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\n\t\t\tA<\/font> WORLD’S<\/b> desire compelled her mortal
\n\t\t\tbirth.<\/p>\n

One in the front of the immemorial quest,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tProtagonist of the mysterious play<\/p>\n

In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd limits his eternity by the hours<\/p>\n

And the blind Void struggles to live and see,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA thinker and toiler in the ideal’s air,<\/p>\n

Brought down to earth’s dumb need her radiant power.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis was a spirit that stooped from larger spheres<\/p>\n

Into our province of ephemeral sight,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA colonist from immortality.<\/p>\n

A pointing beam on earth’s uncertain roads,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis birth held up a symbol and a sign;<\/p>\n

His human self like a translucent cloak<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCovered the All-Wise who leads the unseeing world.<\/p>\n

Affiliated to cosmic Space and Time<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd paying here God’s debt to earth and man<\/p>\n

A greater sonship was his divine right.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAlthough consenting to mortal ignorance,<\/p>\n

His knowledge shared the Light ineffable.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA strength of the original Permanence<\/p>\n

Entangled in the moment and its flow,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe kept the vision of the Vasts behind:<\/p>\n

A power was in him from the Unknowable.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn archivist of the symbols of the Beyond,<\/p>\n

A treasurer of superhuman dreams,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe bore the stamp of mighty memories<\/p>\n

And shed their grandiose ray on human life.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis days were a long growth to the Supreme.<\/p>\n

A skyward being nourishing its roots<\/p>\n

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On sustenance from occult spiritual founts<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tClimbed through white rays to meet an unseen Sun.<\/p>\n

His soul lived as eternity’s delegate,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis mind was like a fire assailing heaven,<\/p>\n

His will a hunter in the trails of light.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn ocean impulse lifted every breath;<\/p>\n

Each action left the footprints of a god,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEach moment was a beat of puissant wings.<\/p>\n

The little plot of our mortality<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTouched by this tenant from the heights became<\/p>\n

A playground of the living Infinite.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis bodily appearance is not all;<\/p>\n

The form deceives, the person is a mask;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHid deep in man celestial powers can dwell.<\/p>\n

His fragile ship conveys through the sea of years<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn incognito of the Imperishable.<\/p>\n

A spirit that is a flame of God abides,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA fiery portion of the Wonderful,<\/p>\n

Artist of his own beauty and delight,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImmortal in our mortal poverty.<\/p>\n

This sculptor of the forms of the Infinite,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis screened unrecognised Inhabitant,<\/p>\n

Initiate of his own veiled mysteries,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHides in a small dumb seed his cosmic thought.<\/p>\n

In the mute strength of the occult Idea<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tDetermining predestined shape and act,<\/p>\n

Passenger from life to life, from scale to scale,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tChanging his imaged self from form to form,<\/p>\n

He regards the icon growing by his gaze<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd in the worm foresees the coming god.<\/p>\n

At last the traveller in the paths of Time<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tArrives on the frontiers of eternity.<\/p>\n

In the transient symbol of humanity draped,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe feels his substance of undying self<\/p>\n

And loses his kinship to mortality.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA beam of the Eternal smites his heart,<\/p>\n

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His thought stretches into infinitude;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll in him turns to spirit vastnesses.<\/p>\n

His soul breaks out to join the Oversoul,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis life is oceaned by that superlife.<\/p>\n

He has drunk from the breasts of the Mother of the worlds;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA topless Supernature fills his frame:<\/p>\n

She adopts his spirit’s everlasting ground<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs the security of her changing world<\/p>\n

And shapes the figure of her unborn mights.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImmortally she conceives herself in him,<\/p>\n

In the creature the unveiled Creatrix works:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer face is seen through his face, her eyes through his eyes;<\/p>\n

Her being is his through a vast identity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThen is revealed in man the overt Divine.<\/p>\n

A static Oneness and dynamic Power<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tDescend in him, the integral Godhead’s seals;<\/p>\n

His soul and body take that splendid stamp.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA long dim preparation is man’s life,<\/p>\n

A circle of toil and hope and war and peace<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTracked out by Life on Matter’s obscure ground.<\/p>\n

In his climb to a peak no feet have ever trod,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe seeks through a penumbra shot with flame<\/p>\n

A veiled reality half-known, ever missed,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA search for something or someone never found,<\/p>\n

Cult of an ideal never made real here,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn endless spiral of ascent and fall<\/p>\n

Until at last is reached the giant point<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThrough which his Glory shines for whom we were made<\/p>\n

And we break into the infinity of God.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAcross our nature’s border line we escape<\/p>\n

Into Supernature’s arc of living light.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis now was witnessed in that son of Force;<\/p>\n

In him that high transition laid its base.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOriginal and supernal Immanence<\/p>\n

Of which all Nature’s process is the art,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe cosmic Worker set his secret hand<\/p>\n

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To turn this frail mud-engine to heaven-use.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA Presence wrought behind the ambiguous screen:<\/p>\n

It beat his soil to bear a Titan’s weight,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRefining half-hewn blocks of natural strength<\/p>\n

It built his soul into a statued god.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Craftsman of the magic stuff of self<\/p>\n

Who labours at his high and difficult plan<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the wide workshop of the wonderful world,<\/p>\n

Modelled in inward Time his rhythmic parts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThen came the abrupt transcendent miracle:<\/p>\n

The masked immaculate Grandeur could outline,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAt travail in the occult womb of life,<\/p>\n

His dreamed magnificence of things to be.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA crown of the architecture of the worlds,<\/p>\n

A mystery of married Earth and Heaven<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnnexed divinity to the mortal scheme.<\/p>\n

A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFor him mind’s limiting firmament ceased above.<\/p>\n

In the griffin forefront of the Night and Day<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA gap was rent in the all-concealing vault;<\/p>\n

The conscious ends of being went rolling back:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe landmarks of the little person fell,<\/p>\n

The island ego joined its continent.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOverpassed was this world of rigid limiting forms:<\/p>\n

Life’s barriers opened into the Unknown.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbolished were conception’s covenants<\/p>\n

And, striking off subjection’s rigorous clause,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnnulled the soul’s treaty with Nature’s nescience.<\/p>\n

All the grey inhibitions were torn off<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd broken the intellect’s hard and lustrous lid;<\/p>\n

Truth unpartitioned found immense sky-room;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn empyrean vision saw and knew;<\/p>\n

The bounded mind became a boundless light,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe finite self mated with infinity.<\/p>\n

His march now soared into an eagle’s flight.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOut of apprenticeship to Ignorance<\/p>\n

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Wisdom upraised him to her master craft<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd made him an archmason of the soul,<\/p>\n

A builder of the Immortal’s secret house,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn aspirant to supernal Timelessness:<\/p>\n

Freedom and empire called to him from on high;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbove mind’s twilight and life’s star-led night<\/p>\n

There gleamed the dawn of a spiritual day.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAs so he grew into his larger self,<\/p>\n

Humanity framed his movements less and less;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA greater being saw a greater world.<\/p>\n

A fearless will for knowledge dared to erase<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe lines of safety Reason draws that bar<\/p>\n

Mind’s soar, soul’s dive into the Infinite.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEven his first steps broke our small earth-bounds<\/p>\n

And loitered in a vaster freer air.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn hands sustained by a transfiguring Might<\/p>\n

He caught up lightly like a giant’s bow<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLeft slumbering in a sealed and secret cave<\/p>\n

The powers that sleep unused in man within.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe made of miracle a normal act<\/p>\n

And turned to a common part of divine works,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMagnificently natural at this height,<\/p>\n

Efforts that would shatter the strength of mortal hearts,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPursued in a royalty of mighty ease<\/p>\n

Aims too sublime for Nature’s daily will:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe gifts of the spirit crowding came to him;<\/p>\n

They were his life’s pattern and his privilege.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA pure perception lent its lucent joy:<\/p>\n

Its intimate vision waited not to think;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt enveloped all Nature in a single glance,<\/p>\n

It looked into the very self of things;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tDeceived no more by form he saw the soul.<\/p>\n

In beings it knew what lurked to them unknown;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt seized the idea in mind, the wish in the heart;<\/p>\n

It plucked out from grey folds of secrecy<\/p>\n

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The motives which from their own sight men hide.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe felt the beating life in other men<\/p>\n

Invade him with their happiness and their grief;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTheir love, their anger, their unspoken hopes<\/p>\n

Entered in currents or in pouring waves<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInto the immobile ocean of his calm.<\/p>\n

He heard the inspired sound of his own thoughts<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRe-echoed in the vault of other minds;<\/p>\n

The world’s thought-streams travelled into his ken;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis inner self grew near to others’ selves<\/p>\n

And bore a kinship’s weight, a common tie,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tYet stood untouched, king of itself, alone.<\/p>\n

A magical accord quickened and attuned<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTo ethereal symphonies the old earthy strings;<\/p>\n

It raised the servitors of mind and life<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTo be happy partners in the soul’s response,<\/p>\n

Tissue and nerve were turned to sensitive chords,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRecords of lustre and ecstasy; it made<\/p>\n

The body’s means the spirit’s acolytes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA heavenlier function with a finer mode<\/p>\n

Lit with its grace man’s outward earthliness;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe soul’s experience of its deeper sheaths<\/p>\n

No more slept drugged by Matter’s dominance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the dead wall closing us from wider self,<\/p>\n

Into a secrecy of apparent sleep,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe mystic tract beyond our waking thoughts,<\/p>\n

A door parted, built in by Matter’s force,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tReleasing things unseized by earthly sense:<\/p>\n

A world unseen, unknown by outward mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAppeared in the silent spaces of the soul.<\/p>\n

He sat in secret chambers looking out<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInto the luminous countries of the unborn<\/p>\n

Where all things dreamed by the mind are seen and true<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd all that the life longs for is drawn close.<\/p>\n

He saw the Perfect in their starry homes<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWearing the glory of a deathless form,<\/p>\n

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Lain in the arms of the Eternal’s peace,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRapt in the heart-beats of God-ecstasy.<\/p>\n

He lived in the mystic space where thought is born<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd will is nursed by an ethereal Power<\/p>\n

And fed on the white milk of the Eternal’s strengths<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTill it grows into the likeness of a god.<\/p>\n

In the Witness’s occult rooms with mind-built walls<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn hidden interiors, lurking passages<\/p>\n

Opened the windows of the inner sight.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe owned the house of undivided Time.<\/p>\n

Lifting the heavy curtain of the flesh<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe stood upon a threshold serpent-watched,<\/p>\n

And peered into gleaming endless corridors,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSilent and listening in the silent heart<\/p>\n

For the coming of the new and the unknown.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe gazed across the empty stillnesses<\/p>\n

And heard the footsteps of the undreamed Idea<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the far avenues of the Beyond.<\/p>\n

He heard the secret Voice, the Word that knows,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd saw the secret face that is our own.<\/p>\n

The inner planes uncovered their crystal doors;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tStrange powers and influences touched his life.<\/p>\n

A vision came of higher realms than ours,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA consciousness of brighter fields and skies,<\/p>\n

Of beings less circumscribed than brief-lived men<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd subtler bodies than these passing frames,<\/p>\n

Objects too fine for our material grasp,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tActs vibrant with a superhuman light<\/p>\n

And movements pushed by a superconscient force,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd joys that never flowed through mortal limbs,<\/p>\n

And lovelier scenes than earth’s and happier lives.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA consciousness of beauty and of bliss,<\/p>\n

A knowledge which became what it perceived,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tReplaced the separated sense and heart<\/p>\n

And drew all Nature into its embrace.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe mind leaned out to meet the hidden worlds:<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAir glowed and teemed with marvellous shapes and hues,<\/p>\n

In the nostrils quivered celestial fragrances,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn the tongue lingered the honey of paradise.<\/p>\n

A channel of universal harmony,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHearing was a stream of magic audience,<\/p>\n

A bed for occult sounds earth cannot hear.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOut of a covert tract of slumber self<\/p>\n

The voice came of a truth submerged, unknown<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThat flows beneath the cosmic surfaces,<\/p>\n

Only mid an omniscient silence heard,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHeld by intuitive heart and secret sense.<\/p>\n

It caught the burden of secrecies sealed and dumb,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt voiced the unfulfilled demand of earth<\/p>\n

And the song of promise of unrealised heavens<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd all that hides in an omnipotent Sleep.<\/p>\n

In the unceasing drama carried by Time<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn its long listening flood that bears the world’s<\/p>\n

Insoluble doubt on a pilgrimage without goal,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA laughter of sleepless pleasure foamed and spumed<\/p>\n

And murmurings of desire that cannot die:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA cry came of the world’s delight to be,<\/p>\n

The grandeur and greatness of its will to live,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRecall of the soul’s adventure into space,<\/p>\n

A traveller through the magic centuries<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd being’s labour in Matter’s universe,<\/p>\n

Its search for the mystic meaning of its birth<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd joy of high spiritual response,<\/p>\n

Its throb of satisfaction and content<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn all the sweetness of the gifts of life,<\/p>\n

Its large breath and pulse and thrill of hope and fear,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts taste of pangs and tears and ecstasy,<\/p>\n

Its rapture’s poignant beat of sudden bliss,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe sob of its passion and unending pain.<\/p>\n

The murmur and whisper of the unheard sounds<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhich crowd around our hearts but find no window<\/p>\n

To enter, swelled into a canticle<\/p>\n

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Of all that suffers to be still unknown<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd all that labours vainly to be born<\/p>\n

And all the sweetness none will ever taste<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd all the beauty that will never be.<\/p>\n

Inaudible to our deaf mortal ears<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe wide world-rhythms wove their stupendous chant<\/p>\n

To which life strives to fit our rhyme-beats here,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMelting our limits in the illimitable,<\/p>\n

Tuning the finite to infinity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA low muttering rose from the subconscient caves,<\/p>\n

The stammer of the primal ignorance;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnswer to that inarticulate questioning,<\/p>\n

There stooped with lightning neck and thunder’s wings<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA radiant hymn to the Inexpressible<\/p>\n

And the anthem of the superconscient light.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll was revealed there none can here express;<\/p>\n

Vision and dream were fables spoken by truth<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr symbols more veridical than fact,<\/p>\n

Or were truths enforced by supernatural seals.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImmortal eyes approached and looked in his,<\/p>\n

And beings of many kingdoms neared and spoke:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe ever-living whom we name as dead<\/p>\n

Could leave their glory beyond death and birth<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTo utter the wisdom which exceeds all phrase:<\/p>\n

The kings of evil and the kings of good,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAppellants at the reason’s judgment seat,<\/p>\n

Proclaimed the gospel of their opposites,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd all believed themselves spokesmen of God:<\/p>\n

The gods of light and titans of the dark<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBattled for his soul as for a costly prize.<\/p>\n

In every hour loosed from the quiver of Time<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere rose a song of new discovery,<\/p>\n

A bow-twang’s hum of young experiment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEach day was a spiritual romance,<\/p>\n

As if he was born into a bright new world;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAdventure leaped an unexpected friend,<\/p>\n

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And danger brought a keen sweet tang of joy;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEach happening was a deep experience.<\/p>\n

There were high encounters, epic colloquies,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd counsels came couched in celestial speech,<\/p>\n

And honeyed pleadings breathed from occult lips<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTo help the heart to yield to rapture’s call,<\/p>\n

And sweet temptations stole from beauty’s realms<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd sudden ecstasies from a world of bliss.<\/p>\n

It was a region of wonder and delight.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll now his bright clairaudience could receive;<\/p>\n

A contact thrilled of mighty unknown things.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAwakened to new unearthly closenesses,<\/p>\n

The touch replied to subtle infinities,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd with a silver cry of opening gates<\/p>\n

Sight’s lightnings leaped into the invisible.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEver his consciousness and vision grew;<\/p>\n

They took an ampler sweep, a loftier flight;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe passed the border marked for Matter’s rule<\/p>\n

And passed the zone where thought replaces life.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOut of this world of signs suddenly he came<\/p>\n

Into a silent self where world was not<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd looked beyond into a nameless vast.<\/p>\n

These symbol figures lost their right to live,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll tokens dropped our sense can recognise;<\/p>\n

There the heart beat no more at body’s touch,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere the eyes gazed no more on beauty’s shape.<\/p>\n

In rare and lucent intervals of hush<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInto a signless region he could soar<\/p>\n

Packed with the deep contents of formlessness<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhere world was into a single being rapt<\/p>\n

And all was known by the light of identity<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd Spirit was its own self-evidence.<\/p>\n

The Supreme’s gaze looked out through human eyes<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd saw all things and creatures as itself<\/p>\n

And knew all thought and word as its own voice.<\/p>\n

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And love is a yearning of the One for the One,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd beauty is a sweet difference of the Same<\/p>\n

And oneness is the soul of multitude.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere all the truths unite in a single Truth,<\/p>\n

And all ideas rejoin Reality.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere knowing herself by her own termless self,<\/p>\n

Wisdom supernal, wordless, absolute<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSat uncompanioned in the eternal Calm,<\/p>\n

All-seeing, motionless, sovereign and alone.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere knowledge needs not words to embody Idea;<\/p>\n

Idea, seeking a house in boundlessness,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWeary of its homeless immortality,<\/p>\n

Asks not in thought’s carved brilliant cell to rest<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhose single window’s clipped outlook on things<\/p>\n

Sees only a little arc of God’s vast sky.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe boundless with the boundless there consorts;<\/p>\n

While there, one can be wider than the world;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhile there, one is one’s own infinity.<\/p>\n

His centre was no more in earthly mind;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA power of seeing silence filled his limbs:<\/p>\n

Caught by a voiceless white epiphany<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tInto a vision that surpasses forms,<\/p>\n

Into a living that surpasses life,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe neared the still consciousness sustaining all.<\/p>\n

The voice that only by speech can move the mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBecame a silent knowledge in the soul;<\/p>\n

The strength that only in action feels its truth<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWas lodged now in a mute omnipotent peace.<\/p>\n

A leisure in the labour of the worlds,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA pause in the joy and anguish of the search<\/p>\n

Restored the stress of Nature to God’s calm.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA vast unanimity ended life’s debate.<\/p>\n

The war of thoughts that fathers the universe,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe clash of forces struggling to prevail<\/p>\n

In the tremendous shock that lights a star<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs in the building of a grain of dust,<\/p>\n

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The grooves that turn their dumb ellipse in space<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPloughed by the seeking of the world’s desire,<\/p>\n

The long regurgitations of Time’s flood,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe torment edging the dire force of lust<\/p>\n

That wakes kinetic in earth’s dullard slime<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd carves a personality out of mud,<\/p>\n

The sorrow by which Nature’s hunger is fed,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe oestrus which creates with fire of pain,<\/p>\n

The fate that punishes virtue with defeat,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe tragedy that destroys long happiness,<\/p>\n

The weeping of Love, the quarrel of the Gods,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCeased in a truth which lives in its own light.<\/p>\n

His soul stood free, a witness and a king.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbsorbed no more in the moment-ridden flux<\/p>\n

Where mind incessantly drifts as on a raft<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHurried from phenomenon to phenomenon,<\/p>\n

He abode at rest in indivisible Time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs if a story long written but acted now,<\/p>\n

In his present he held his future and his past,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFelt in the seconds the uncounted years<\/p>\n

And saw the hours like dots upon a page.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn aspect of the unknown Reality<\/p>\n

Altered the meaning of the cosmic scene.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis huge material universe became<\/p>\n

A small result of a stupendous force:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOvertaking the moment the eternal Ray<\/p>\n

Illumined That which never yet was made.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThought lay down in a mighty voicelessness;<\/p>\n

The toiling Thinker widened and grew still,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWisdom transcendent touched his quivering heart:<\/p>\n

His soul could sail beyond thought’s luminous bar;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMind screened no more the shoreless infinite.<\/p>\n

Across a void retreating sky he glimpsed<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThrough a last glimmer and drift of vanishing stars<\/p>\n

The superconscient realms of motionless Peace<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhere judgment ceases and the word is mute<\/p>\n

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And the Unconceived lies pathless and alone.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere came not form or any mounting voice;<\/p>\n

There only were Silence and the Absolute.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOut of that stillness mind new-born arose<\/p>\n

And woke to truths once inexpressible,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd forms appeared, dumbly significant,<\/p>\n

A seeing thought, a self-revealing voice.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe knew the source from which his spirit came:<\/p>\n

Movement was married to the immobile Vast;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe plunged his roots into the Infinite,<\/p>\n

He based his life upon eternity.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOnly awhile at first these heavenlier states,<\/p>\n

These large wide-poised upliftings could endure.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe high and luminous tension breaks too soon,<\/p>\n

The body’s stone stillness and the life’s hushed trance,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe breathless might and calm of silent mind;<\/p>\n

Or slowly they fail as sets a golden day.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe restless nether members tire of peace;<\/p>\n

A nostalgia of old little works and joys,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA need to call back small familiar selves,<\/p>\n

To tread the accustomed and inferior way,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe need to rest in a natural pose of fall,<\/p>\n

As a child who learns to walk can walk not long,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tReplace the titan will for ever to climb,<\/p>\n

On the heart’s altar dim the sacred fire.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAn old pull of subconscious cords renews;<\/p>\n

It draws the unwilling spirit from the heights,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr a dull gravitation drags us down<\/p>\n

To the blind driven inertia of our base.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis too the supreme Diplomat can use,<\/p>\n

He makes our fall a means for greater rise.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFor into ignorant Nature’s gusty field,<\/p>\n

Into the half-ordered chaos of mortal life<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe formless Power, the Self of eternal light<\/p>\n

Follow in the shadow of the spirit’s descent;<\/p>\n

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The twin duality for ever one<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tChooses its home mid the tumults of the sense.<\/p>\n

He comes unseen into our darker parts<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd, curtained by the darkness, does his work,<\/p>\n

A subtle and all-knowing guest and guide,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTill they too feel the need and will to change.<\/p>\n

All here must learn to obey a higher law,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOur body’s cells must hold the Immortal’s flame.<\/p>\n

Else would the spirit reach alone its source<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLeaving a half-saved world to its dubious fate.<\/p>\n

Nature would ever labour unredeemed;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOur earth would ever spin unhelped in Space,<\/p>\n

And this immense creation’s purpose fail<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTill at last the frustrate universe sank undone.<\/p>\n

Even his godlike strength to rise must fall:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis greater consciousness withdrew behind;<\/p>\n

Dim and eclipsed, his human outside strove<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTo feel again the old sublimities,<\/p>\n

Bring the high saving touch, the ethereal flame,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCall back to its dire need the divine Force.<\/p>\n

Always the power poured back like sudden rain,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr slowly in his breast a presence grew;<\/p>\n

It clambered back to some remembered height<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr soared above the peak from which it fell.<\/p>\n

Each time he rose there was a larger poise,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA dwelling on a higher spirit plane;<\/p>\n

The Light remained in him a longer space.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn this oscillation between earth and heaven,<\/p>\n

In this ineffable communion’s climb<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere grew in him as grows a waxing moon<\/p>\n

The glory of the integer of his soul.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA union of the Real with the unique,<\/p>\n

A gaze of the Alone from every face,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe presence of the Eternal in the hours<\/p>\n

Widening the mortal mind’s half-look on things,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBridging the gap between man’s force and Fate<\/p>\n

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Made whole the fragment-being we are here.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAt last was won a firm spiritual poise,<\/p>\n

A constant lodging in the Eternal’s realm,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA safety in the Silence and the Ray,<\/p>\n

A settlement in the Immutable.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis heights of being lived in the still Self;<\/p>\n

His mind could rest on a supernal ground<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd look down on the magic and the play<\/p>\n

Where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the Everlasting puts on Time’s disguise.<\/p>\n

To the still heights and to the troubled depths<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis equal spirit gave its vast assent:<\/p>\n

A poised serenity of tranquil strength,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA wide unshaken look on Time’s unrest<\/p>\n

Faced all experience with unaltered peace.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIndifferent to the sorrow and delight,<\/p>\n

Untempted by the marvel and the call,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImmobile it beheld the flux of things,<\/p>\n

Calm and apart supported all that is:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis spirit’s stillness helped the toiling world.<\/p>\n

Inspired by silence and the closed eyes’ sight<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis force could work with a new luminous art<\/p>\n

On the crude material from which all is made<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the refusal of Inertia’s mass<\/p>\n

And the grey front of the world’s Ignorance<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd nescient Matter and the huge error of life.<\/p>\n

As a sculptor chisels a deity out of stone<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe slowly chipped off the dark envelope,<\/p>\n

Line of defence of Nature’s ignorance,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe illusion and mystery of the Inconscient<\/p>\n

In whose black pall the Eternal wraps his head<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThat he may act unknown in cosmic Time.<\/p>\n

A splendour of self-creation from the peaks,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA transfiguration in the mystic depths,<\/p>\n

A happier cosmic working could begin<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd fashion the world-shape in him anew,<\/p>\n

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God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAlready in him was seen that task of Power:<\/p>\n

Life made its home on the high tops of self;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis soul, mind, heart became a single sun;<\/p>\n

Only life’s lower reaches remained dim.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBut there too, in the uncertain shadow of life,<\/p>\n

There was a labour and a fiery breath;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe ambiguous cowled celestial puissance worked<\/p>\n

Watched by the inner Witness’s moveless peace.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEven on the struggling Nature left below<\/p>\n

Strong periods of illumination came:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLightnings of glory after glory burned,<\/p>\n

Experience was a tale of blaze and fire,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAir rippled round the argosies of the Gods,<\/p>\n

Strange riches sailed to him from the Unseen;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSplendours of insight filled the blank of thought,<\/p>\n

Knowledge spoke to the inconscient stillnesses,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRivers poured down of bliss and luminous force,<\/p>\n

Visits of beauty, storm-sweeps of delight<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRained from the all-powerful Mystery above.<\/p>\n

Thence stooped the eagles of Omniscience.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA dense veil was rent, a mighty whisper heard;<\/p>\n

Repeated in the privacy of his soul,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA wisdom-cry from rapt transcendences<\/p>\n

Sang on the mountains of an unseen world;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe voices that an inner listening hears<\/p>\n

Conveyed to him their prophet utterances,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd flame-wrapped outbursts of the immortal Word<\/p>\n

And flashes of an occult revealing Light<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tApproached him from the unreachable Secrecy.<\/p>\n

An inspired Knowledge sat enthroned within<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhose seconds illumined more than reason’s years:<\/p>\n

An ictus of revealing lustre fell<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs if a pointing accent upon Truth,<\/p>\n

And like a sky-flare showing all the ground<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA swift intuitive discernment shone.<\/p>\n

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One glance could separate the true and false,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr raise its rapid torch-fire in the dark<\/p>\n

To check the claimants crowding through mind’s gates<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCovered by the forged signatures of the gods,<\/p>\n

Detect the magic bride in her disguise<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr scan the apparent face of thought and life.<\/p>\n

Oft inspiration with her lightning feet,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA sudden messenger from the all-seeing tops,<\/p>\n

Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBringing her rhythmic sense of hidden things.<\/p>\n

A music spoke transcending mortal speech.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs if from a golden phial of the All-Bliss,<\/p>\n

A joy of light, a joy of sudden sight,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA rapture of the thrilled undying Word<\/p>\n

Poured into his heart as into an empty cup,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA repetition of God’s first delight<\/p>\n

Creating in a young and virgin Time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn a brief moment caught, a little space,<\/p>\n

All-Knowledge packed into great wordless thoughts<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLodged in the expectant stillness of his depths<\/p>\n

A crystal of the ultimate Absolute,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA portion of the inexpressible Truth<\/p>\n

Revealed by silence to the silent soul.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe intense creatrix in his stillness wrought;<\/p>\n

Her power fallen speechless grew more intimate;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe looked upon the seen and the unforeseen,<\/p>\n

Unguessed domains she made her native field.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll-vision gathered into a single ray,<\/p>\n

As when the eyes stare at an invisible point<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTill through the intensity of one luminous spot<\/p>\n

An apocalypse of a world of images<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEnters into the kingdom of the seer.<\/p>\n

A great nude arm of splendour suddenly rose;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt rent the gauze opaque of Nescience:<\/p>\n

Her lifted finger’s keen unthinkable tip<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tBared with a stab of flame the closed Beyond.<\/p>\n

An eye awake in voiceless heights of trance,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA mind plucking at the unimaginable,<\/p>\n

Overleaping with a sole and perilous bound<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe high black wall hiding superconscience,<\/p>\n

She broke in with inspired speech for scythe<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd plundered the Unknowable’s vast estate.<\/p>\n

A gleaner of infinitesimal grains of Truth,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA sheaf-binder of infinite experience,<\/p>\n

She pierced the guarded mysteries of World-Force<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd her magic methods wrapped in a thousand veils;<\/p>\n

Or she gathered the lost secrets dropped by Time<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the dust and crannies of his mounting route<\/p>\n

Mid old forsaken dreams of hastening Mind<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd buried remnants of forgotten space.<\/p>\n

A traveller between summit and abyss,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe joined the distant ends, the viewless deeps,<\/p>\n

Or streaked along the roads of Heaven and Hell<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPursuing all knowledge like a questing hound.<\/p>\n

A reporter and scribe of hidden wisdom talk,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer shining minutes of celestial speech,<\/p>\n

Passed through the masked office of the occult mind,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTransmitting gave to prophet and to seer<\/p>\n

The inspired body of the mystic Truth.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA recorder of the inquiry of the gods,<\/p>\n

Spokesman of the silent seeings of the Supreme,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShe brought immortal words to mortal men.<\/p>\n

Above the reason’s brilliant slender curve,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tReleased like radiant air dimming a moon,<\/p>\n

Broad spaces of a vision without line<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOr limit swam into his spirit’s ken.<\/p>\n

Oceans of being met his voyaging soul<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCalling to infinite discovery;<\/p>\n

Timeless domains of joy and absolute power<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tStretched out surrounded by the eternal hush;<\/p>\n

The ways that lead to endless happiness<\/p>\n

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Ran like dream-smiles through meditating vasts:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tDisclosed stood up in a gold moment’s blaze<\/p>\n

White sun-steppes in the pathless Infinite.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAlong a naked curve in bourneless Self<\/p>\n

The points that run through the closed heart of things<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tShadowed the indeterminable line<\/p>\n

That carries the Everlasting through the years.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe magician order of the cosmic Mind<\/p>\n

Coercing the freedom of infinity<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWith the stark array of Nature’s symbol facts<\/p>\n

And life’s incessant signals of event,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTransmuted chance recurrences into laws,<\/p>\n

A chaos of signs into a universe.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOut of the rich wonders and the intricate whorls<\/p>\n

Of the spirit’s dance with Matter as its mask<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe balance of the world’s design grew clear,<\/p>\n

Its symmetry of self-arranged effects<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tManaged in the deep perspectives of the soul,<\/p>\n

And the realism of its illusive art,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIts logic of infinite intelligence,<\/p>\n

Its magic of a changing eternity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA glimpse was caught of things for ever unknown:<\/p>\n

The letters stood out of the unmoving Word:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the immutable nameless Origin<\/p>\n

Was seen emerging as from fathomless seas<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe trail of the Ideas that made the world,<\/p>\n

And, sown in the black earth of Nature’s trance,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe seed of the Spirit’s blind and huge desire<\/p>\n

From which the tree of cosmos was conceived<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd spread its magic arms through a dream of space.<\/p>\n

Immense realities took on a shape:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThere looked out from the shadow of the Unknown<\/p>\n

The bodiless Namelessness that saw God born<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd tries to gain from the mortal’s mind and soul<\/p>\n

A deathless body and a divine name.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe immobile lips, the great surreal wings,<\/p>\n

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The visage masked by superconscient Sleep,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe eyes with their closed lids that see all things,<\/p>\n

Appeared of the Architect who builds in trance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe original Desire born in the Void<\/p>\n

Peered out; he saw the hope that never sleeps,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe feet that run behind a fleeting fate,<\/p>\n

The ineffable meaning of the endless dream.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHardly for a moment glimpsed viewless to Mind,<\/p>\n

As if a torch held by a power of God,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe radiant world of the everlasting Truth<\/p>\n

Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbove the golden Overmind’s shimmering ridge.<\/p>\n

Even were caught as through a cunning veil<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe smile of love that sanctions the long game,<\/p>\n

The calm indulgence and maternal breasts<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOf Wisdom suckling the child-laughter of Chance,<\/p>\n

Silence, the nurse of the Almighty’s power,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe omniscient hush, womb of the immortal Word,<\/p>\n

And of the Timeless the still brooding face,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the creative eye of Eternity.<\/p>\n

The inspiring goddess entered a mortal’s breast,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMade there her study of divining thought<\/p>\n

And sanctuary of prophetic speech<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd sat upon the tripod seat of mind:<\/p>\n

All was made wide above, all lit below.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn darkness’ core she dug out wells of light,<\/p>\n

On the undiscovered depths imposed a form,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLent a vibrant cry to the unuttered vasts,<\/p>\n

And through great shoreless, voiceless, starless breadths<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBore earthward fragments of revealing thought<\/p>\n

Hewn from the silence of the Ineffable.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA Voice in the heart uttered the unspoken Name,<\/p>\n

A dream of seeking Thought wandering through Space<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEntered the invisible and forbidden house:<\/p>\n

The treasure was found of a supernal Day.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the deep subconscient glowed her jewel-lamp;<\/p>\n

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Lifted, it showed the riches of the Cave<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhere, by the miser traffickers of sense<\/p>\n

Unused, guarded beneath Night’s dragon paws,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn folds of velvet darkness draped they sleep<\/p>\n

Whose priceless value could have saved the world.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA darkness carrying morning in its breast<\/p>\n

Looked for the eternal wide returning gleam,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWaiting the advent of a larger ray<\/p>\n

And rescue of the lost herds of the Sun.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn a splendid extravagance of the waste of God<\/p>\n

Dropped carelessly in creation’s spendthrift work,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLeft in the chantiers of the bottomless world<\/p>\n

And stolen by the robbers of the Deep,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe golden shekels of the Eternal lie,<\/p>\n

Hoarded from touch and view and thought’s desire,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLocked in blind antres of the ignorant flood,<\/p>\n

Lest men should find them and be even as Gods.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA vision lightened on the viewless heights,<\/p>\n

A wisdom illumined from the voiceless depths:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA deeper interpretation greatened Truth,<\/p>\n

A grand reversal of the Night and Day;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll the world’s values changed heightening life’s aim;<\/p>\n

A wiser word, a larger thought came in<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThan what the slow labour of human mind can bring,<\/p>\n

A secret sense awoke that could perceive<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA Presence and a Greatness everywhere.<\/p>\n

The universe was not now this senseless whirl<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBorne round inert on an immense machine;<\/p>\n

It cast away its grandiose lifeless front,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA mechanism no more or work of Chance,<\/p>\n

But a living movement of the body of God.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA spirit hid in forces and in forms<\/p>\n

Was the spectator of the mobile scene:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe beauty and the ceaseless miracle<\/p>\n

Let in a glow of the Unmanifest:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe formless Everlasting moved in it<\/p>\n

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Seeking its own perfect form in souls and things.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLife kept no more a dull and meaningless shape.<\/p>\n

In the struggle and upheaval of the world<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe saw the labour of a godhead’s birth.<\/p>\n

A secret knowledge masked as Ignorance;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFate covered with an unseen necessity<\/p>\n

The game of chance of an omnipotent Will.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA glory and a rapture and a charm,<\/p>\n

The All-Blissful sat unknown within the heart;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEarth’s pains were the ransom of its prisoned delight.<\/p>\n

A glad communion tinged the passing hours;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe days were travellers on a destined road,<\/p>\n

The nights companions of his musing spirit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA heavenly impetus quickened all his breast;<\/p>\n

The trudge of Time changed to a splendid march;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe divine Dwarf towered to unconquered worlds,<\/p>\n

Earth grew too narrow for his victory.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOnce only registering the heavy tread<\/p>\n

Of a blind Power on human littleness,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLife now became a sure approach to God,<\/p>\n

Existence a divine experiment<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd cosmos the soul’s opportunity.<\/p>\n

The world was a conception and a birth<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOf Spirit in Matter into living forms,<\/p>\n

And Nature bore the Immortal in her womb,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThat she might climb through him to eternal life.<\/p>\n

His being lay down in bright immobile peace<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd bathed in wells of pure spiritual light;<\/p>\n

It wandered in wide fields of wisdom-self<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLit by the rays of an everlasting sun.<\/p>\n

Even his body’s subtle self within<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCould raise the earthly parts towards higher things<\/p>\n

And feel on it the breath of heavenlier air.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAlready it journeyed towards divinity:<\/p>\n

Upbuoyed upon winged winds of rapid joy,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUpheld to a Light it could not always hold,<\/p>\n

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It left mind’s distance from the Truth supreme<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd lost life’s incapacity for bliss.<\/p>\n

All now suppressed in us began to emerge.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThus came his soul’s release from Ignorance,<\/p>\n

His mind and body’s first spiritual change.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA wide God-knowledge poured down from above,<\/p>\n

A new world-knowledge broadened from within:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis daily thoughts looked up to the True and One,<\/p>\n

His commonest doings welled from an inner Light.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAwakened to the lines that Nature hides,<\/p>\n

Attuned to her movements that exceed our ken,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe grew one with a covert universe.<\/p>\n

His grasp surprised her mightiest energies’ springs;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe spoke with the unknown Guardians of the worlds,<\/p>\n

Forms he descried our mortal eyes see not.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis wide eyes bodied viewless entities,<\/p>\n

He saw the cosmic forces at their work<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd felt the occult impulse behind man’s will.<\/p>\n

Time’s secrets were to him an oft-read book;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe records of the future and the past<\/p>\n

Outlined their excerpts on the etheric page.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOne and harmonious by the Maker’s skill,<\/p>\n

The human in him paced with the divine;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis acts betrayed not the interior flame.<\/p>\n

This forged the greatness of his front to earth.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA genius heightened in his body’s cells<\/p>\n

That knew the meaning of his fate-hedged works<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAkin to the march of unaccomplished Powers<\/p>\n

Beyond life’s arc in spirit’s immensities.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tApart he lived in his mind’s solitude,<\/p>\n

A demigod shaping the lives of men:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOne soul’s ambition lifted up the race;<\/p>\n

A Power worked, but none knew whence it came.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe universal strengths were linked with his;<\/p>\n

Filling earth’s smallness with their boundless breadths,<\/p>\n

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He drew the energies that transmute an age.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImmeasurable by the common look,<\/p>\n

He made great dreams a mould for coming things<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd cast his deeds like bronze to front the years.<\/p>\n

His walk through Time outstripped the human stride.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLonely his days and splendid like the sun’s.<\/p>\n

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