she assumes a voice,
\n186   Her state she learns to read and the act she has done,
\n187   But the one needed truth eludes her grasp,
\n188   Herself and all of which she is the sign.<\/TD><\/TR>
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199   A vision meets her of supernal Powers
\n200   That draw her as if mighty kinsmen lost
\n201   Approaching with estranged great luminous gaze.
\n202   Then is she moved to all that she is not
\n203   And stretches arms to what was never hers.<\/TD><\/TR>
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204   Outstretching arms to the unconscious Void,
\n205   Passionate she prays to invisible forms of Gods
\n206   Soliciting from dumb Fate and toiling Time
\n207   What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope,
\n208   A Mind unvisited by illusion’s gleams,
\n209   A Will expressive of soul’s deity,
\n210   A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed,
\n211   A Joy that drags not sorrow as its shade.<\/TD><\/TR>
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332   In Matter shall be lit the spirit’s glow,
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\n338   A few shall see what none yet understands;
\n339   God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep;
\n340   For man shall not know the coming till its hour
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394   In the wide signless ether of the Self,
\n395   In the unchanging Silence white and nude,
\n396   Aloof, resplendent like gold dazzling suns
\n397   Veiled by the ray no mortal eye can bear,
\n398   The Spirit’s bare and absolute potencies
\n399   Burn in the solitude of the thoughts of God.<\/TD><\/TR>
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467   An outstretched Hand is felt upon our lives.
\n468   It is near us in unnumbered bodies and births;
\n469   In its unslackening grasp it keeps for us safe
\n470   The one inevitable supreme result
\n471   No will can take away and no doom change,
\n472   The crown of conscious Immortality,
\n473   The godhead promised to our struggling souls
\n474   When first man’s heart dared death and suffered life.<\/TD><\/TR>
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499   In the mystery of the deeps that God has built
\n500   For his abode below the Thinker’s sight,
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\n506   In this gold dome on a black dragon base,
\n507   The conscious Force that acts in Nature’s breast,
\n508   A dark-robed labourer in the cosmic scheme
\n509   Carrying clay images of unborn gods,
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\n513   Absolves from hour to hour her secret charge.<\/TD><\/TR>
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551   There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
\n552   In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
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627   His works, his thoughts have been devised by her,
\n628   His being is a mirror vast of hers:
\n629   Active, inspired by her he speaks and moves;
\n630   His deeds obey her heart’s unspoken demands:<\/TD><\/TR>
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736   The master of existence lurks in us
\n737   And plays at hide-and-seek with his own Force;
\n738   In Nature’s instrument loiters secret God.
\n739   The Immanent lives in man as in his house;
\n740   He has made the universe his pastime’s field,
\n741   A vast gymnasium of his works of might.<\/TD><\/TR>
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771   Then in a figure of divinity
\n772   The Maker shall recast us and impose
\n773   A plan of godhead on the mortal’s mould
\n774   Lifting our finite minds to his infinite,
\n775   Touching the moment with eternity.<\/TD><\/TR>
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776   This transfiguration is earth’s due to heaven:
\n777   A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:
\n778   His nature we must put on as he put ours;
\n779   We are sons of God and must be even as he:
\n780   His human portion, we must grow divine.
\n781   Our life is a paradox with God for key.<\/TD><\/TR>
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786   For the key is hid and by the Inconscient kept;
\n787   The secret God beneath the threshold dwells.<\/TD><\/TR>
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824   He is the explorer and the mariner
\n825   On a secret inner ocean without bourne:
\n826   He is the adventurer and cosmologist
\n827   Of a magic earth’s obscure geography.<\/TD><\/TR>
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873   Or passing through a gate of pillar-rocks,
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\n884   He leaves the last lands, crosses the ultimate seas,
\n885   He turns to eternal things his symbol quest;
\n886   Life changes for him its time-constructed scenes,
\n887   Its images veiling infinity.<\/TD><\/TR>
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888   Earth’s borders recede and the terrestrial air
\n889   Hangs round him no longer its translucent veil.
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\n892   The eyes of mortal body plunge their gaze
\n893   Into Eyes that look upon eternity.<\/TD><\/TR>
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894   A greater world Time’s traveller must explore.
\n895   At last he hears a chanting on the heights
\n896   And the far speaks and the unknown grows near:
\n897   He crosses the boundaries of the unseen
\n898   And passes over the edge of mortal sight
\n899   To a new vision of himself and things.<\/TD><\/TR>
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921   But none learns whither through the unknown he sails
\n922   Or what secret mission the great Mother gave.
\n923   In the hidden strength of her omnipotent Will,
\n924   Driven by her breath across life’s tossing deep,
\n925   Through the thunder’s roar and through the windless hush,
\n926   Through fog and mist where nothing more is seen,
\n927   He carries her sealed orders in his breast.<\/TD><\/TR>
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928   Late will he know, opening the mystic script,
\n929   Whether to a blank port in the Unseen
\n930   He goes or, armed with her fiat, to discover
\n931   A new mind and body in the city of God
\n931   And enshrine the Immortal in his glory’s house
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941   A power is on him from her occult force
\n942   That ties him to his own creation’s fate,
\n943   And never can the mighty Traveller rest
\n944   And never can the mystic voyage cease
\n945   Till the nescient dusk is lifted from man’s soul
\n946   And the morns of God have overtaken his night.<\/TD><\/TR>
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947   As long as Nature lasts, he too is there,
\n948   For this is sure that he and she are one;<\/TD><\/TR>
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957   This constant will she covered with her sport,
\n958   To evoke a Person in the impersonal Void,
\n959   With the Truth-Light strike earth’s massive roots of trance,
\n960   Wake a dumb self in the inconscient depths
\n961   And raise a lost Power from its python sleep
\n962   That the eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time
\n963   And the world manifest the unveiled Divine.<\/TD><\/TR>
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964   For this he left his white infinity
\n965   And laid on the spirit the burden of the flesh,
\n966   That Godhead’s seed might flower in mindless Space.<\/TD><\/TR>
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001   This knowledge first he had of time-born men.
\n002   Admitted through a curtain of bright mind
\n003   That hangs between our thoughts and absolute sight,
\n004   He found the occult cave, the mystic door
\n005   Near to the well of vision in the soul,
\n006   And entered where the Wings of Glory brood
\n007   In the silent space where all is for ever known.<\/TD><\/TR>
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020   There in a hidden chamber closed and mute
\n021   Are kept the record graphs of the cosmic scribe,
\n022   And there the tables of the sacred Law,
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\n027   The symbol powers of number and of form,
\n028   And the secret code of the history of the world
\n029   And Nature’s correspondence with the soul
\n030   Are written in the mystic heart of Life.<\/TD><\/TR>
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031   In the glow of the spirit’s room of memories
\n032   He could recover the luminous marginal notes
\n033   Dotting with light the crabbed ambiguous scroll,<\/TD><\/TR>
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071   He saw the unshaped thought in soulless forms,
\n072   Knew Matter pregnant with spiritual sense,
\n073   Mind dare the study of the Unknowable,
\n074   Life its gestation of the Golden Child.<\/TD><\/TR>
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079   A larger lustre lit the mighty page.
\n080   A purpose mingled with the whims of Time,
\n081   A meaning met the stumbling pace of Chance
\n082   And Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will;
\n083   A conscious wideness filled the old dumb Space.
\n084   In the Void he saw throned the Omniscience supreme.<\/TD><\/TR>
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085   A Will, a hope immense now seized his heart,
\n086   And to discern the superhuman’s form
\n087   He raised his eyes to unseen spiritual heights,
\n088   Aspiring to bring down a greater world.<\/TD><\/TR>
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129   A packed assemblage of crude tentative lives
\n130   Are pieced into a tessellated whole.<\/TD><\/TR>
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158   An animal with some instincts of a god,
\n159   His life a story too common to be told,
\n160   His deeds a number summing up to nought,
\n161   His consciousness a torch lit to be quenched,
\n162   His hope a star above a cradle and grave.<\/TD><\/TR>
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174   Impassive he lived immune from earthly hopes,
\n175   A figure in the ineffable Witness’ shrine
\n176   Pacing the vast cathedral of his thoughts
\n177   Under its arches dim with infinity
\n178   And heavenward brooding of invisible wings.<\/TD><\/TR>
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184   A universal light was in his eyes,
\n185   A golden influx flowed through heart and brain;
\n186   A Force came down into his mortal limbs,
\n187   A current from eternal seas of Bliss;
\n188   He felt the invasion and the nameless joy.<\/TD><\/TR>
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207   One-pointed to the immaculate Delight,
\n208   Questing for God as for a splendid prey,
\n209   He mounted burning like a cone of fire.<\/TD><\/TR>
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238   His spirit mingles with eternity’s heart
\n239   And bears the silence of the Infinite.<\/TD><\/TR>
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251   His nature shuddered in the Unknown’s grasp.
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\n256   In a whirlwind circuit of delight and force
\n257   Hurried into unimaginable depths,
\n258   Upborne into immeasurable heights,
\n259   It was torn out from its mortality
\n260   And underwent a new and bourneless change.<\/TD><\/TR>
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267   As when a timeless Eye annuls the hours
\n268   Abolishing the agent and the act,
\n269   So now his spirit shone out wide, blank, pure:
\n270   His wakened mind became an empty slate
\n271   On which the Universal and Sole could write.<\/TD><\/TR>
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290   The little ego’s ring could join no more;
\n291   In the enormous spaces of the self
\n292   The body now seemed only a wandering shell,
\n293   His mind the many-frescoed outer court
\n294   Of an imperishable Inhabitant:
\n295   His spirit breathed a superhuman air.<\/TD><\/TR>
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319   There was no small death-hunted creature more,
\n320   No fragile form of being to preserve
\n321   From an all-swallowing Immensity.<\/TD><\/TR>
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330   A secret Nature stripped of her defence,
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\n333   Lay bare to the burning splendour of his will.
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\n345   Her diagrams of geometric force,
\n346   Her potencies of marvel-fraught design
\n347   Courted employment by an earth-nursed might.<\/TD><\/TR>
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476   A border sovereign is the occult Force.
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\n494   A magic porch of entry glimmering
\n495   Quivered in a penumbra of screened Light,
\n496   A court of the mystical traffic of the worlds,
\n497   A balcony and miraculous fa\u2021ade.<\/TD><\/TR>
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524   Ascending and descending twixt life’s poles
\n525   The seried kingdoms of the graded Law
\n526   Plunged from the Everlasting into Time,
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\n530   Climbed back from Time into undying Self,
\n531   Up a golden ladder carrying the soul,
\n532   Tying with diamond threads the Spirit’s extremes.<\/TD><\/TR>
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619   Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of delight
\n620   Stretched out in an ecstasy of widenesses
\n621   Beyond our indigent corporeal range.
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