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\n\t\t\tThe Yoga of the King:<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tT<\/font>HIS<\/b> knowledge first he had of
\n\t\t\ttime-born men.<\/p>\n

Admitted through a curtain of bright mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThat hangs between our thoughts and absolute sight,<\/p>\n

He found the occult cave, the mystic door<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tNear to the well of vision in the soul,<\/p>\n

And entered where the Wings of Glory brood<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the silent space where all is for ever known.<\/p>\n

Indifferent to doubt and to belief,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAvid of the naked real’s single shock<\/p>\n

He shore the cord of mind that ties the earth-heart<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd cast away the yoke of Matter’s law.<\/p>\n

The body’s rules bound not the spirit’s powers:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhen life had stopped its beats, death broke not in;<\/p>\n

He dared to live when breath and thought were still.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThus could he step into that magic place<\/p>\n

Which few can even glimpse with hurried glance<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLifted for a moment from mind’s laboured works<\/p>\n

And the poverty of Nature’s earthly sight.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll that the Gods have learned is there self-known.<\/p>\n

There in a hidden chamber closed and mute<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAre kept the record graphs of the cosmic scribe,<\/p>\n

And there the tables of the sacred Law,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere is the Book of Being’s index page;<\/p>\n

The text and glossary of the Vedic truth<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAre there; the rhythms and metres of the stars<\/p>\n

Significant of the movements of our fate:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe symbol powers of number and of form,<\/p>\n

And the secret code of the history of the world<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd Nature’s correspondence with the soul<\/p>\n

Are written in the mystic heart of Life.<\/p>\n

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In the glow of the spirit’s room of memories<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe could recover the luminous marginal notes<\/p>\n

Dotting with light the crabbed ambiguous scroll,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRescue the preamble and the saving clause<\/p>\n

Of the dark Agreement by which all is ruled<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThat rises from material Nature’s sleep<\/p>\n

To clothe the Everlasting in new shapes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe could re-read now and interpret new<\/p>\n

Its strange symbol letters, scattered abstruse signs,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tResolve its oracle and its paradox,<\/p>\n

Its riddling phrases and its blindfold terms,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe deep oxymoron of its truth’s repliques,<\/p>\n

And recognise as a just necessity<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts hard conditions for the mighty work, \u2014<\/p>\n

Nature’s impossible Herculean toil<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOnly her warlock-wisecraft could enforce,<\/p>\n

Its law of the opposition of the gods,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts list of inseparable contraries.<\/p>\n

The dumb great Mother in her cosmic trance<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tExploiting for creation’s joy and pain<\/p>\n

Infinity’s sanction to the birth of form,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAccepts indomitably to execute<\/p>\n

The will to know in an inconscient world,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe will to live under a reign of death,<\/p>\n

The thirst for rapture in a heart of flesh,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd works out through the appearance of a soul<\/p>\n

By a miraculous birth in plasm and gas<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe mystery of God’s covenant with the Night.<\/p>\n

Once more was heard in the still cosmic Mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Eternal’s promise to his labouring Force<\/p>\n

Inducing the world-passion to begin,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe cry of birth into mortality<\/p>\n

And the opening verse of the tragedy of Time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOut of the depths the world’s buried secret rose;<\/p>\n

He read the original ukase kept back<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the locked archives of the spirit’s crypt,<\/p>\n

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And saw the signature and fiery seal<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOf Wisdom on the dim Power’s hooded work<\/p>\n

Who builds in Ignorance the steps of Light.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA sleeping deity opened deathless eyes:<\/p>\n

He saw the unshaped thought in soulless forms,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tKnew Matter pregnant with spiritual sense,<\/p>\n

Mind dare the study of the Unknowable,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLife its gestation of the Golden Child.<\/p>\n

In the light flooding thought’s blank vacancy,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInterpreting the universe by soul signs<\/p>\n

He read from within the text of the without:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe riddle grew plain and lost its catch obscure.<\/p>\n

A larger lustre lit the mighty page.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA purpose mingled with the whims of Time,<\/p>\n

A meaning met the stumbling pace of Chance<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will;<\/p>\n

A conscious wideness filled the old dumb Space.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the Void he saw throned the Omniscience supreme.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA Will, a hope immense now seized his heart,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd to discern the superhuman’s form<\/p>\n

He raised his eyes to unseen spiritual heights,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAspiring to bring down a greater world.<\/p>\n

The glory he had glimpsed must be his home.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA brighter heavenlier sun must soon illume<\/p>\n

This dusk room with its dark internal stair,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe infant soul in its small nursery school<\/p>\n

Mid objects meant for a lesson hardly learned<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOutgrow its early grammar of intellect<\/p>\n

And its imitation of Earth-Nature’s art,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts earthly dialect to God-language change,<\/p>\n

In living symbols study Reality<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd learn the logic of the Infinite.<\/p>\n

The Ideal must be Nature’s common truth,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe body illumined with the indwelling God,<\/p>\n

The heart and mind feel one with all that is,<\/p>\n

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A conscious soul live in a conscious world.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs through a mist a sovereign peak is seen,<\/p>\n

The greatness of the eternal Spirit appeared,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tExiled in a fragmented universe<\/p>\n

Amid half-semblances of diviner things.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThese now could serve no more his regal turn;<\/p>\n

The Immortal’s pride refused the doom to live<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA miser of the scanty bargain made<\/p>\n

Between our littleness and bounded hopes<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the compassionate Infinitudes.<\/p>\n

His height repelled the lowness of earth’s state:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA wideness discontented with its frame<\/p>\n

Resiled from poor assent to Nature’s terms,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe harsh contract spurned and the diminished lease.<\/p>\n

Only beginnings are accomplished here;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOur base’s Matter seems alone complete,<\/p>\n

An absolute machine without a soul.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr all seems a misfit of half ideas,<\/p>\n

Or we saddle with the vice of earthly form<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA hurried imperfect glimpse of heavenly things,<\/p>\n

Guesses and travesties of celestial types.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHere chaos sorts itself into a world,<\/p>\n

A brief formation drifting in the void:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tApings of knowledge, unfinished arcs of power,<\/p>\n

Flamings of beauty into earthly shapes,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLove’s broken reflexes of unity<\/p>\n

Swim, fragment-mirrorings of a floating sun.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA packed assemblage of crude tentative lives<\/p>\n

Are pieced into a tessellated whole.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere is no perfect answer to our hopes;<\/p>\n

There are blind voiceless doors that have no key;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThought climbs in vain and brings a borrowed light,<\/p>\n

Cheated by counterfeits sold to us in life’s mart,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOur hearts clutch at a forfeited heavenly bliss.<\/p>\n

There is provender for the mind’s satiety,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere are thrills of the flesh, but not the soul’s desire.<\/p>\n

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Here even the highest rapture Time can give<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIs a mimicry of ungrasped beatitudes,<\/p>\n

A mutilated statue of ecstasy,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA wounded happiness that cannot live,<\/p>\n

A brief felicity of mind or sense<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThrown by the World-Power to her body-slave,<\/p>\n

Or a simulacrum of enforced delight<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the seraglios of Ignorance.<\/p>\n

For all we have acquired soon loses worth,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn old disvalued credit in Time’s bank,<\/p>\n

Imperfection’s cheque drawn on the Inconscient.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn inconsequence dogs every effort made,<\/p>\n

And chaos waits on every cosmos formed:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn each success a seed of failure lurks.<\/p>\n

He saw the doubtfulness of all things here,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe incertitude of man’s proud confident thought,<\/p>\n

The transience of the achievements of his force.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA thinking being in an unthinking world,<\/p>\n

An island in the sea of the Unknown,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe is a smallness trying to be great,<\/p>\n

An animal with some instincts of a god,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis life a story too common to be told,<\/p>\n

His deeds a number summing up to nought,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis consciousness a torch lit to be quenched,<\/p>\n

His hope a star above a cradle and grave.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd yet a greater destiny may be his,<\/p>\n

For the eternal Spirit is his truth.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe can re-create himself and all around<\/p>\n

And fashion new the world in which he lives:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe, ignorant, is the Knower beyond Time,<\/p>\n

He is the Self above Nature, above Fate.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tHis soul retired from all that he had done.<\/p>\n

Hushed was the futile din of human toil,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tForsaken wheeled the circle of the days;<\/p>\n

In distance sank the crowded tramp of life.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Silence was his sole companion left.<\/p>\n

Impassive he lived immune from earthly hopes,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA figure in the ineffable Witness’ shrine<\/p>\n

Pacing the vast cathedral of his thoughts<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUnder its arches dim with infinity<\/p>\n

And heavenward brooding of invisible wings.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA call was on him from intangible heights;<\/p>\n

Indifferent to the little outpost Mind,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe dwelt in the wideness of the Eternal’s reign.<\/p>\n

His being now exceeded thinkable Space,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis boundless thought was neighbour to cosmic sight:<\/p>\n

A universal light was in his eyes,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA golden influx flowed through heart and brain;<\/p>\n

A Force came down into his mortal limbs,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA current from eternal seas of Bliss;<\/p>\n

He felt the invasion and the nameless joy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAware of his occult omnipotent Source,<\/p>\n

Allured by the omniscient Ecstasy,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA living centre of the Illimitable<\/p>\n

Widened to equate with the world’s circumference,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe turned to his immense spiritual fate.<\/p>\n

Abandoned on a canvas of torn air,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA picture lost in far and fading streaks,<\/p>\n

The earth-nature’s summits sank below his feet:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe climbed to meet the infinite more above.<\/p>\n

The Immobile’s ocean-silence saw him pass,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn arrow leaping through eternity<\/p>\n

Suddenly shot from the tense bow of Time,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA ray returning to its parent sun.<\/p>\n

Opponent of that glory of escape,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe black Inconscient swung its dragon tail<\/p>\n

Lashing a slumbrous Infinite by its force<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInto the deep obscurities of form:<\/p>\n

Death lay beneath him like a gate of sleep.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOne-pointed to the immaculate Delight,<\/p>\n

Questing for God as for a splendid prey,<\/p>\n

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He mounted burning like a cone of fire.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTo a few is given that godlike rare release.<\/p>\n

One among many thousands never touched,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEngrossed in the external world’s design,<\/p>\n

Is chosen by a secret witness Eye<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd driven by a pointing hand of Light<\/p>\n

Across his soul’s unmapped immensitudes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA pilgrim of the everlasting Truth,<\/p>\n

Our measures cannot hold his measureless mind;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe has turned from the voices of the narrow realm<\/p>\n

And left the little lane of human Time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the hushed precincts of a vaster plan<\/p>\n

He treads the vestibules of the Unseen,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr listens following a bodiless Guide<\/p>\n

To a lonely cry in boundless vacancy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll the deep cosmic murmur falling still,<\/p>\n

He lives in the hush before the world was born,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis soul left naked to the timeless One.<\/p>\n

Far from compulsion of created things<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThought and its shadowy idols disappear,<\/p>\n

The moulds of form and person are undone:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe ineffable Wideness knows him for its own.<\/p>\n

A lone forerunner of the Godward earth,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAmong the symbols of yet unshaped things<\/p>\n

Watched by closed eyes, mute faces of the Unborn,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe journeys to meet the Incommunicable,<\/p>\n

Hearing the echo of his single steps<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the eternal courts of Solitude.<\/p>\n

A nameless Marvel fills the motionless hours.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis spirit mingles with eternity’s heart<\/p>\n

And bears the silence of the Infinite.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn a divine retreat from mortal thought,<\/p>\n

In a prodigious gesture of soul-sight,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis being towered into pathless heights,<\/p>\n

Naked of its vesture of humanity.<\/p>\n

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As thus it rose, to meet him bare and pure<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA strong Descent leaped down. A Might, a Flame,<\/p>\n

A Beauty half-visible with deathless eyes,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA violent Ecstasy, a Sweetness dire,<\/p>\n

Enveloped him with its stupendous limbs<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd penetrated nerve and heart and brain<\/p>\n

That thrilled and fainted with the epiphany:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis nature shuddered in the Unknown’s grasp.<\/p>\n

In a moment shorter than death, longer than Time,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBy a Power more ruthless than Love, happier than Heaven,<\/p>\n

Taken sovereignly into eternal arms,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHaled and coerced by a stark absolute bliss,<\/p>\n

In a whirlwind circuit of delight and force<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHurried into unimaginable depths,<\/p>\n

Upborne into immeasurable heights,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt was torn out from its mortality<\/p>\n

And underwent a new and bourneless change.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn Omniscient knowing without sight or thought,<\/p>\n

An indecipherable Omnipotence,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA mystic Form that could contain the worlds,<\/p>\n

Yet make one human breast its passionate shrine,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tDrew him out of his seeking loneliness<\/p>\n

Into the magnitudes of God’s embrace.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs when a timeless Eye annuls the hours<\/p>\n

Abolishing the agent and the act,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSo now his spirit shone out wide, blank, pure:<\/p>\n

His wakened mind became an empty slate<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn which the Universal and Sole could write.<\/p>\n

All that represses our fallen consciousness<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWas taken from him like a forgotten load:<\/p>\n

A fire that seemed the body of a god<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tConsumed the limiting figures of the past<\/p>\n

And made large room for a new self to live.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEternity’s contact broke the moulds of sense.<\/p>\n

A greater Force than the earthly held his limbs,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHuge workings bared his undiscovered sheaths,<\/p>\n

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Strange energies wrought and screened tremendous hands<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUnwound the triple cord of mind and freed<\/p>\n

The heavenly wideness of a Godhead’s gaze.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs through a dress the wearer’s shape is seen,<\/p>\n

There reached through forms to the hidden absolute<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA cosmic feeling and transcendent sight.<\/p>\n

Increased and heightened were the instruments.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIllusion lost her aggrandising lens;<\/p>\n

As from her failing hand the measures fell,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAtomic looked the things that loomed so large.<\/p>\n

The little ego’s ring could join no more;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the enormous spaces of the self<\/p>\n

The body now seemed only a wandering shell,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis mind the many-frescoed outer court<\/p>\n

Of an imperishable Inhabitant:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis spirit breathed a superhuman air.<\/p>\n

The imprisoned deity rent its magic fence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs with a sound of thunder and of seas,<\/p>\n

Vast barriers crashed around the huge escape.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImmutably coeval with the world,<\/p>\n

Circle and end of every hope and toil<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInexorably drawn round thought and act,<\/p>\n

The fixed immovable peripheries<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEffaced themselves beneath the Incarnate’s tread.<\/p>\n

The dire velamen and the bottomless crypt<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBetween which life and thought for ever move,<\/p>\n

Forbidden still to cross the dim dread bounds,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe guardian darknesses mute and formidable,<\/p>\n

Empowered to circumscribe the wingless spirit<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the boundaries of Mind and Ignorance,<\/p>\n

Protecting no more a dual eternity<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tVanished rescinding their enormous role:<\/p>\n

Once figure of creation’s vain ellipse,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe expanding zero lost its giant curve.<\/p>\n

The old adamantine vetoes stood no more:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOverpowered were earth and Nature’s obsolete rule;<\/p>\n

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The python coils of the restricting Law<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCould not restrain the swift arisen God:<\/p>\n

Abolished were the scripts of destiny.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere was no small death-hunted creature more,<\/p>\n

No fragile form of being to preserve<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFrom an all-swallowing Immensity.<\/p>\n

The great hammer-beats of a pent-up world-heart<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBurst open the narrow dams that keep us safe<\/p>\n

Against the forces of the universe.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe soul and cosmos faced as equal powers.<\/p>\n

A boundless being in a measureless Time<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInvaded Nature with the infinite;<\/p>\n

He saw unpathed, unwalled, his titan scope.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAll was uncovered to his sealless eye.<\/p>\n

A secret Nature stripped of her defence,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOnce in a dreaded half-light formidable,<\/p>\n

Overtaken in her mighty privacy<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLay bare to the burning splendour of his will.<\/p>\n

In shadowy chambers lit by a strange sun<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd opening hardly to hid mystic keys<\/p>\n

Her perilous arcanes and hooded Powers<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tConfessed the advent of a mastering Mind<\/p>\n

And bore the compulsion of a time-born gaze.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIncalculable in their wizard modes,<\/p>\n

Immediate and invincible in the act,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer secret strengths native to greater worlds<\/p>\n

Lifted above our needy limited scope,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe occult privilege of demigods<\/p>\n

And the sure power-pattern of her cryptic signs,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer diagrams of geometric force,<\/p>\n

Her potencies of marvel-fraught design<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCourted employment by an earth-nursed might.<\/p>\n

A conscious Nature’s quick machinery<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tArmed with a latent splendour of miracle<\/p>\n

The prophet-passion of a seeing Mind,<\/p>\n

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And the lightning bareness of a free soul-force.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll once impossible deemed could now become<\/p>\n

A natural limb of possibility,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA new domain of normalcy supreme.<\/p>\n

An almighty occultist erects in Space<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis seeming outward world which tricks the sense;<\/p>\n

He weaves his hidden threads of consciousness,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe builds bodies for his shapeless energy;<\/p>\n

Out of the unformed and vacant Vast he has made<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis sorcery of solid images,<\/p>\n

His magic of formative number and design,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe fixed irrational links none can annul,<\/p>\n

This criss-cross tangle of invisible laws;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis infallible rules, his covered processes,<\/p>\n

Achieve unerringly an inexplicable<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCreation where our error carves dead frames<\/p>\n

Of knowledge for a living ignorance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn her mystery’s moods divorced from the Maker’s laws<\/p>\n

She too as sovereignly creates her field,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer will shaping the undetermined vasts,<\/p>\n

Making a finite of infinity;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe too can make an order of her caprice,<\/p>\n

As if her rash superb wagered to outvie<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe veiled Creator’s cosmic secrecies.<\/p>\n

The rapid footsteps of her fantasy,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAmid whose falls wonders like flowers rise,<\/p>\n

Are surer than reason, defter than device<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd swifter than Imagination’s wings.<\/p>\n

All she new-fashions by the thought and word,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCompels all substance by her wand of Mind.<\/p>\n

Mind is a mediator divinity:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts powers can undo all Nature’s work:<\/p>\n

Mind can suspend or change earth’s concrete law.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAffranchised from earth-habit’s drowsy seal<\/p>\n

The leaden grip of Matter it can break;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIndifferent to the angry stare of Death,<\/p>\n

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It can immortalise a moment’s work:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA simple fiat of its thinking force,<\/p>\n

The casual pressure of its slight assent<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCan liberate the Energy dumb and pent<\/p>\n

Within its chambers of mysterious trance:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt makes the body’s sleep a puissant arm,<\/p>\n

Holds still the breath, the beatings of the heart,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhile the unseen is found, the impossible done,<\/p>\n

Communicates without means the unspoken thought;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt moves events by its bare silent will,<\/p>\n

Acts at a distance without hands or feet.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis giant Ignorance, this dwarfish Life<\/p>\n

It can illumine with a prophet sight,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInvoke the bacchic rapture, the Fury’s goad,<\/p>\n

In our body arouse the demon or the god,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCall in the Omniscient and Omnipotent,<\/p>\n

Awake a forgotten Almightiness within.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn its own plane a shining emperor,<\/p>\n

Even in this rigid realm, Mind can be king:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe logic of its demigod Idea<\/p>\n

In the leap of a transitional moment brings<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSurprises of creation never achieved<\/p>\n

Even by Matter’s strange unconscious skill.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll’s miracle here and can by miracle change.<\/p>\n

This is that secret Nature’s edge of might.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn the margin of great immaterial planes,<\/p>\n

In kingdoms of an untrammelled glory of force,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhere Mind is master of the life and form<\/p>\n

And soul fulfils its thoughts by its own power,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe meditates upon mighty words and looks<\/p>\n

On the unseen links that join the parted spheres.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThence to the initiate who observes her laws<\/p>\n

She brings the light of her mysterious realms:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHere where he stands, his feet on a prostrate world,<\/p>\n

His mind no more cast into Matter’s mould,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOver their bounds in spurts of splendid strength<\/p>\n

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She carries their magician processes<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the formulas of their stupendous speech,<\/p>\n

Till heaven and hell become purveyors to earth<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the universe the slave of mortal will.<\/p>\n

A mediatrix with veiled and nameless gods<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhose alien will touches our human life,<\/p>\n

Imitating the World-Magician’s ways<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe invents for her self-bound free-will its grooves<\/p>\n

And feigns for magic’s freaks a binding cause.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll worlds she makes the partners of her deeds,<\/p>\n

Accomplices of her mighty violence,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer daring leaps into the impossible:<\/p>\n

From every source she has taken her cunning means,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe draws from the free-love marriage of the planes<\/p>\n

Elements for her creation’s tour-de-force:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA wonder-weft of knowledge incalculable,<\/p>\n

A compendium of divine invention’s feats<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe has combined to make the unreal true<\/p>\n

Or liberate suppressed reality:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn her unhedged Circean wonderland<\/p>\n

Pell-mell she shepherds her occult mightinesses;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer mnemonics of the craft of the Infinite,<\/p>\n

Jets of the screened subliminal’s caprice,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTags of the gramarye of Inconscience,<\/p>\n

Freedom of a sovereign Truth without a law,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThoughts that were born in the immortals’ world,<\/p>\n

Oracles that break out from behind the shrine,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWarnings from the daemonic inner voice<\/p>\n

And peeps and lightning-leaps of prophecy<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd intimations to the inner ear,<\/p>\n

Abrupt interventions stark and absolute<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the Superconscient’s unaccountable acts,<\/p>\n

Have woven her balanced web of miracles<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the weird technique of her tremendous art.<\/p>\n

This bizarre kingdom passed into his charge.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs one resisting more the more she loves,<\/p>\n

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Her great possessions and her power and lore<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe gave, compelled, with a reluctant joy;<\/p>\n

Herself she gave for rapture and for use.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbsolved from aberrations in deep ways,<\/p>\n

The ends she recovered for which she was made:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe turned against the evil she had helped<\/p>\n

Her engined wrath, her invisible means to slay;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer dangerous moods and arbitrary force<\/p>\n

She surrendered to the service of the soul<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the control of a spiritual will.<\/p>\n

A greater despot tamed her despotism.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAssailed, surprised in the fortress of her self,<\/p>\n

Conquered by her own unexpected king,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFulfilled and ransomed by her servitude,<\/p>\n

She yielded in a vanquished ecstasy,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer sealed hermetic wisdom forced from her,<\/p>\n

Fragments of the mystery of omnipotence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA border sovereign is the occult Force.<\/p>\n

A threshold guardian of the earth-scene’s Beyond,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe has canalised the outbreaks of the Gods<\/p>\n

And cut through vistas of intuitive sight<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA long road of shimmering discoveries.<\/p>\n

The worlds of a marvellous Unknown were near,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBehind her an ineffable Presence stood:<\/p>\n

Her reign received their mystic influences,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTheir lion-forces crouched beneath her feet;<\/p>\n

The future sleeps unknown behind their doors.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbysms infernal gaped round the soul’s steps<\/p>\n

And called to its mounting vision peaks divine:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn endless climb and adventure of the Idea<\/p>\n

There tirelessly tempted the explorer mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd countless voices visited the charmed ear;<\/p>\n

A million figures passed and were seen no more.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis was a forefront of God’s thousandfold house,<\/p>\n

Beginnings of the half-screened Invisible.<\/p>\n

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A magic porch of entry glimmering<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tQuivered in a penumbra of screened Light,<\/p>\n

A court of the mystical traffic of the worlds,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA balcony and miraculous facade.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAbove her lightened high immensities;<\/p>\n

All the unknown looked out from boundlessness:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt lodged upon an edge of hourless Time,<\/p>\n

Gazing out of some everlasting Now,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts shadows gleaming with the birth of gods,<\/p>\n

Its bodies signalling the Bodiless,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts foreheads glowing with the Oversoul,<\/p>\n

Its forms projected from the Unknowable,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts eyes dreaming of the Ineffable,<\/p>\n

Its faces staring into eternity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLife in him learned its huge subconscient rear;<\/p>\n

The little fronts unlocked to the unseen Vasts:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer gulfs stood nude, her far transcendences<\/p>\n

Flamed in transparencies of crowded light.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA giant order was discovered here<\/p>\n

Of which the tassel and extended fringe<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAre the scant stuff of our material lives.<\/p>\n

This overt universe whose figures hide<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe secrets merged in superconscient light,<\/p>\n

Wrote clear the letters of its glowing code:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA map of subtle signs surpassing thought<\/p>\n

Was hung upon a wall of inmost mind.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIllumining the world’s concrete images<\/p>\n

Into significant symbols by its gloss,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt offered to the intuitive exegete<\/p>\n

Its reflex of the eternal Mystery.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAscending and descending twixt life’s poles<\/p>\n

The seried kingdoms of the graded Law<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPlunged from the Everlasting into Time,<\/p>\n

Then glad of a glory of multitudinous mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd rich with life’s adventure and delight<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAnd packed with the beauty of Matter’s shapes and hues<\/p>\n

Climbed back from Time into undying Self,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUp a golden ladder carrying the soul,<\/p>\n

Tying with diamond threads the Spirit’s extremes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn this drop from consciousness to consciousness<\/p>\n

Each leaned on the occult Inconscient’s power,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe fountain of its needed Ignorance,<\/p>\n

Archmason of the limits by which it lives.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn this soar from consciousness to consciousness<\/p>\n

Each lifted tops to That from which it came,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOrigin of all that it had ever been<\/p>\n

And home of all that it could still become.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn organ scale of the Eternal’s acts,<\/p>\n

Mounting to their climax in an endless Calm,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPaces of the many-visaged Wonderful,<\/p>\n

Predestined stadia of the evolving Way,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMeasures of the stature of the growing soul,<\/p>\n

They interpreted existence to itself<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd, mediating twixt the heights and deeps,<\/p>\n

United the veiled married opposites<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd linked creation to the Ineffable.<\/p>\n

A last high world was seen where all worlds meet;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn its summit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep,<\/p>\n

The light began of the Trinity supreme.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll there discovered what it seeks for here.<\/p>\n

It freed the finite into boundlessness<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd rose into its own eternities.<\/p>\n

The Inconscient found its heart of consciousness,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe idea and feeling groping in Ignorance<\/p>\n

At last clutched passionately the body of Truth,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe music born in Matter’s silences<\/p>\n

Plucked nude out of the Ineffable’s fathomlessness<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe meaning it had held but could not voice;<\/p>\n

The perfect rhythm now only sometimes dreamed<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn answer brought to the torn earth’s hungry need<\/p>\n

Rending the night that had concealed the Unknown,<\/p>\n

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Giving to her her lost forgotten soul.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA grand solution closed the long impasse<\/p>\n

In which the heights of mortal effort end.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA reconciling Wisdom looked on life;<\/p>\n

It took the striving undertones of mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd took the confused refrain of human hopes<\/p>\n

And made of them a sweet and happy call;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt lifted from an underground of pain<\/p>\n

The inarticulate murmur of our lives<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd found for it a sense illimitable.<\/p>\n

A mighty oneness its perpetual theme,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt caught the soul’s faint scattered utterances,<\/p>\n

Read hardly twixt our lines of rigid thought<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr mid this drowse and coma on Matter’s breast<\/p>\n

Heard like disjointed mutterings in sleep;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt grouped the golden links that they had lost<\/p>\n

And showed to them their divine unity,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSaving from the error of divided self<\/p>\n

The deep spiritual cry in all that is.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll the great Words that toiled to express the One<\/p>\n

Were lifted into an absoluteness of light,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn ever-burning Revelation’s fire<\/p>\n

And the immortality of the eternal Voice.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere was no quarrel more of truth with truth;<\/p>\n

The endless chapter of their differences<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRetold in light by an omniscient Scribe<\/p>\n

Travelled through difference towards unity,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMind’s winding search lost every tinge of doubt<\/p>\n

Led to its end by an all-seeing speech<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThat garbed the initial and original thought<\/p>\n

With the finality of an ultimate phrase:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUnited were Time’s creative mood and tense<\/p>\n

To the style and syntax of Identity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA paean swelled from the lost musing deeps;<\/p>\n

An anthem pealed to the triune ecstasies,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA cry of the moments to the Immortal’s bliss.<\/p>\n

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As if the strophes of a cosmic ode,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA hierarchy of climbing harmonies<\/p>\n

Peopled with voices and with visages<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAspired in a crescendo of the Gods<\/p>\n

From Matter’s abysses to the Spirit’s peaks.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbove were the Immortal’s changeless seats,<\/p>\n

White chambers of dalliance with eternity<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the stupendous gates of the Alone.<\/p>\n

Across the unfolding of the seas of self<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAppeared the deathless countries of the One.<\/p>\n

A many-miracled Consciousness unrolled<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tVast aim and process and unfettered norms,<\/p>\n

A larger Nature’s great familiar roads.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAffranchised from the net of earthly sense<\/p>\n

Calm continents of potency were glimpsed;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHomelands of beauty shut to human eyes,<\/p>\n

Half-seen at first through wonder’s gleaming lids,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSurprised the vision with felicity;<\/p>\n

Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of delight<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tStretched out in an ecstasy of widenesses<\/p>\n

Beyond our indigent corporeal range.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere he could enter, there awhile abide.<\/p>\n

A voyager upon uncharted routes<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFronting the viewless danger of the Unknown,<\/p>\n

Adventuring across enormous realms,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe broke into another Space and Time.<\/p>\n

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