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\n\t\t\t\tCANTO FOUR<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/B>
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\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\t THE
\n\t\t\t\tSECRET KNOWLEDGE<\/B><\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/B><\/SPAN>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
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 <\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tON
\n\t\t\t\ta height he stood that looked towards greater heights.<\/P><\/p>\n

Our
\n\t\t\t\tearly approaches to the Infinite<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Are sunrise splendours on a
\n\t\t\t\tmarvellous verge<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

While lingers yet unseen the glorious
\n\t\t\t\tsun.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

What now we see is a shadow of what must come.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The
\n\t\t\t\tearth’s uplook to a remote unknown<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Is a preface only of the
\n\t\t\t\tepic climb<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Of human soul from its flat earthly state<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

To the
\n\t\t\t\tdiscovery of a greater self <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthe far gleam of an eternal Light. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\tworld is a beginning and a base <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhere
\n\t\t\t\tLife and Mind erect their structured dreams; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tunborn Power must build reality. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tdeathbound littleness is not all we are:<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tImmortal
\n\t\t\t\tour forgotten vastnesses <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAwait
\n\t\t\t\tdiscovery in our summit selves; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUnmeasured
\n\t\t\t\tbreadths and depths of being are ours. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAkin
\n\t\t\t\tto the ineffable secrecy, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMystic,
\n\t\t\t\teternal in unrealised Time, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNeighbours
\n\t\t\t\tof Heaven are Nature’s altitudes. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tthese high-peaked dominions sealed to our search <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tToo
\n\t\t\t\tfar from surface Nature’s postal routes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tToo
\n\t\t\t\tlofty for our mortal lives to breathe, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDeep
\n\t\t\t\tin us a forgotten kinship points <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\ta faint voice of ecstasy and prayer <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCalls
\n\t\t\t\tto those lucent lost immensities. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\twhen we fail to look into our souls <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr<\/B><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\tlie embedded in
\n\t\t\t\tearthly consciousness, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tStill
\n\t\t\t\thave we parts that grow towards the Light,<\/P><\/p>\n

Yet are there
\n\t\t\t\tluminous tracts and heavens serene<\/FONT><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t43<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tEldoradoes of splendour and ecstasy <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\ttemples to the Godhead none can see. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tshapeless memory lingers in us still <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tsometimes, when our sight is turned within, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEarth’s
\n\t\t\t\tignorant veil is lifted from our eyes,<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tis a short miraculous escape. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\tnarrow fringe of clamped experience <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWe
\n\t\t\t\tleave behind meted to us as life, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tlittle walks, our insufficient reach. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\tsouls can visit
\n\t\t\t\tin great lonely hours <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tStill
\n\t\t\t\tregions of imperishable Light, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll-seeing
\n\t\t\t\teagle-peaks of silent Power <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tmoon-flame oceans of swift fathomless Bliss <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tcalm immensities of spirit Space. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\tthe unfolding
\n\t\t\t\tprocess of the Self <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tSometimes
\n\t\t\t\tthe inexpressible Mystery <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tElects
\n\t\t\t\ta human vessel of descent. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tbreath comes down from a supernal air, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpresence is borne, a guiding Light awakes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tstillness falls upon the instruments: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFixed
\n\t\t\t\tsometimes like a marble monument,<\/P><\/p>\n

Stone-calm, the body is a
\n\t\t\t\tpedestal<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Supporting a figure of eternal Peace.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\ta revealing
\n\t\t\t\tForce sweeps blazing in;<\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOut
\n\t\t\t\tof some vast superior continent<\/P><\/p>\n

Knowledge breaks through
\n\t\t\t\ttrailing its radiant seas,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And Nature trembles with the power,
\n\t\t\t\tthe flame.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A greater Personality sometimes<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Possesses us
\n\t\t\t\twhich yet we know is ours: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\twe adore the
\n\t\t\t\tMaster of our souls.<\/P><\/p>\n

Then the small bodily ego thins and
\n\t\t\t\tfalls; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNo
\n\t\t\t\tmore insisting on its separate self,<\/P><\/p>\n

Losing the punctilio of
\n\t\t\t\tits separate birth,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

It leaves us one with Nature and with
\n\t\t\t\tGod.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/B><\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tmoments when the inner lamps are lit<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the life’s cherished
\n\t\t\t\tguests are left outside,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Our<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\tspirit
\n\t\t\t\tsits alone and speaks to its gulfs.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A wider consciousness
\n\t\t\t\topens then its doors; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInvading
\n\t\t\t\tfrom spiritual silences<\/P><\/p>\n

A ray of<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\tthe
\n\t\t\t\ttimeless Glory stoops awhile<\/FONT> <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t44<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tcommune with our seized illumined clay<\/P><\/p>\n

And leaves its huge
\n\t\t\t\twhite stamp upon our lives.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In the oblivious field of mortal
\n\t\t\t\tmind,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Revealed to the closed prophet eyes of trance<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or in
\n\t\t\t\tsome deep internal solitude<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Witnessed by a strange immaterial
\n\t\t\t\tsense,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The signals of eternity appear.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The truth mind could
\n\t\t\t\tnot know unveils its face,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

We hear what mortal ears have never
\n\t\t\t\theard,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

We feel what earthly sense has never felt,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

We love
\n\t\t\t\twhat common hearts repel and dread; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tminds hush to a bright Omniscient,<\/P><\/p>\n

A Voice calls from the
\n\t\t\t\tchambers of the soul; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWe
\n\t\t\t\tmeet the ecstasy of the Godhead’s touch<\/P><\/p>\n

In golden privacies of
\n\t\t\t\timmortal fire.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

These signs are native to a larger self<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

That
\n\t\t\t\tlives within us by ourselves unseen; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOnly
\n\t\t\t\tsometimes a holier influence comes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\ttide of mightier surgings bears our lives <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\ta diviner Presence moves the soul. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tthrough the earthly coverings something breaks, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tgrace and beauty of spiritual light, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tmurmuring tongue of a celestial fire. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOurself
\n\t\t\t\tand a high stranger whom we feel, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tis and acts unseen as if it were not; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tfollows the line of sempiternal birth, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tYet
\n\t\t\t\tseems to perish with its mortal frame. . <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAssured
\n\t\t\t\tof the Apocalypse to be, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\treckons not the moments and the hours; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tGreat,
\n\t\t\t\tpatient, calm it sees the centuries pass,<\/P><\/p>\n

Awaiting the slow
\n\t\t\t\tmiracle of our change<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In the sure deliberate process of
\n\t\t\t\tworld-force<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the long march of all-revealing Time.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

It is
\n\t\t\t\tthe origin and the master-clue,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A Silence overhead, an inner
\n\t\t\t\tVoice,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A living image seated in the heart,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

An unwalled
\n\t\t\t\twideness and a fathomless point,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The truth of all these
\n\t\t\t\tcryptic shows in space,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The Real towards which our strivings
\n\t\t\t\tmove,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The secret grandiose meaning of our lives.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t45<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\ttreasure of honey in the combs of God, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tSplendour burning in a tenebrous cloak, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tis our glory of the flame of God, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tgolden fountain of the world’s delight, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\timmortality cowled in the cape of death, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tshape of our unborn divinity. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tguards for us our fate in depths within <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhere sleeps the
\n\t\t\t\teternal seed of transient things. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAlways
\n\t\t\t\twe bear in us a magic key <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tConcealed
\n\t\t\t\tin life’s hermetic envelope. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tburning witness in the sanctuary <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tRegards
\n\t\t\t\tthrough Time and the blind walls of Form; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\ttimeless Light is in his hidden eyes; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tsees the secret things no words can speak<\/P><\/p>\n

And knows the goal
\n\t\t\t\tof the unconscious world<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the heart of the mystery of the
\n\t\t\t\tjourneying years. <\/p>\n

<\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     But all is
\n\t\t\t\tscreened, subliminal, mystical; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tneeds the intuitive heart, the inward turn,<\/P><\/p>\n

It needs the power
\n\t\t\t\tof a spiritual gaze.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Else to our waking mind’s small moment
\n\t\t\t\tlook<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A goalless voyage seems our dubious course<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Some Chance
\n\t\t\t\thas settled or hazarded some Will,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or a Necessity without aim
\n\t\t\t\tor cause<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Unwillingly compelled To emerge and be.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In this
\n\t\t\t\tdense field where nothing is plain or sure; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tvery being seems to us questionable, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tlife a vague experiment, the soul <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tflickering light in a strange ignorant world, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tearth a brute mechanic accident, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tnet of death in which by chance we live. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\twe have learned appears a doubtful guess, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tachievement done a passage or a phase <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhose
\n\t\t\t\tfurther end is hidden from our sight, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tchance happening or a fortuitous fate. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOut
\n\t\t\t\tof the unknown we move to the unknown. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEver
\n\t\t\t\tsurround our brief existence here <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tGrey
\n\t\t\t\tshadows of unanswered questionings; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tdark Inconscient’s signless mysteries<\/P><\/p>\n

Stand up unsolved behind
\n\t\t\t\tFate’s starting line,<\/FONT><\/p>\n

<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t46<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\taspiration in the Night’s profound,<\/P><\/p>\n

Seed of a perishing body
\n\t\t\t\tand half-lit mind,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Uplifts its lonely tongue of conscious
\n\t\t\t\tfire<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Towards an undying Light for ever lost.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Only it hears,
\n\t\t\t\tsole echo of its call,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The dim reply in man’s unknowing
\n\t\t\t\theart<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And meets, not understanding why it came<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or for what
\n\t\t\t\treason is the suffering here,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

God’s sanction to the paradox of
\n\t\t\t\tlife<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the riddle of the Immortal’s birth in Time.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Along
\n\t\t\t\ta path of aeons serpentine<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In the coiled blackness of her
\n\t\t\t\tnescient course<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The Earth-Goddess toils across the sands of
\n\t\t\t\tTime.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A Being is in her whom she hopes to know,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A Word
\n\t\t\t\tspeaks to her heart she cannot hear,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A Fate compels whose form
\n\t\t\t\tshe cannot see.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In her unconscious orbit through the Void<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Out
\n\t\t\t\tof her mindless depths she strives to rise,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A perilous life
\n\t\t\t\ther gain, a struggling joy; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tThought that can conceive but hardly knows<\/P><\/p>\n

Arises slowly in
\n\t\t\t\ther and creates<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The idea, the speech that labels more than it
\n\t\t\t\tlights,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A trembling gladness that is less than bliss<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Invades
\n\t\t\t\tfrom all this beauty that must die.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Alarmed by the sorrow
\n\t\t\t\tdragging at her feet<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And conscious of the high things not yet
\n\t\t\t\twon,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Ever she nurses in her sleepless breast<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

An inward urge
\n\t\t\t\tthat takes from her rest and peace.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Ignorant and weary and
\n\t\t\t\tinvincible<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

She seeks through the soul’s war and quivering
\n\t\t\t\tpain<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The pure perfection her marred nature needs,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A breath
\n\t\t\t\tof Godhead on her stone and mire.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A faith she craves that can
\n\t\t\t\tsurvive defeat,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The sureness of a love that knows not
\n\t\t\t\tdeath,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The radiance of a truth for ever sure.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A light grows
\n\t\t\t\tin her, she assumes a voice,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her state she learns to read and
\n\t\t\t\tthe act she has done,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

But the one needed truth eludes her
\n\t\t\t\tgrasp,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Herself and all of which she is the sign.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

An
\n\t\t\t\tinarticulate whisper drives her steps <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t47<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\twhich she feels the force but not the sense; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tfew rare intimations come as guides, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tImmense
\n\t\t\t\tdivining flashes cleave her brain, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tsometimes in her hours of dream and muse <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\ttruth that she has missed looks out on her <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tif far off and yet within her soul. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tchange comes near that flees from her surmise <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd,
\n\t\t\t\tever postponed; compels attempt and hope, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tYet
\n\t\t\t\tseems too great for mortal hope to dare. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tvision meets her of supernal Powers <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\tdraw her as if mighty kinsmen lost <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tApproaching
\n\t\t\t\twith estranged great luminous gaze. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThen
\n\t\t\t\tis she moved to all that she is not <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tstretches arms to what was never hers. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOutstretching
\n\t\t\t\tarms to the unconscious Void, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPassionate
\n\t\t\t\tshe prays to invisible forms of Gods <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSoliciting
\n\t\t\t\tfrom dumb Fate and toiling Time <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhat
\n\t\t\t\tmost she needs, what most exceeds her scope, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tMind unvisited by illusion’s gleams, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tWill expressive of soul’s deity, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tStrength not forced to stumble by its speed, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tJoy that drags not sorrow as its shade. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\tthese she yearns and feels them destined hers: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHeaven’s
\n\t\t\t\tprivilege she claims as her own right.<\/P><\/p>\n

Just is her claim the
\n\t\t\t\tall-witnessing Gods approve,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Clear in a greater light than
\n\t\t\t\treason owns: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tintuitions are its title-deeds; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tsouls accept what our blind thoughts refuse. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEarth’s
\n\t\t\t\twinged chimeras are Truth’s steeds in Heaven., <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\timpossible God’s sign of things to be. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBut
\n\t\t\t\tfew can look beyond the present state <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\toverleap this matted hedge of sense. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\tthat transpires on earth and all beyond <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAre
\n\t\t\t\tparts of an illimitable plan <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tOne keeps in his heart and knows alone. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\toutward happenings have their seed within, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\teven this random Fate that imitates Chance, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\tmass of unintelligible results, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAre
\n\t\t\t\tthe dumb graph of truths that work unseen: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tlaws of the Unknown create the known. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t48<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tevents that shape the appearance of our lives<\/P><\/p>\n

Are a cipher of
\n\t\t\t\tsubliminal quiverings<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Which rarely we surprise or vaguely
\n\t\t\t\tfeel,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Are an outcome of suppressed realities<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

That hardly
\n\t\t\t\trise into material day: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tare born from the spirit’s sun of hidden powers<\/P><\/p>\n

Digging a
\n\t\t\t\ttunnel through emergency.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

But who shall pierce into the
\n\t\t\t\tcryptic gulf<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And learn what deep necessity of the
\n\t\t\t\tsoul<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Determined casual deed and consequence?<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Absorbed in a
\n\t\t\t\troutine of daily acts,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Our eyes are fixed on an external
\n\t\t\t\tscene; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWe
\n\t\t\t\thear the crash of the wheels of Circumstance<\/P><\/p>\n

And wonder at the
\n\t\t\t\thidden cause of things.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Yet a foreseeing Knowledge might be
\n\t\t\t\tours,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

If we could take our spirit’s stand within,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tIf<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\twe could, hear
\n\t\t\t\tthe muffled daemon voice.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Too seldom is the shadow of what
\n\t\t\t\tmust come<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Cast in an instant on the secret sense<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Which
\n\t\t\t\tfeels the shock of the invisible,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And seldom in the few who
\n\t\t\t\tanswer give<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The mighty process of the cosmic Will<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Communicates
\n\t\t\t\tits image to our sight,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Identifying the world’s mind with
\n\t\t\t\tours.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Our range is fixed within the crowded arc <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\twhat we observe and touch and thought can guess<\/P><\/p>\n

And rarely
\n\t\t\t\tdawns the light of the Unknown<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Waking in us the prophet and
\n\t\t\t\tthe seer.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The outward and the immediate are our field,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The
\n\t\t\t\tdead past is our background and support; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMind
\n\t\t\t\tkeeps the soul prisoner, we are slaves to our acts; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWe
\n\t\t\t\tcannot free our gaze to reach wisdom’s sun.<\/P><\/p>\n

Inheritor of the
\n\t\t\t\tbrief animal mind,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Man, still a child in Nature’s mighty
\n\t\t\t\thands,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In the succession of the moments lives; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\ta changing present is his narrow right; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tmemory stares back at a phantom past,<\/P><\/p>\n

The future flees before
\n\t\t\t\thim as he moves; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tsees imagined garments, not a face. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tArmed
\n\t\t\t\twith a limited precarious strength, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t49<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tsaves his fruits of work from adverse chance.<\/P><\/p>\n

A struggling
\n\t\t\t\tignorance is his wisdom’s mate.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He waits to see the
\n\t\t\t\tconsequence of his act<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He waits to weigh the certitude of
\n\t\t\t\this thoughts,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He knows not what he shall achieve or when; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tknows not whether at last he shall survive, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tend like the mastodon and the sloth <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tperish from the earth where he was king. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis ignorant of the meaning of his life, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis ignorant of his high and splendid fate. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOnly
\n\t\t\t\tthe Immortals on their deathless heights <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDwelling
\n\t\t\t\tbeyond the walls of Time and Space, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMasters
\n\t\t\t\tof living, free from the bonds of Thought, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWho
\n\t\t\t\tare overseers of Fate and Chance and Will <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\texperts of the theorem of world-need, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCan
\n\t\t\t\tsee the Idea, the Might that change Time’s course, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCome
\n\t\t\t\tmaned with light from undiscovered worlds, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHear,
\n\t\t\t\twhile the world toils on with its deep blind heart., <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tgalloping hooves of the unforeseen event, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBearing
\n\t\t\t\tthe superhuman rider, near <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd,
\n\t\t\t\timpassive to earth’s din and startled cry, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tReturn
\n\t\t\t\tto the silence of the hills of God; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tlightning leaps, as thunder sweeps, they pass <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tleave their mark on the trampled breast of Life. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAbove
\n\t\t\t\tthe world the world-creators stand, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe phenomenon see its mystic source. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThese
\n\t\t\t\theed not the deceiving outward play, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tturn not to the moment’s busy tramp, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBut
\n\t\t\t\tlisten with the still patience of the Unborn <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\tthe slow footsteps of far Destiny <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tApproaching
\n\t\t\t\tthrough huge distances of Time, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUnmarked
\n\t\t\t\tby the eye that sees effect and cause, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUnheard
\n\t\t\t\tmid the clamour of the human plane. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAttentive
\n\t\t\t\tto an unseen Truth they seize <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tsound as of invisible augur wings, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tVoices
\n\t\t\t\tof an unplumbed significance, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMutterings
\n\t\t\t\tthat brood in the core of Matter’s sleep. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe heart’s profound audition they can catch <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tmurmurs lost by life’s uncaring ear, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tprophet-speech in thought’s omniscient trance.<\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t50<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAbove
\n\t\t\t\tthe illusion of the hopes that pass, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBehind
\n\t\t\t\tthe appearance and the overt act, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBehind
\n\t\t\t\tthe clock-work chance and vague surmise, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAmid
\n\t\t\t\tthe wrestle of force, the trampling feet, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAcross
\n\t\t\t\tthe triumph, fighting and despair, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\twatch the Bliss for which earth’s heart has cried, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOn
\n\t\t\t\tthe long road which cannot see its end <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWinding
\n\t\t\t\tundetected through the sceptic days <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tto meet it guide the unheedful moving world. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThus
\n\t\t\t\twill the masked Transcendent mount his throne. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhen
\n\t\t\t\tdarkness deepens strangling the earth’s breast <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tman’s corporeal mind is the only lamp, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\ta thief’s in the night shall be the covert tread <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\tone who steps unseen into his house. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tVoice ill-heard shall speak, the soul obey, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpower into mind’s inner chamber steal, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tcharm and sweetness open life’s closed doors <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tbeauty conquer the resisting world, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\ttruth-light capture Nature by surprise, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tstealth of God compel the heart to bliss <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tearth grow unexpectedly divine. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tMatter shall be lit the spirit’s glow, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tbody and body kindled the sacred birth, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNight
\n\t\t\t\tshall awake to the anthem of the stars, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tdays become a happy pilgrim march, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\twill a force of the Eternal’s power, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthought the rays of a spiritual sun. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tfew shall see what none yet understands; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tGod
\n\t\t\t\tshall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep,<\/P><\/p>\n

For man shall
\n\t\t\t\tnot know the coming till its hour<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And belief shall be not till
\n\t\t\t\tthe work is done. <\/p>\n

<\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     A
\n\t\t\t\tconsciousness that knows not its own truth,<\/P><\/p>\n

A vagrant hunter
\n\t\t\t\tof misleading dawns,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Between the being’s dark and luminous
\n\t\t\t\tends<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Moves here in a half-light that seems the whole; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tinterregnum in Reality <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCuts
\n\t\t\t\toff the integral Thought, the total Power; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tcircles or stands in a vague interspace,<\/P><\/p>\n

Doubtful of its
\n\t\t\t\tbeginning and its close, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t51<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\truns upon a. road that has no end; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFar
\n\t\t\t\tfrom the original Dusk, the final Flame<\/P><\/p>\n

In some huge void
\n\t\t\t\tInconscience it lives,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Like a thought persisting in a wide
\n\t\t\t\temptiness.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

As if an unintelligible phrase<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Suggested a
\n\t\t\t\tmillion renderings to the Mind,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

It lends a purport to the
\n\t\t\t\trandom world.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A conjecture leaning upon doubtful proofs,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A
\n\t\t\t\tmessage misunderstood, a thought confused<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Missing its aim is
\n\t\t\t\tall that it can speak<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or a fragment of the universal word.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

It
\n\t\t\t\tleaves two giant letters void of sense<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

While without sanction
\n\t\t\t\tturns the middle sign<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Carrying an enigmatic universe,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

As if
\n\t\t\t\ta present without future or past<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Repeating the same
\n\t\t\t\trevolution’s whirl<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Turned on its axis in its own Inane.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Thus
\n\t\t\t\tis the meaning of creation veiled; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\twithout context reads the cosmic page: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tsigns stare at us like an unknown script,<\/P><\/p>\n

As if appeared
\n\t\t\t\tscreened by a foreign tongue<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or code of splendour signs
\n\t\t\t\twithout a key<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A portion of a parable sublime.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

It wears to
\n\t\t\t\tthe perishable creature’s eyes<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The grandeur of a useless
\n\t\t\t\tmiracle; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWasting
\n\t\t\t\titself that it may last awhile,<\/P><\/p>\n

A river that can never find
\n\t\t\t\tits sea,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

It runs through life and death on an edge of Time; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tfire in the Night is its mighty action’s blaze.<\/P><\/p>\n

This is our
\n\t\t\t\tdeepest need to join once more<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

What now is parted, opposite
\n\t\t\t\tand twain,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Remote in sovereign spheres that never meet<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or
\n\t\t\t\tfronting like far poles of Night and Day.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

We must fill the
\n\t\t\t\timmense lacuna we have made,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Re-wed the closed finite’s lonely
\n\t\t\t\tconsonant<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

With the open vowels of Infinity,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A hyphen must
\n\t\t\t\tconnect Matter and Mind,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The narrow isthmus of the ascending
\n\t\t\t\tsoul: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWe
\n\t\t\t\tmust renew the secret bond in things,<\/P><\/p>\n

Our hearts recall the
\n\t\t\t\tlost divine Idea; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t52<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tReconstitute
\n\t\t\t\tthe perfect word, unite<\/P><\/p>\n

The Alpha and the Omega in one sound; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThen
\n\t\t\t\tshall the Spirit and Nature be at one.<\/P><\/p>\n

Two are the ends of the
\n\t\t\t\tmysterious plan.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In the wide signless ether of the Self.,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In
\n\t\t\t\tthe unchanging Silence white and nude,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Aloof, resplendent like
\n\t\t\t\tgold dazzling suns<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Veiled by the Ray no mortal eye can
\n\t\t\t\tbear,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The Spirit’s free and absolute potencies<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Bum in the
\n\t\t\t\tsolitude of the thoughts of God.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A rapture and a radiance and
\n\t\t\t\ta hush<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Delivered from the approach of wounded hearts,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Denied
\n\t\t\t\tto the Idea that looks at grief,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Remote from the Force that
\n\t\t\t\tcries out in its pain,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In his inalienable bliss they
\n\t\t\t\tlive.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Immaculate in self-knowledge and self-power,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Calm
\n\t\t\t\tthey repose on the eternal Will.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Only his law they count and
\n\t\t\t\thim obey; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\thave no goal to reach, no aim to serve. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tImplacable
\n\t\t\t\tin their timeless purity, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\tbarter or bribe of worship they refuse; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUnmoved
\n\t\t\t\tby cry of revolt and ignorant prayer<\/P><\/p>\n

They reckon not our
\n\t\t\t\tvirtue and our sin,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

They bend not to the voices that
\n\t\t\t\timplore,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

They hold no traffic with error and its reign: <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tare guardians of the silence of the Truth, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tare keepers of the immutable decree. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tdeep surrender is their source of might, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tstill identity their way to know, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMotionless
\n\t\t\t\tis their action like a sleep. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAt
\n\t\t\t\tpeace, regarding the trouble beneath the stars, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDeathless,
\n\t\t\t\twatching the works of Death and Chance, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tImmobile,
\n\t\t\t\tseeing the millenniums pass, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUntouched
\n\t\t\t\twhile the long map of Fate unrolls, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tlook on our struggle with impartial eyes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tyet without them cosmos could not be. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tImpervious
\n\t\t\t\tto desire and doom and hope, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTheir
\n\t\t\t\tstation of inviolable might <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMoveless
\n\t\t\t\tupholds the world’s enormous task, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tignorance is by their knowledge lit, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t53<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tyearning lasts by their indifference. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tthe height draws the low ever to climb,<\/P><\/p>\n

As the breadths draw
\n\t\t\t\tthe small to adventure vast,<\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTheir
\n\t\t\t\taloofness drives man to surpass himself.<\/P><\/p>\n

Our passion heaves to
\n\t\t\t\twed the eternal calm, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tdwarf-search mind to meet the Omniscient’s force. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAcquiescing
\n\t\t\t\tin the wisdom that made hell <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthe harsh utility of death and tears, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAcquiescing
\n\t\t\t\tin the gradual steps of Time, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCareless
\n\t\t\t\tthey seem of the grief that stings the world’s heart, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCareless
\n\t\t\t\tof the pain that rends its body and life; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAbove
\n\t\t\t\tjoy and sorrow is that grandeur’s walk: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\thave no portion in the good that dies, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMute,
\n\t\t\t\tpure, they share not in the evil done; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tElse
\n\t\t\t\tmight their strength be marred and could not save. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAlive
\n\t\t\t\tto the truth that dwells in God’s extremes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAwake-to
\n\t\t\t\ta motion of all-seeing Force, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tslow venture of the long ambiguous years <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthe unexpected good from woeful deeds, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\timmortal sees not as we vainly see. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tlooks on hidden aspects and screened powers, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tknows the law and natural line of things. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUndriven
\n\t\t\t\tby a brief life’s will to act, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUnharassed
\n\t\t\t\tby the spur of pity and fear, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tmakes no haste to untie the cosmic knot <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tthe world’s torn jarring heart to reconcile. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tTime he waits for the Eternal’s hour.<\/P><\/p>\n

Yet a spiritual secret
\n\t\t\t\taid is there; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhile
\n\t\t\t\ta tardy Evolution’s coils wind on <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tNature hews her way through adamant<\/P><\/p>\n

A divine intervention
\n\t\t\t\tthrones above. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAlive
\n\t\t\t\tin a dead rotating universe <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWe
\n\t\t\t\twhirl not here upon a casual globe <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAbandoned
\n\t\t\t\tto a task beyond our force; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\tthrough the tangled anarchy called Fate <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthrough the bitterness of death and fall <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\toutstretched Hand is felt upon our lives. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tis near us in unnumbered bodies and births; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tits unshaken grasp it keeps for us safe <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tone inevitable supreme result <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t54<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNo
\n\t\t\t\twill can take away and no doom change,<\/P><\/p>\n

The crown of conscious
\n\t\t\t\tImmortality,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The godhead promised to our struggling souls<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

When
\n\t\t\t\tfirst man’s heart dared death and suffered life.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

One who has
\n\t\t\t\tshaped this world is ever its lord: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\terrors are his steps upon the way,<\/P><\/p>\n

He works through the fierce
\n\t\t\t\tvicissitudes of our lives,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He works through the hard breath of
\n\t\t\t\tbattle and toil,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He works through our sins and sorrows and our
\n\t\t\t\ttears,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His knowledge overrules our nescience,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Whatever the
\n\t\t\t\tappearance we must bear,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Whatever our strong ills and present
\n\t\t\t\tfate,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

When nothing we can see but drift and bale,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A mighty
\n\t\t\t\tGuidance leads us still through all.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

After we have served this
\n\t\t\t\tgreat divided world<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

God’s bliss and oneness are our inborn
\n\t\t\t\tright.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A date is fixed in the calendar of the Unknown,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

An
\n\t\t\t\tanniversary of the Birth sublime: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tsoul shall justify its chequered walk,<\/P><\/p>\n

All will come near that
\n\t\t\t\tnow is naught or far.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

These calm and distant Mights shall act
\n\t\t\t\tat last.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Immovably ready for their destined task,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The
\n\t\t\t\tever-wise compassionate Brilliances<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Await the sound of the
\n\t\t\t\tIncarnate’s voice<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

To leap and bridge the chasms of
\n\t\t\t\tIgnorance<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And heal the hollow yearning gulfs of Life<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\tfill the abyss that is the universe.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Here meanwhile at the
\n\t\t\t\tSpirit’s opposite pole<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In the mystery of the deeps that God
\n\t\t\t\thas built<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

For his abode below the Thinker’s sight,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In this
\n\t\t\t\tcompromise of a stark absolute Truth<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

With the Light that
\n\t\t\t\tdwells near the dark end of things,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In this tragi-comedy of
\n\t\t\t\tdivine disguise,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

This long far seeking for joy ever near,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In
\n\t\t\t\tthe grandiose dream of which the world is made,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In this gold
\n\t\t\t\tdome on a black dragon base,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The conscious Force that acts in
\n\t\t\t\tNature’s breast,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A dark-robed labourer in the cosmic
\n\t\t\t\tscheme<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Carrying clay images of unborn gods,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Executrix of
\n\t\t\t\tthe inevitable Idea <\/p>\n

<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t55<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHampered,
\n\t\t\t\tenveloped by the hoops of Fate,<\/P><\/p>\n

Patient trustee of slow
\n\t\t\t\teternal Time,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Absolves from hour to hour her secret
\n\t\t\t\tcharge.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

All she foresees in masked imperative depths; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tdumb intention of the unconscious gulfs<\/P><\/p>\n

Answers to a will that
\n\t\t\t\tsees upon the heights,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the evolving Word’s first
\n\t\t\t\tsyllable<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Ponderous, brute-sensed, contains its luminous
\n\t\t\t\tclose,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Privy to a summit victory’s vast descent<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the
\n\t\t\t\tportent of the soul’s immense uprise. <\/p>\n

<\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t      All here where
\n\t\t\t\teach thing seems its lonely self<\/P><\/p>\n

Are figures of the sole
\n\t\t\t\ttranscendent One: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOnly
\n\t\t\t\tby him they are, his breath is their life; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tunseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay.<\/P><\/p>\n

A playmate in the
\n\t\t\t\tmighty Mother’s game,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

One came upon the dubious whirling
\n\t\t\t\tglobe<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

To hide from her pursuit in force and form.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A secret
\n\t\t\t\tspirit in the Inconscient’s sleep,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A shapeless Energy, a
\n\t\t\t\tvoiceless Word,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He was here before the elements could
\n\t\t\t\temerge,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Before there was light of mind or life could
\n\t\t\t\tbreathe.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Accomplice of her cosmic huge pretence,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His
\n\t\t\t\tsemblances he turns to real shapes<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And makes the symbol equal
\n\t\t\t\twith the truth: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tgives to his timeless thoughts a form in Time.<\/P><\/p>\n

He is the
\n\t\t\t\tsubstance, he the self of things; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\thas forged from him her works of skill and might: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\twraps him in the magic of her moods<\/P><\/p>\n

And makes of his myriad
\n\t\t\t\ttruths her countless dreams.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The Master of being has come
\n\t\t\t\tclose to her,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

An immortal child born in the fugitive years.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In
\n\t\t\t\tobjects wrought, in the persons she conceives,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Dreaming she
\n\t\t\t\tchases her idea of him; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tcatches here a look and there a gest: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEver
\n\t\t\t\the repeats in them his ceaseless births.<\/P><\/p>\n

He is the Maker and
\n\t\t\t\tthe world he made,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He is the vision and he is the seer; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis himself the actor and the act,<\/P><\/p>\n

He is himself the knower and
\n\t\t\t\tthe known, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t56<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis himself the dreamer and the dream.<\/P><\/p>\n

There are Two who are
\n\t\t\t\tOne and play in many worlds; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tKnowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met<\/P><\/p>\n

And light and
\n\t\t\t\tdarkness are their eyes’ interchange.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Our pleasure and pain
\n\t\t\t\tare their wrestle and embrace,<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tdeeds, our hopes are intimate to their tale,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

They are married
\n\t\t\t\tsecretly in our thought and life.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The universe is an endless
\n\t\t\t\tmasquerade: <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\tnothing here is utterly what it seems,<\/P><\/p>\n

It is a dream-fact
\n\t\t\t\tvision of a truth<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Which but for the dream would not be wholly
\n\t\t\t\ttrue,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A phenomenon stands out significant<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Against dim
\n\t\t\t\tbackgrounds of eternity; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWe
\n\t\t\t\taccept its face and pass by all it means; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpart is seen, we take it for the whole.<\/P><\/p>\n

Thus have they made
\n\t\t\t\ttheir play with us for roles: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAuthor
\n\t\t\t\tand actor with himself as scene,<\/P><\/p>\n

He moves there as the Soul,
\n\t\t\t\tas Nature she.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Here on the earth where we must fill our
\n\t\t\t\tparts,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

We know not how shall run the drama’s course; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tuttered sentences veil in their thought.<\/P><\/p>\n

Her mighty plan she
\n\t\t\t\tholds back from our sight: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\thas concealed her glory and her bliss<\/P><\/p>\n

And disguised the Love
\n\t\t\t\tand Wisdom in her heart.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Of all the marvel and beauty that are
\n\t\t\t\thers<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Only a darkened little we can feel.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He too wears a
\n\t\t\t\tdiminished Godhead here,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He has forsaken his omnipotence,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His
\n\t\t\t\tcalm he has foregone and infinity.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He knows her only, he has
\n\t\t\t\tforgotten himself; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\ther he abandons all to make her great.<\/P><\/p>\n

He hopes in her to find
\n\t\t\t\thimself anew,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Incarnate, wedding his infinity’s peace<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

To
\n\t\t\t\ther creative passion’s ecstasy.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Although possessor of the
\n\t\t\t\tearth and heavens,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He leaves to her the cosmic management<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

.And
\n\t\t\t\twatches all, the Witness of her scene.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A supernumerary on her
\n\t\t\t\tstage,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He speaks no words or hides behind the wings.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He
\n\t\t\t\ttakes birth in her world, waits on her will, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t57<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDivines
\n\t\t\t\ther enigmatic gesture’s sense,<\/P><\/p>\n

The fluctuating chance turns of
\n\t\t\t\ther mood,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Works out her meanings she seems not to know<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\tserves her secret purpose in long Time.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

As one too great for
\n\t\t\t\thim he worships her; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tadores her as his regent of desire,<\/P><\/p>\n

He yields to her as the
\n\t\t\t\tmover of his will,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He burns the incense of his nights and
\n\t\t\t\tdays<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Offering his life, a splendour of sacrifice.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A rapt
\n\t\t\t\tsolicitor for her love and grace,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His bliss in her to him is
\n\t\t\t\this whole world: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tgrows through her in all his being’s powers; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\treads by her God’s hidden aim in things.<\/P><\/p>\n

Or, a courtier in her
\n\t\t\t\tcountless retinue,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Content to be with her and feel her near<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He
\n\t\t\t\tmakes the most of the little that she gives<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And all she does
\n\t\t\t\tdrapes with his own delight.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A glance can make his whole day
\n\t\t\t\twonderful,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A word from her lips with happiness wings the
\n\t\t\t\thours.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He leans on her for all he does and is: <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tbuilds on her largesses his proud fortunate days<\/P><\/p>\n

And trails
\n\t\t\t\this peacock-plumaged joy of life<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And suns in the glory of her
\n\t\t\t\tpassing smile.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In a thousand ways he serves her royal needs; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe makes the
\n\t\t\t\thours pivot around her will,<\/P><\/p>\n

Makes all reflect her whims; all
\n\t\t\t\tis their play: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\twhole wide world is only he and she. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     This is the knot
\n\t\t\t\tthat ties together the stars; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tTwo who are one are the secret of all power, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tTwo who are one are the might and right in things. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsoul, silent, supports the world and her, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tacts are her commandment’s registers. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHappy,
\n\t\t\t\tinert he lies beneath her feet: . <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tbreast he offers for her cosmic dance <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\twhich our lives are the quivering theatre, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tnone could bear but for his strength within, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tYet
\n\t\t\t\tnone would leave because of his delight. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tworks, his thoughts have been devised by her, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tbeing is a mirror vast of hers: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t58<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tActive, inspired
\n\t\t\t\tby her he speaks and moves; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis deeds obey
\n\t\t\t\ther heart’s unspoken demands: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPassive,
\n\t\t\t\the bears the impacts of the world<\/P><\/p>\n

As if her touches shaping
\n\t\t\t\this soul and life: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis journey
\n\t\t\t\tthrough the days is her sun-march; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\truns upon her roads, hers is his course.<\/P><\/p>\n

A witness and student
\n\t\t\t\tof her joy and dole,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A partner in her evil and her good,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He
\n\t\t\t\thas consented to her passionate ways,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He is driven by her
\n\t\t\t\tsweet and dreadful force.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His sanctioning name initials all
\n\t\t\t\ther works; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsilence is his signature to her deeds; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe execution of her drama’s scheme,<\/P><\/p>\n

In her fancies of the
\n\t\t\t\tmoment and its mood,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In the march of this obvious ordinary
\n\t\t\t\tworld<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Where all is deep and strange to the eyes that see<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\tNature’s common forms are marvel-wefts,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

She through his
\n\t\t\t\twitness sight and motion of might<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Unrolls the material of her
\n\t\t\t\tcosmic Act,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her happenings that exalt and smite the soul,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her
\n\t\t\t\tforce that moves, her powers that save and slay,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her Word that
\n\t\t\t\tin the silence speaks to our hearts,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her silence that
\n\t\t\t\ttranscends the summit Word,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her heights and depths to which
\n\t\t\t\tour spirit moves.,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her events that weave the texture of our
\n\t\t\t\tlives<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And all by which we find or lose ourselves,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Things
\n\t\t\t\tsweet and bitter, magnificent and mean,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Things terrible and
\n\t\t\t\tbeautiful and divine.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her empire in the cosmos she has
\n\t\t\t\tbuilt,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He is governed by her subtle and mighty laws.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His
\n\t\t\t\tconsciousness is a babe upon her knees,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her endless space is
\n\t\t\t\tthe playground of his thoughts,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His being a field of her vast
\n\t\t\t\texperiment; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tbinds to knowledge of the shapes of Time<\/P><\/p>\n

And the creative
\n\t\t\t\terror of limiting mind<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And chance that wears the rigid face of
\n\t\t\t\tfate<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And her sport of death and pain and Nescience,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His
\n\t\t\t\tchanged and struggling immortality.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His soul is a subtle atom
\n\t\t\t\tin a mass,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His substance a material for her works. <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t59<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tspirit survives amid the death of things, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tclimbs to eternity through being’s gaps, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis carried by her from Night to deathless Light. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\tgrand surrender is his free-will’s gift, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tpure transcendent force submits to hers. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe mystery of her cosmic ignorance, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe insoluble riddle of her play, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tcreature made of perishable stuff, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe pattern she has set for him he moves, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tthinks with her thoughts, with her trouble his bosom heaves; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tseems the thing that she would have him seem, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis whatever her artist will can make. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAlthough
\n\t\t\t\tshe drives him on her fancy’s roads, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAt
\n\t\t\t\tplay with him as with her child or slave, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tfreedom and the Eternal’s mastery <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\timmortality’s stand above the world; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tmoves her seeming puppet of an hour. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\tin his mortal session in body’s house <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\taimless traveller between birth and death, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEphemeral
\n\t\t\t\tdreaming of immortality, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\treign she spurs him. He takes up her powers; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\thas harnessed her to the yoke of her own law. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tface of human thought puts on a crown. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHeld
\n\t\t\t\tin her leash, bound to her veiled caprice, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tstudies her ways if so he may prevail <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\tfor an hour and she work out his will; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tmakes of her his moment passion’s serf: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tobey she feigns, she follows her creature’s lead: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\thim she was made, lives only for his use. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBut
\n\t\t\t\tconquering her, then is he most her slave; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis her dependent, all his means are hers; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNothing
\n\t\t\t\twithout her he can, she rules him still. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAt
\n\t\t\t\tlast he wakes to a memory of Self: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tsees within the face of deity, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tGodhead breaks out through the human mould: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\thighest heights she unmasks and is his mate.<\/P><\/p>\n

Till then he is a
\n\t\t\t\tplaything in her game; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tseeming regent, yet her fancy’s toy, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tliving robot moved by her energy’s springs, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tacts as in the movements of a dream, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t60<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tautomaton stepping in the grooves of Fate,<\/P><\/p>\n

He stumbles on
\n\t\t\t\tdriven by her whip of Force: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tthought labours, a bullock in Time’s fields; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\twill he thinks his own, is shaped in her forge.<\/P><\/p>\n

Obedient to
\n\t\t\t\tWorld-Nature’s dumb control,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Driven by his own formidable
\n\t\t\t\tPower,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His chosen partner in a titan game<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her will he has
\n\t\t\t\tmade the master of his fate,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her whim the dispenser of his
\n\t\t\t\tpleasure and pain,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He has sold himself into her regal
\n\t\t\t\tpower<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

For any blow or boon that she may choose: <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\tin what is suffering to our sense,<\/P><\/p>\n

He feels the sweetness of
\n\t\t\t\ther mastering touch,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In all experience meets her blissful
\n\t\t\t\thands; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOn
\n\t\t\t\this heart he bears the happiness of her tread<\/P><\/p>\n

And the surprise
\n\t\t\t\tof her arrival’s joy<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In each event and every moment’s
\n\t\t\t\tchance.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

All she can do is marvellous in his sight: <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\trevels in her, a swimmer in her sea,<\/P><\/p>\n

A tireless amateur of her
\n\t\t\t\tworld-delight,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He rejoices in her every thought and act<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\tgives consent to all that she can wish; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhatever
\n\t\t\t\tshe desires he wills to be: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tSpirit, the innumerable One<\/P><\/p>\n

He has left behind his lone
\n\t\t\t\teternity,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He is an endless birth in endless Time,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her
\n\t\t\t\tfinite’s multitude in an infinite space. <\/p>\n

<\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     The master of
\n\t\t\t\texistence lurks in us<\/P><\/p>\n

And plays at hide and seek with his own
\n\t\t\t\tForce; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tNature’s instrument loiters secret God.<\/P><\/p>\n

The Immanent lives in
\n\t\t\t\tman as in his house; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\thas made the universe his pastime’s field,<\/P><\/p>\n

A vast gymnasium of
\n\t\t\t\this works of might.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

All-knowing he accepts our darkened
\n\t\t\t\tstate,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Divine, wears shapes of animal or man; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEternal,
\n\t\t\t\the assents to Fate and Time,<\/P><\/p>\n

Immortal, dallies with
\n\t\t\t\tmortality.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The All-Conscious ventured into Ignorance,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The
\n\t\t\t\tAll-Blissful bore to be insensible. <\/p>\n

<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t61<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIncarnate
\n\t\t\t\tin a world of strife and pain,<\/P><\/p>\n

He puts on joy and sorrow like
\n\t\t\t\ta robe<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And drinks experience like a strengthening wine.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He
\n\t\t\t\twhose transcendence rules the pregnant Vasts,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Prescient now
\n\t\t\t\tdwells in our subliminal depths,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A luminous individual Power,
\n\t\t\t\talone. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe Absolute,
\n\t\t\t\tthe Perfect, the Alone<\/P><\/p>\n

Has called out of the Silence his mute
\n\t\t\t\tForce<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Where she lay in the featureless and formless
\n\t\t\t\thush<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Guarding from Time by her immobile sleep<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The ineffable
\n\t\t\t\tpuissance of his solitude.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The Absolute, the Perfect, the
\n\t\t\t\tAlone<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Has entered with his silence into space; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\thas fashioned these countless persons of one self; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tlives in all, who lived in his Vast alone,<\/P><\/p>\n

Space is himself
\n\t\t\t\tand Time is only he.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The Absolute, the Perfect, the
\n\t\t\t\tImmune,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

One who is in us as our secret self,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Our mask of
\n\t\t\t\timperfection has assumed,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He has made this tenement of flesh
\n\t\t\t\this own,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His image in the human measure cast<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

That to his
\n\t\t\t\tdivine measure we might rise; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThen
\n\t\t\t\tin a figure of divinity <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tMaker shall recast us and impose <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tplan of godhead on the mortal’s mould <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLifting
\n\t\t\t\tour finite minds to his infinite, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTouching
\n\t\t\t\tthe moment with eternity. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\ttransfiguration is earth’s due to heaven: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tmutual debt binds man to the Supreme: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tnature we must put on as he put ours; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWe
\n\t\t\t\tare sons of God and must be even as he: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\thuman portion, we must grow divine.<\/P><\/p>\n

Our life is a paradox with
\n\t\t\t\tGod for key. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     But meanwhile
\n\t\t\t\tall is a shadow cast by a dream<\/P><\/p>\n

And to the musing and immobile
\n\t\t\t\tSpirit<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Life and himself don the aspect of a myth,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

The
\n\t\t\t\tburden of a long unmeaning tale.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

For the key is hid and by the
\n\t\t\t\tInconscient kept; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tsecret God beneath the threshold dwells.<\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t62<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\ta body obscuring the immortal Spirit<\/P><\/p>\n

A nameless Resident
\n\t\t\t\tvesting unseen powers,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

With Matter’s shapes and motives beyond
\n\t\t\t\tthought<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the hazard of an unguessed consequence,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

An
\n\t\t\t\tomnipotent indiscernible Influence,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He sits, unfelt by the
\n\t\t\t\tform in which he lives<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And veils his knowledge by the groping
\n\t\t\t\tmind.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A wanderer in a world his thoughts have made,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He
\n\t\t\t\tturns in a chiaroscuro of error and truth<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

To find a wisdom
\n\t\t\t\tthat on high is his.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

As one forgetting he searches for
\n\t\t\t\thimself,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

As if he had lost an inner light he seeks: <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\ta sojourner lingering amid alien scenes<\/P><\/p>\n

He journeys to a home
\n\t\t\t\the knows no more.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His own self’s truth he seeks who is the
\n\t\t\t\tTruth,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He is the Player who became the play,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He is the
\n\t\t\t\tThinker who became the thought; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis the many who was the silent One.<\/P><\/p>\n

In the symbol figures of
\n\t\t\t\tthe cosmic Force<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And in her living and inanimate signs<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\tin her complex tracery of events<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He explores the ceaseless
\n\t\t\t\tmiracle of himself,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Till the thousand fold enigma has been
\n\t\t\t\tsolved<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

In the single light of an all-witnessing Soul.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

<\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     This was .his
\n\t\t\t\tcompact with his mighty mate,<\/P><\/p>\n

For love of her and joined to
\n\t\t\t\ther for ever<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

To follow the course of Time’s eternity,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Amid
\n\t\t\t\tmagic dramas of her sudden moods<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the surprises of her
\n\t\t\t\tmasked Idea<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the vicissitudes of her vast caprice.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Two
\n\t\t\t\tseem his goals, yet ever are they one<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And gaze at each other
\n\t\t\t\tover bourneless Time; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSpirit
\n\t\t\t\tand Matter are their end and source.<\/P><\/p>\n

A seeker of hidden
\n\t\t\t\tmeanings in life’s forms,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Of the great Mother’s wide uncharted
\n\t\t\t\twill<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the rude enigma of her terrestrial ways<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He is the
\n\t\t\t\texplorer and the mariner<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

On a secret inner ocean without
\n\t\t\t\tbourne: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tis the adventurer and cosmologist<\/P><\/p>\n

Of a magic earth’s obscure
\n\t\t\t\tgeography. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t63<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\ther material order’s fixed design<\/P><\/p>\n

Where all seems sure and
\n\t\t\t\teven when changed, the same, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\tthough the end is left for ever unknown<\/P><\/p>\n

And ever unstable is
\n\t\t\t\tlife’s shifting flow,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His paths are found for him by silent
\n\t\t\t\tfate; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tstations in the ages’ weltering flood<\/P><\/p>\n

Firm lands appear that
\n\t\t\t\ttempt and stay awhile,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Then new horizons lure the mind’s
\n\t\t\t\tadvance.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

There comes no close to the finite’s
\n\t\t\t\tboundlessness,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

There is no last certitude in which thought can
\n\t\t\t\tpause <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tno terminus of the soul’s experience. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tlimit, a farness never wholly reached, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tunattained perfection calls to him <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFrom
\n\t\t\t\tdistant boundaries in the "Unseen: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tlong beginning only has been made. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     This is the
\n\t\t\t\tsailor on the flow of Time,<\/P><\/p>\n

This is World-Matter’s slow
\n\t\t\t\tdiscoverer,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Who, launched into this small corporeal birth, <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHas
\n\t\t\t\tlearnt his craft in tiny bays of self,<\/P><\/p>\n

But dares at last
\n\t\t\t\tunplumbed infinitudes,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A voyager upon eternity’s seas. <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\this world-adventure’s crude initial start<\/P><\/p>\n

Behold him ignorant
\n\t\t\t\tof his godhead’s force,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Timid initiate of its vast design.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

An
\n\t\t\t\texpert captain of a fragile craft,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A trafficker in small
\n\t\t\t\timpermanent ware<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

At first he hugs the shore and shuns the
\n\t\t\t\tbreadths,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Dares not to affront the far-off perilous main. <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tin a petty coastal traffic plies,<\/P><\/p>\n

His pay doled out from port
\n\t\t\t\tto neighbour port,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Content with his safe round’s unchanging
\n\t\t\t\tcourse,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He hazards not the new and the unseen.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

But now he
\n\t\t\t\thears the sound of larger seas.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

A widening world calls him to
\n\t\t\t\tdistant scenes<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\tjourneyings in a larger vision’s arc<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\tpeoples unknown and still unvisited shores.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

On a commissioned
\n\t\t\t\tkeel his merchant hull<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Serves the world’s commerce in the
\n\t\t\t\triches of Time<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Severing the foam of a great land-locked sea <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t<\/P><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t64<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/p>\n

<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo reach
\n\t\t\t\tunknown, harbour lights in distant climes <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\topen markets for life’s opulent arts,<\/P><\/p>\n

Rich bales, carved
\n\t\t\t\tstatuettes, hued canvases,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And jewelled toys brought for an
\n\t\t\t\tinfant’s play<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And perishable products of hard toil<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\ttransient splendours won and lost by the days’.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or passing
\n\t\t\t\tthrough a gate of pillar-rocks,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Venturing not yet to cross
\n\t\t\t\toceans unnamed<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And journey into a dream of distances<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He
\n\t\t\t\ttravels close to unfamiliar coasts<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And finds new haven in
\n\t\t\t\tstorm-troubled isles,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Or, guided by a sure compass in his
\n\t\t\t\tthought,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He plunges through a bright haze that hides the
\n\t\t\t\tstars,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Steering on the trade-routes of Ignorance.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His prow
\n\t\t\t\tpushes towards undiscovered shores,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He chances on unimagined
\n\t\t\t\tcontinents: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tseeker of the islands of the Blest,<\/P><\/p>\n

He leaves the last lands,
\n\t\t\t\tcrosses the ultimate seas,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He turns to eternal things his
\n\t\t\t\tsymbol quest; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLife
\n\t\t\t\tchanges for him its time-constructed scenes,<\/P><\/p>\n

Its images
\n\t\t\t\tveiling infinity.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Earth’s borders recede and the terrestrial
\n\t\t\t\tair<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Hangs round him no longer its translucent veil.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He has
\n\t\t\t\tcrossed the limit of mortal thought and hope,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He has reached
\n\t\t\t\tthe world’s end and stares beyond; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\teyes of mortal body plunge their gaze <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInto
\n\t\t\t\tEyes that look upon eternity. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tgreater world Time’s traveller must explore. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAt
\n\t\t\t\tlast he hears a chanting on the heights <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthe far speaks and the unknown grows near: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tcrosses the boundaries of the unseen<\/P><\/p>\n

And passes over the edge
\n\t\t\t\tof mortal sight<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

To a new vision of himself and things.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He
\n\t\t\t\tis a spirit in an unfinished world<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

That knows him not and
\n\t\t\t\tcannot know itself: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tsurface symbol of his goalless quest <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTakes
\n\t\t\t\tdeeper meanings to his inner view; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tis a search of darkness for the light, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\tmortal life for immortality. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe vessel of an earthly embodiment <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t65<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOver
\n\t\t\t\tthe narrow rails of limiting sense <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tlooks out on the magic waves of Time <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhere
\n\t\t\t\tmind like a moon illumines the world’s dark. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tis limned ever retreating from the eyes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tif in a tenuous misty dream-light drawn, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\toutline of a dim mysterious shore.<\/P><\/p>\n

A sailor on the
\n\t\t\t\tInconscient’s fathomless sea,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

He voyages through a starry
\n\t\t\t\tworld of thought<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

On Matter’s deck to a spiritual sun. <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAcross
\n\t\t\t\tthe noise and multitudinous cry, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAcross
\n\t\t\t\tthe rapt unknowable silences, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThrough
\n\t\t\t\ta strange mid-world under supernal skies,<\/P><\/p>\n

Beyond earth’s
\n\t\t\t\tlongitudes and latitudes,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

His goal is fixed outside all
\n\t\t\t\tpresent maps.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

But none learns whither through the unknown he
\n\t\t\t\tsails <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\twhat secret mission the great Mother gave.<\/P><\/p>\n

In the hidden
\n\t\t\t\tstrength of her omnipotent Will,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Driven by her breath across
\n\t\t\t\tlife’s tossing deep, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThrough
\n\t\t\t\tthe thunder’s roar and through the windless hush, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThrough
\n\t\t\t\tfog and mist where nothing more is seen, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tcarries her sealed orders in his breast. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLate
\n\t\t\t\twill he know, opening the mystic script, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhether
\n\t\t\t\tto a blank port in the Unseen <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tgoes, or armed with her fiat, to discover <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tnew mind and body in the city of God <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tenshrine the Immortal in his glory’s house <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tmake the finite one with Infinity. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAcross
\n\t\t\t\tthe salt waste of the endless years <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tocean winds impel his errant boat, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tcosmic waters plashing as he goes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\trumour around him and danger and a call. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAlways
\n\t\t\t\the follows in her force’s wake. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tsails through life and death and other life, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\ttravels on through waking and through sleep. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpower is on him from her occult force <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\tties him to his own creation’s fate, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tnever can the mighty traveller rest<\/P><\/p>\n

And never can the mystic
\n\t\t\t\tvoyage cease,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Till the nescient dusk is lifted from man’s
\n\t\t\t\tsoul<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

And the morns of God have overtaken his night.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t66<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tlong as Nature lasts, he too is there; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\tthis is sure that he and she are one. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\twhen he sleeps, he keeps her on his breast: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhoever
\n\t\t\t\tleaves her, he will not depart<\/P><\/p>\n

To repose without her in the
\n\t\t\t\tUnknowable.<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

There is a truth to know, a work to do,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

Her
\n\t\t\t\tplay is real; a Mystery he fulfils: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tis a plan in the Mother’s deep world-whim, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpurpose in her vast and random game. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\tever she meant since the first dawn of life, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\tconstant will she covered with her sport, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tevoke a person in the impersonal Void, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWith
\n\t\t\t\tthe Truth-Light strike earth’s massive roots of trance, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWake
\n\t\t\t\ta dumb self in the inconscient depths <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\traise a lost power from its python sleep <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\tthe eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthe world manifest the unveiled Divine. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\tthis he left his white infinity <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tlaid on the Spirit the burden of the flesh, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\tGodhead’s seed might flower in mindless Space. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t67<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t


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