{"id":3400,"date":"2013-07-13T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:48:09","slug":"05-book-1-canto-3-the-yoga-of-the-king-vol-01-savitri-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/02-other-editions\/01-savitri\/01-savitri-1950\/05-book-1-canto-3-the-yoga-of-the-king-vol-01-savitri-1950","title":{"rendered":"-05_ Book 1 Canto 3 The Yoga of The King.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\tCANTO THREE <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/B>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tTHE YOGA OF THE
\n\t\t\t\tKING: <\/FONT> <\/B>
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\n\t\t\t\tTHE YOGA OF THE
\n\t\t\t\tSOUL’S RELEASE <\/FONT> <\/B>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tWORLD’S desire compelled her mortal birth. <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tOne
\n\t\t\t\tin the front of the immemorial quest, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tProtagonist
\n\t\t\t\tof the mysterious play <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\twhich the Unknown pursues himself through forms <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tlimits his eternity by the hours <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthe blind Void struggles to live and see, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tthinker and toiler in the ideal’s <\/b> air, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tBrought
\n\t\t\t\tdown to earth’s dumb need her radiant power. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\twas a spirit that stooped from larger spheres <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tInto
\n\t\t\t\tour province of ephemeral sight, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tcolonist from immortality. <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpointing beam on earth’s uncertain roads, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tbirth held up a symbol and a sign; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\thuman self like a translucent cloak <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tCovered
\n\t\t\t\tthe All-Wise who leads the unseeing world. <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tAffiliated
\n\t\t\t\tto cosmic Space and Time <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tpaying here God’s debt to earth and man <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tgreater sonship was his divine right. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tAlthough
\n\t\t\t\tconsenting to mortal ignorance, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tknowledge shared the Light ineffable. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tstrength of the original Permanence <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tEntangled
\n\t\t\t\tin the moment and its flow, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tkept the vision of the Vasts behind: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpower was in him from the Unknowable. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tarchivist of the symbols of the Beyond, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\ttreasurer of superhuman dreams, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tbore the stamp of mighty memories <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tshed their grandiose ray on human life. <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tdays were a long growth to the Supreme.<\/FONT><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t22<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tskyward being nourishing its roots <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tOn
\n\t\t\t\tsustenance from occult spiritual founts <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tClimbed
\n\t\t\t\tthrough white rays to meet an unseen Sun. <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsoul lived as eternity’s delegate, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tHis <\/B>
\n\t\t\t\tmind was like a fire assailing heaven, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\twill a hunter in the trails of light. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tocean impulse lifted every breath; <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tEach
\n\t\t\t\taction left the footprints of a God, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tEach
\n\t\t\t\tmoment was a beat of puissant wings.<\/P><\/p>\n

The little plot of our
\n\t\t\t\tmortality<\/p>\n

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

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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tplayground of the living Infinite.<\/P><\/p>\n

This bodily appearance is
\n\t\t\t\tnot all; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tform deceives, the person is a mask; <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tHid
\n\t\t\t\tdeep in man celestial powers can dwell.<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

An incognito of the
\n\t\t\t\tImperishable. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tspirit that is a flame of God abides, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tfiery portion of the Wonderful, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tArtist
\n\t\t\t\tof his own beauty and delight, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tImmortal
\n\t\t\t\tin our mortal poverty.<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

This screened unrecognised Inhabitant,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Hides in a small dumb seed his
\n\t\t\t\tcosmic thought.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Determining predestined shape and act,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Changing his imaged self
\n\t\t\t\tfrom form to form,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tin the worm foresees the coming god.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He feels his
\n\t\t\t\tsubstance of undying self<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

His
\n\t\t\t\tthought stretches into infinitude: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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

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

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\n\t\t\t\t23<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\t


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

He has drunk from. the
\n\t\t\t\tbreasts of the Mother of the worlds; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\ttopless supernature fills his frame: <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tadopts his spirit’s everlasting ground<\/P><\/p>\n

As the security of her
\n\t\t\t\tchanging world<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

In
\n\t\t\t\tthe creature the unveiled creatrix works; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tface is seen through his face, her eyes through his eyes; <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tbeing is his through a vast identity.<\/P><\/p>\n

Then is revealed in man
\n\t\t\t\tthe overt Divine.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Descend
\n\t\t\t\tin him, the integral Godhead’s seals; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsoul and body take that splendid stamp.<\/P><\/p>\n

A long dim preparation
\n\t\t\t\tis man’s life,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Tracked out by Life on Matter’s obscure ground<\/p>\n

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

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

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

He seeks
\n\t\t\t\tthrough a penumbra shot with flame<\/p>\n

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

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

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

A search for something or someone
\n\t\t\t\tnever found,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

An
\n\t\t\t\tendless spiral of ascent and fall<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Through which his Glory shines for whom we were
\n\t\t\t\tmade <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tI
\n\t\t\t\tAnd we break into the infinity of God.<\/P><\/p>\n

Across our nature’s
\n\t\t\t\tborder line we escape<\/p>\n

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

Into supernature’s arc of living light. <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\tnow was witnessed in that son of Force, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\thim that high transition laid its base. <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tOriginal
\n\t\t\t\tand supernal Immanence <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\twhich all Nature’s process is the art, <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tcosmic Worker set his secret hand <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tturn this frail mud-engine to heaven-use. <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tPresence wrought behind the ambiguous screen: <\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tbeat his soil to bear a Titan’s weight,<\/P><\/p>\n

Refining half-hewn
\n\t\t\t\tblocks of natural strength<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then came the abrupt transcendent
\n\t\t\t\tmiracle: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tmasked immaculate Grandeur could outline,<\/P><\/p>\n

At travail in the
\n\t\t\t\toccult womb of life,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Annexed divinity to the mortal
\n\t\t\t\tscheme.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

For him
\n\t\t\t\tmind’s limiting firmament ceased above,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

A gap was rent in the
\n\t\t\t\tall-concealing vault; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tconscious ends of being went rolling back: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

The island ego joined its
\n\t\t\t\tcontinent: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tOverpassed
\n\t\t\t\twas this world of rigid limiting forms: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLife’s
\n\t\t\t\tbarriers opened into the Unknown.<\/P><\/p>\n

Abolished were conception’s
\n\t\t\t\tcovenants<\/p>\n

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

And, striking off subjection’s rigorous
\n\t\t\t\tclause<\/p>\n

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

Annulled the soul’s treaty with Nature’s nescience.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And broken the intellect’s
\n\t\t\t\thard and lustrous lid,<\/p>\n

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

Truth unpartitioned found immense
\n\t\t\t\tsky-room; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tempyrean vision saw and knew; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tbounded mind became a boundless light,<\/P><\/p>\n

The finite self mated
\n\t\t\t\twith Infinity.<\/p>\n

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

His march now soared into an eagle’s
\n\t\t\t\tflight.<\/p>\n

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

Out of apprenticeship to Ignorance<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And made him an arch-mason of the
\n\t\t\t\tsoul,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

An aspirant
\n\t\t\t\tto supernal Timelessness: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tFreedom
\n\t\t\t\tand empire called to him from on high; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\t      As
\n\t\t\t\tso he grew into his larger self,<\/P><\/p>\n

Humanity framed his movements
\n\t\t\t\tless and less,<\/p>\n

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

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

<\/FONT>
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\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t25<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tfearless will for knowledge dared to erase <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tlines of safety reason draws that bar <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMind’s
\n\t\t\t\tsoar, soul’s dive into the Infinite. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\this first steps broke our small earth-bounds <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tloitered in a vaster freer air. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\thands sustained by a transfiguring Might <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tcaught up lightly like a giant’s <\/b>bow <\/b> <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLeft
\n\t\t\t\tslumbering in a sealed and secret cave <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tpowers that sleep unused in man within. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tmade of miracle a normal act <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd,
\n\t\t\t\tturned to a common part of divine works, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMagnificently
\n\t\t\t\tnatural at this height <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEfforts
\n\t\t\t\tthat would shatter the strength of mortal hearts, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPursued
\n\t\t\t\tin a royalty of mighty ease <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAims
\n\t\t\t\ttoo sublime for Nature’s daily will: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tgifts of the spirit crowding came to him; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\twere his life’s pattern and his privilege.<\/P><\/p>\n

A pure perception
\n\t\t\t\tlent its lucent joy: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tintimate vision waited not to think; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

It looked into the
\n\t\t\t\tvery self of things; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tDeceived
\n\t\t\t\tno more by form he saw the soul. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tbeings, it knew what lurked to them unknown; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tseized the idea in mind, the wish in the heart; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tplucked out from grey folds of secrecy <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tmotives which from their own sight men hide. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tfelt the beating life in other men <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInvade
\n\t\t\t\thim with their happiness and their grief; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTheir
\n\t\t\t\tlove, their anger, their unspoken hopes <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEntered
\n\t\t\t\tin currents or in pouring waves <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInto
\n\t\t\t\tthe immobile ocean of his calm. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\theard the inspired sound of his own thoughts <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tRe-echoed
\n\t\t\t\tin the vault of other minds; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tworld’s thought-streams travelled into his ken; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

And bore a kinship’s
\n\t\t\t\tweight, a common tie,<\/p>\n

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

Yet stood untouched, king of itself,
\n\t\t\t\talone.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

To ethereal
\n\t\t\t\tsymphonies the old earthy strings; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\traised the servitors of mind and life <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t26<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tbe happy partners in the soul’s response, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTissue
\n\t\t\t\tand nerve were turned to sensitive chords, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tRecords
\n\t\t\t\tof lustre and ecstasy, it made <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tbody’s means the spirit’s acolytes. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\theavenlier function with a finer mode <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLit
\n\t\t\t\twith its grace man’s outward earthliness; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tsoul’s experience of its deeper sheaths <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNo
\n\t\t\t\tmore slept drugged by Matter’s dominance. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe dead wall closing us from wider self, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInto
\n\t\t\t\ta secrecy of apparent sleep, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tmystic tract beyond our waking thoughts; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tdoor parted, built in by Matter’s force,<\/P><\/p>\n

Releasing things
\n\t\t\t\tunseized by earthly sense: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tworld unseen, unknown by outward mind <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAppeared
\n\t\t\t\tin the silent spaces, of the soul. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tsat in secret chambers looking out <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInto
\n\t\t\t\tthe luminous countries of the unborn <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhere
\n\t\t\t\tall things dreamed by the mind are seen and true <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tall that the life longs for is drawn close. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tsaw the Perfect in their starry homes <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWearing
\n\t\t\t\tthe glory of a deathless form <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLain
\n\t\t\t\tin the arms of the Eternal’s peace, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tRapt
\n\t\t\t\tin the heart-beats of God-ecstasy. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tlived in the mystic space where thought is bom <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\twill is nursed by an ethereal Power <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tfed on the white milk of the Eternal’s strengths <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTill
\n\t\t\t\tit grows into the likeness of a god. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe Witness’s occult rooms with mind-built walls <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOn
\n\t\t\t\thidden interiors, lurking passages <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOpened
\n\t\t\t\tthe windows of the inner sight. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\towned the house of undivided Time. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLifting
\n\t\t\t\tthe heavy curtain of the flesh <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tstood upon a threshold serpent-watched, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tpeered into gleaming endless corridors, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSilent
\n\t\t\t\tand listening in the silent heart <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\tthe coming of the new and the unknown. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tgazed across the empty stillnesses <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\theard the footsteps of the <\/b> undreamed Idea <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe far avenues of the Beyond. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\theard the secret Voice, the Word that knows,<\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t27<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


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

The inner planes
\n\t\t\t\tuncovered their crystal doors,<\/p>\n

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

Strange powers and influences
\n\t\t\t\ttouched his life.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tconsciousness of brighter fields and skies,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And subtler bodies than
\n\t\t\t\tthese passing frames,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Acts vibrant with a superhuman light<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And joys that never flowed
\n\t\t\t\tthrough mortal limbs,<\/p>\n

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

And lovelier scenes than earth’s and
\n\t\t\t\thappier lives.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

Replaced the
\n\t\t\t\tseparated sense and heart<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The mind leaned out to meet the hidden worlds.<\/p>\n

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

Air
\n\t\t\t\tglowed and teemed with marvellous shapes and hues,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hearing
\n\t\t\t\twas a stream of magic audience,<\/p>\n

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

A bed for occult sounds earth
\n\t\t\t\tcannot hear.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

That flows beneath
\n\t\t\t\tthe cosmic surfaces<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Held
\n\t\t\t\tby intuitive heart and secret sense.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

It voiced the unfulfilled demand of
\n\t\t\t\tearth<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And all
\n\t\t\t\tthat hides in an omnipotent Sleep.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tlaughter of sleepless pleasure foamed and spumed<\/p>\n

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tmurmurings of desire that cannot die: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

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

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

Recall of the soul’s adventure
\n\t\t\t\tinto space, <\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t28<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\ttraveller through the magic centuries<\/P><\/p>\n

And being’s labour in
\n\t\t\t\tMatter’s universe,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And joy of high spiritual response<\/p>\n

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

Its throb of
\n\t\t\t\tsatisfaction and content,<\/p>\n

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

In all the sweetness of the gifts of
\n\t\t\t\tlife; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tlarge breath and pulse and thrill of hope and fear,<\/P><\/p>\n

Its taste
\n\t\t\t\tof pangs and tears and ecstasy,<\/p>\n

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

Its rapture’s poignant beat of
\n\t\t\t\tsudden bliss,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

Which crowd around
\n\t\t\t\tour hearts but find no window<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

And all
\n\t\t\t\tthat labours vainly to be born<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

Inaudible
\n\t\t\t\tto our deaf mortal ears<\/p>\n

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

The wide world-rhythms wove their
\n\t\t\t\tstupendous chant<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

Tuning the
\n\t\t\t\tfinite to infinity. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

The stammer of
\n\t\t\t\tthe primal ignorance; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tAnswer
\n\t\t\t\tto that inarticulate questioning, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere <\/B>
\n\t\t\t\tstooped with lightning neck and thunder’s wings <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tradiant hymn to the Inexpressible <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthe anthem of the superconscient light. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\twas revealed there none can here express; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tVision
\n\t\t\t\tand dream were fables spoken by truth<\/P><\/p>\n

Or<\/B> symbols more
\n\t\t\t\tveridical than fact,<\/p>\n

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

Or<\/B> were truths enforced by
\n\t\t\t\tsupernatural seals.<\/p>\n

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

Immortal eyes approached and looked in
\n\t\t\t\this,<\/p>\n

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

And beings of many kingdoms neared and spoke: <\/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\tever-living whom we name as dead<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

To utter the wisdom which
\n\t\t\t\texceeds all phrase: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tkings of evil and the kings of good,<\/P><\/p>\n

Appellants at the
\n\t\t\t\treason’s judgment seat,<\/p>\n

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t29<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tall believed themselves spokesmen of God: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tgods of light and titans of the dark<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

A bow-twang’s hum
\n\t\t\t\tof young experiment.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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


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

And danger brought a keen sweet
\n\t\t\t\ttang of joy: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

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

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

And counsels came couched in celestial
\n\t\t\t\tspeech,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

And sweet
\n\t\t\t\ttemptations stole from beauty’s realms<\/p>\n

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

And sudden ecstasies
\n\t\t\t\tfrom a world of bliss.<\/p>\n

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

It was a reign of wonder and
\n\t\t\t\tdelight,<\/p>\n

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

All now his bright clairaudience could receive,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Awakened to new
\n\t\t\t\tunearthly closenesses,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

Sight’s
\n\t\t\t\tlightnings leaped into the invisible.<\/p>\n

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

Ever his consciousness
\n\t\t\t\tand vision grew; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\ttook an ampler sweep, a loftier flight; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

Out of this world of signs
\n\t\t\t\tsuddenly he came<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tlooked beyond into a nameless vast.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

All tokens dropped our sense can
\n\t\t\t\trecognise; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tthe heart beat no more at body’s touch, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tthe eyes gazed no more on beauty’s shape, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\trare and lucent intervals of hush <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInto
\n\t\t\t\ta signless region he could soar <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPacked
\n\t\t\t\twith the deep contents of formlessness <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhere
\n\t\t\t\tworld was into a single being rapt <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tall was known by the light of identity <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t30<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tspirit was its own self-evidence. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tSupreme’s gaze looked out through human eyes <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tsaw all things and creatures as itself <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tknew all thought and word as its own voice.<\/P><\/p>\n

There unity is too
\n\t\t\t\tclose for search and clasp<\/p>\n

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

And love is a yearning of the One
\n\t\t\t\tfor the One, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tbeauty is a sweet difference of the Same <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\toneness is the soul of multitude. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tall the truths unite in a single truth, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tall ideas rejoin Reality.<\/P><\/p>\n

There knowing herself by her own
\n\t\t\t\ttermless self,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Sat
\n\t\t\t\tuncompanioned in the eternal Calm,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

There knowledge needs not words to embody
\n\t\t\t\tIdea; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tIdea
\n\t\t\t\tseeking a house in boundlessness,<\/P><\/p>\n

Weary of its homeless
\n\t\t\t\timmortality,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Whose single window’s clipped outlook on things<\/p>\n

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

Sees
\n\t\t\t\tonly a little arc of God’s vast sky. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tboundless with the boundless there consorts; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhile
\n\t\t\t\tthere, one can be wider than the world; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

His centre was no more in
\n\t\t\t\tearthly mind, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpower of seeing silence filled his limbs: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCaught
\n\t\t\t\tby a voiceless white epiphany<\/P><\/p>\n

Into a vision that surpasses
\n\t\t\t\tforms,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

He neared the
\n\t\t\t\tstill consciousness sustaining all.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Became a silent knowledge in the
\n\t\t\t\tsoul; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tstrength that only in action feels its truth<\/P><\/p>\n

Was lodged now in
\n\t\t\t\ta mute omnipotent peace.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

Restored
\n\t\t\t\tthe stress of Nature to God’s calm.<\/p>\n

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

A vast unanimity ended
\n\t\t\t\tlife’s debate.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t31<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

Ploughed by the seeking of the
\n\t\t\t\tworld’s desire,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The
\n\t\t\t\ttorment edging the dire force of lust<\/p>\n

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

That wakes kinetic in
\n\t\t\t\tearth’s dullard slime<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tsorrow by which Nature’s hunger is fed,<\/p>\n

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

The oestrus which
\n\t\t\t\tcreates with fire of pain,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ceased in a truth
\n\t\t\t\twhich lives in its own light. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsoul stood free, a witness and a king. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAbsorbed
\n\t\t\t\tno more, in the moment-ridden flux<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

Hurried from phenomenon to phenomenon,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

As if a story long written
\n\t\t\t\tbut acted now, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\this present he held his future and his past,<\/P> <\/p>\n

Felt in the
\n\t\t\t\tseconds the uncounted years<\/p>\n

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

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

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

An aspect of the unknown Reality<\/p>\n

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

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

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

This huge material universe
\n\t\t\t\tbecame<\/p>\n

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

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

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


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

Illumined that which never yet was
\n\t\t\t\tmade.<\/p>\n

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

Thought lay down in a mighty voicelessness; <\/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\ttoiling thinker widened and grew still,<\/P><\/p>\n

Wisdom transcendent
\n\t\t\t\ttouched his quivering heart: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsoul could sail beyond thought’s luminous bar, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

Through a last glimmer and drift of
\n\t\t\t\tvanishing stars<\/p>\n

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

The superconscient realms of motionless
\n\t\t\t\tpeace<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

There came not form or
\n\t\t\t\tany mounting voice; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tonly were Silence and the Absolute. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t32<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOut
\n\t\t\t\tof that stillness mind new-born arose <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\twoke to truths once inexpressible, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tforms appeared, dumbly significant, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tseeing thought, a self-revealing voice. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tknew the source from which his spirit came: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMovement
\n\t\t\t\twas married to the immobile Vast; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\t     Only
\n\t\t\t\ta while at first these heavenlier states,<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

The high and luminous
\n\t\t\t\ttension breaks too soon,<\/p>\n

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

The body’s stone stillness and the
\n\t\t\t\tlife’s hushed trance,<\/p>\n

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

The breathless might and calm of silent
\n\t\t\t\tmind,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The
\n\t\t\t\trestless nether members tire of peace; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tnostalgia of old little works and joys; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tneed to call back small familiar selves, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\ttread the accustomed and inferior way, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tneed to rest in a natural poise of fall, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\ta child who learns to walk can walk not long, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tReplace
\n\t\t\t\tthe titan will for ever to climb, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOn
\n\t\t\t\tthe heart’s altar dim the sacred fire. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\told pull of subconscious cords renews; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tdraws the unwilling spirit from the heights,<\/P><\/p>\n

Or a dull
\n\t\t\t\tgravitation drags us down<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For into the ignorant nature’s
\n\t\t\t\tgusty field,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tformless Power, the Self of eternal light<\/p>\n

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

Follow in the shadow
\n\t\t\t\tof the spirit’s descent; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\ttwin duality for ever one <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tChooses
\n\t\t\t\tits home mid the tumults of the sense. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tcomes unseen into our darker parts <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd,
\n\t\t\t\tcurtained by the darkness, does his work, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tsubtle and all-knowing guest and guide, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTill
\n\t\t\t\tthey too feel the need and will to change. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\there must learn to obey a higher law, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

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

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

Nature would ever labour unredeemed; <\/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\tearth would ever spin unhelped in space,<\/P><\/p>\n

And this immense
\n\t\t\t\tcreation’s purpose fail<\/p>\n

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

Till at last the frustrate universe
\n\t\t\t\tsank undone.<\/p>\n

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tgreater consciousness withdrew behind; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDim
\n\t\t\t\tand eclipsed, his human outside strove<\/P><\/p>\n

To feel again the old
\n\t\t\t\tsublimities,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\tAlways
\n\t\t\t\tthe power poured back like sudden rain,<\/P><\/p>\n

Or slowly in his
\n\t\t\t\tbreast a presence grew,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A dwelling on a higher
\n\t\t\t\tspirit plane; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tLight remained in him a longer space.<\/P><\/p>\n

In this
\n\t\t\t\toscillation between earth and heaven,<\/p>\n

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

In this ineffable
\n\t\t\t\tcommunion’s climb<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tglory of the integer of his soul. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

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

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

The Presence of the Eternal in the hours<\/p>\n

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

Widening
\n\t\t\t\tthe mortal mind’s half-look on things,<\/p>\n

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

Bridging the gap
\n\t\t\t\tbetween man’s force and Fate<\/p>\n

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

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

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

At last was won a firm spiritual poise, <\/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\tconstant lodging in the Eternal’s realm,<\/P><\/p>\n

A safety in the
\n\t\t\t\tSilence and the Ray, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tsettlement in the Immutable.<\/P><\/p>\n

His heights of being lived in the
\n\t\t\t\tstill Self; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tmind could rest on a supernal ground<\/P><\/p>\n

And look down on the
\n\t\t\t\tmagic and the play<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And the Everlasting puts on Time’s disguise.<\/p>\n

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

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

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


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\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tequal spirit gave its vast assent: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpoised serenity of tranquil strength,<\/P><\/p>\n

A wide unshaken look on
\n\t\t\t\tTime’s unrest<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Immobile it beheld the flux of
\n\t\t\t\tthings,<\/p>\n

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

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

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


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

Inspired by
\n\t\t\t\tsilence and the closed eyes’ sight<\/p>\n

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

His force could work with a
\n\t\t\t\tnew luminous art<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And the refusal of Inertia’s mass<\/p>\n

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

And the grey front
\n\t\t\t\tof the world’s Ignorance<\/p>\n

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

And nescient Matter and the huge
\n\t\t\t\terror of life.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

He
\n\t\t\t\tslowly chipped off the dark envelope,<\/p>\n

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

Line of defence of
\n\t\t\t\tNature’s ignorance,<\/p>\n

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

The illusion and mystery of the
\n\t\t\t\tInconscient<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A transfiguration in the mystic
\n\t\t\t\tdepths,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And fashion
\n\t\t\t\tthe world-shape in him anew,<\/p>\n

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

I God found in Nature, Nature
\n\t\t\t\tfulfilled in God.<\/p>\n

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\tLife
\n\t\t\t\tmade its home on the high tops of self; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsoul, mind, heart became a single sun; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOnly
\n\t\t\t\tlife’s lower reaches remained dim.<\/P><\/p>\n

But there too, in the
\n\t\t\t\tuncertain shadow of life,<\/p>\n

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

There was a labour and a fiery
\n\t\t\t\tbreath; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

Watched by the
\n\t\t\t\tinner Witness’s moveless peace.<\/p>\n

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

Even on the struggling Nature
\n\t\t\t\tleft below<\/p>\n

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

Strange
\n\t\t\t\triches sailed to him from the Unseen; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\t Page
\n\t\t\t\t35<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

Rivers poured down of bliss and
\n\t\t\t\tluminous force,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A dense veil was rent, a
\n\t\t\t\tmighty whisper heard; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tRepeated
\n\t\t\t\tin the privacy of his soul,<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/B> <\/p>\n

A wisdom-cry from rapt
\n\t\t\t\ttranscendences<\/p>\n

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

Sang on the mountains of an unseen world; <\/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\tvoices that an inner listening hears<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

And flame-wrapt outbursts of the immortal
\n\t\t\t\tWord<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Approached
\n\t\t\t\thim from the unreachable secrecy.<\/p>\n

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

An inspired Knowledge sat
\n\t\t\t\tenthroned within<\/p>\n

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

Whose seconds illumined more than reason’s
\n\t\t\t\tyears: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tictus of revealing lustre fell <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tif a pointing accent upon Truth, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tlike a sky-flare showing all the ground <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tswift intuitive discernment shone. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOne
\n\t\t\t\tglance could separate the true and false, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\traise its rapid torch-fire in the dark <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tcheck the claimants crowding through mind’s gates <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCovered
\n\t\t\t\tby the forged signatures of the gods, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDetect
\n\t\t\t\tthe magic bride in her disguise <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tscan the apparent face of thought and life. <\/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     Oft
\n\t\t\t\tinspiration with her lightning feet,<\/P><\/p>\n

A sudden messenger from
\n\t\t\t\tthe all-seeing tops,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A
\n\t\t\t\trapture of the thrilled undying Word<\/p>\n

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

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

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

A repetition of God’s first
\n\t\t\t\tdelight<\/p>\n

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

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

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

In a brief
\n\t\t\t\tmoment caught, a little space,<\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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\n\t\t\t\t36<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll-Knowledge
\n\t\t\t\tpacked into great wordless thoughts <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLodged
\n\t\t\t\tin the expectant stillness of his depths <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tcrystal of the ultimate Absolute, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tportion of the inexpressible Truth <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tRevealed
\n\t\t\t\tby silence to the silent soul. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tintense creatrix in his stillness wrought; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tpower fallen speechless grew more intimate; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tlooked upon the seen and the unforeseen, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUnguessed
\n\t\t\t\tdomains she made her native field. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll-vision
\n\t\t\t\tgathered into a single ray, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\twhen the eyes stare at an invisible point <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTill
\n\t\t\t\tthrough the intensity of one luminous spot <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tapocalypse of a world of images <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEnters
\n\t\t\t\tinto the kingdom of the seer. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tgreat nude arm of splendour suddenly rose; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\trent the gauze opaque of Nescience: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tlifted finger’s keen unthinkable tip<\/P><\/p>\n

Bared with a stab of
\n\t\t\t\tflame the closed -Beyond.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The high black wall hiding
\n\t\t\t\tsuperconscience,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And plundered the Unknowable’s vast estate.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

A sheaf-binder of
\n\t\t\t\tinfinite experience,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And her magic methods wrapt in a thousand veils; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tshe gathered the lost secrets dropped by Time <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe dust and crannies of his mounting route <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMid
\n\t\t\t\told forsaken dreams of hastening Mind <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tburied remnants of forgotten space. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\ttraveller between summit and abyss <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tjoined the distant ends, the viewless deeps., <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tstreaked along the roads of Heaven and Hell <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPursuing
\n\t\t\t\tall knowledge like a questing hound. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\treporter and scribe of hidden wisdom talk, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tshining minutes of celestial speech, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPassed
\n\t\t\t\tthrough the masked office of the occult mind, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTransmitting
\n\t\t\t\tgave to prophet and to seer <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t37<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tinspired body of the mystic Truth.<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

Above
\n\t\t\t\tthe reason’s brilliant slender curve,<\/p>\n

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

Released like radiant
\n\t\t\t\tair dimming a moon,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Or
\n\t\t\t\tlimit swam into his spirit’s ken.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Calling to infinite discovery; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tTimeless
\n\t\t\t\tdomains of joy and absolute power<\/P><\/p>\n

Stretched out
\n\t\t\t\tsurrounded by the eternal hush; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tways that lead to endless happiness <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tRan
\n\t\t\t\tlike dream-smiles through meditating vasts: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDisclosed
\n\t\t\t\tstood up in a gold moment’s blaze <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhite
\n\t\t\t\tsun-steppes in the pathless Infinite. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAlong
\n\t\t\t\ta naked curve in bourneless Self <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tpoints that run through the closed heart of things <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShadowed
\n\t\t\t\tthe indeterminable line<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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


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

Coercing the freedom of
\n\t\t\t\tinfinity<\/p>\n

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

With the stark array of Nature’s symbol facts<\/p>\n

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tlife’s incessant signals of event,<\/p>\n

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

Transmuted chance
\n\t\t\t\trecurrences into laws,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Out
\n\t\t\t\tof the rich wonders and the intricate whorls<\/p>\n

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

Of the spirit’s
\n\t\t\t\tdance with Matter as its mask<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Its logic of infinite
\n\t\t\t\tintelligence,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

A glimpse
\n\t\t\t\twas caught of things for ever unknown<\/p>\n

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

The letters stood out of
\n\t\t\t\tthe unmoving Word.<\/p>\n

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

In the immutable nameless Origin<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The trail of the Ideas
\n\t\t\t\tthat made the world,<\/p>\n

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

And, sown in the black earth of Nature’s
\n\t\t\t\ttrance,<\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t38<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tlooked out from the shadow of the Unknown <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tbodiless Namelessness that saw God born <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\ttries to gain from the mortal’s mind and soul <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tdeathless body and a divine name. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\timmobile lips, the great surreal wings, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tvisage masked by superconscient Sleep, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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

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

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

The original Desire born in
\n\t\t\t\tthe Void<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tfeet that run behind a fleeting fate, <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tineffable meaning of the endless dream.<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

The radiant world of the everlasting
\n\t\t\t\tTruth<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Above
\n\t\t\t\tthe golden Overmind’s shimmering ridge.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The smile of love that sanctions the
\n\t\t\t\tlong game,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Of
\n\t\t\t\tWisdom suckling the child-laughter of Chance,<\/p>\n

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

Silence the
\n\t\t\t\tnurse of the Almighty’s power,<\/p>\n

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

The omniscient hush, womb of
\n\t\t\t\tthe immortal Word,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

The inspiring
\n\t\t\t\tgoddess entered a mortal’s breast,<\/p>\n

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

Made there her study of
\n\t\t\t\tdivining thought<\/p>\n

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

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

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

And sat
\n\t\t\t\tupon the tripod seat of mind: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\twas made wide above, all lit below. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tdarkness’ core she dug out wells of light, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOn
\n\t\t\t\tthe undiscovered depths imposed a form, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLent
\n\t\t\t\ta vibrant cry to the unuttered vasts, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthrough great shoreless, voiceless, starless breadths <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBore
\n\t\t\t\tearthward fragments of revealing thought <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHewn
\n\t\t\t\tfrom the silence of the Ineffable. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tvoice in the heart uttered the unspoken Name,<\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t39<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tdream of<\/SPAN> seeking thought wandering through space<\/P><\/p>\n

Entered
\n\t\t\t\tthe invisible and forbidden house: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\ttreasure was found of a supernal Day.<\/P><\/p>\n

In the deep
\n\t\t\t\tsubconscient glowed her jewel-lamp; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tLifted,
\n\t\t\t\tit showed the riches of the Cave<\/P><\/p>\n

Where, by the miser
\n\t\t\t\ttraffickers of sense<\/p>\n

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

Unused, guarded beneath Night’s dragon
\n\t\t\t\tpaws,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

A darkness
\n\t\t\t\tcarrying morning in its breast<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In a splendid
\n\t\t\t\textravagance of the waste of God<\/p>\n

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

Dropped carelessly in
\n\t\t\t\tcreation’s spendthrift work,<\/p>\n

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

Left in the chantiers of the
\n\t\t\t\tbottomless world<\/p>\n

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

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

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tgolden shekels of the Eternal lie,<\/p>\n

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

Hoarded from touch and view
\n\t\t\t\tand thought’s desire,<\/p>\n

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

Locked in blind antres of the ignorant
\n\t\t\t\tflood<\/p>\n

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

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

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tvision lightened on the viewless heights,<\/p>\n

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

A wisdom illumined
\n\t\t\t\tfrom the voiceless depths: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

A grand reversal of the
\n\t\t\t\tNight and Day; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\tthe world’s values changed heightening life’s aim; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\twiser word, a larger thought came in <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThan
\n\t\t\t\twhat the slow labour of human mind can bring, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tsecret sense awoke that could perceive <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tPresence and a Greatness everywhere. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tuniverse was not now this senseless whirl <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBorne
\n\t\t\t\tround inert on an immense machine; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tcast away its grandiose lifeless front,<\/P><\/p>\n

A mechanism no more or
\n\t\t\t\twork of Chance,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tspirit hid in forces and in forms<\/p>\n

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

Was the spectator of the
\n\t\t\t\tmobile scene: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

Let in a glow of the
\n\t\t\t\tUnmanifest: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tformless Everlasting moved in it <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t40<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSeeking
\n\t\t\t\tits own perfect form in souls and things.<\/P><\/p>\n

Life kept no more a
\n\t\t\t\tdull and meaningless shape.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

He saw the labour of a godhead’s birth: <\/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\tsecret knowledge masked as Ignorance; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFate
\n\t\t\t\tcovered with unseen necessity<\/P><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tAll-Blissful sat unknown within the heart; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

A glad
\n\t\t\t\tcommunion tinged the passing hours; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

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

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

A heavenly impetus quickened all his
\n\t\t\t\tbreast; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\ttrudge of time changed to a splendid march; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tdivine Dwarf towered to unconquered worlds, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEarth
\n\t\t\t\tgrew too narrow for his victory. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOnce
\n\t\t\t\tonly registering the heavy tread <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\ta blind Power on human littleness, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLife
\n\t\t\t\tnow became a sure approach to God, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tExistence
\n\t\t\t\ta divine experiment <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tcosmos the soul’s opportunity. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tworld was a conception and a birth <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\tSpirit in Matter into living forms, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tNature bore the Immortal in her womb, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\tshe might climb through him to eternal life. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tbeing lay down in bright immobile peace <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tbathed in wells of pure spiritual light; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\twandered in wide fields of wisdom-self <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLit
\n\t\t\t\tby the rays of an everlasting sun. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\this body’s subtle self within <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCould
\n\t\t\t\traise the earthly parts towards higher things <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tfeel on it the breath of heavenlier air. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAlready
\n\t\t\t\tit journeyed towards divinity: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUpbuoyed
\n\t\t\t\tupon winged winds of rapid joy,<\/P><\/p>\n

Upheld to a Light it could not
\n\t\t\t\talways hold,<\/p>\n

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

It left mind’s distance from the Truth
\n\t\t\t\tsupreme<\/p>\n

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

And lost life’s incapacity for bliss.<\/p>\n

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

All now
\n\t\t\t\tsuppressed in us began to emerge. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t41<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


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

His mind and body’s first
\n\t\t\t\tspiritual change. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

A new
\n\t\t\t\tworld-knowledge broadened from within: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

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

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

Awakened to the lines that
\n\t\t\t\tNature hides,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

He
\n\t\t\t\tgrew one with a covert universe.<\/p>\n

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

His grasp surprised her
\n\t\t\t\tmightiest energies’ springs; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


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

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

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

His wide eyes bodied
\n\t\t\t\tviewless entities,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

Time’s secrets were
\n\t\t\t\tto him an oft-read book; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\trecords of the future and the past<\/P><\/p>\n

Outlined their excerpts on
\n\t\t\t\tthe etheric page.<\/p>\n

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

One and harmonious by the Maker’s skill,<\/p>\n

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

The
\n\t\t\t\thuman in him paced with the divine.<\/p>\n

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

His acts betrayed not the
\n\t\t\t\tinterior flame.<\/p>\n

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

This forged the greatness of his front to
\n\t\t\t\tearth.<\/p>\n

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

A genius heightened in his body’s cells<\/p>\n

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

That knew
\n\t\t\t\tthe meaning of his fate-hedged works<\/p>\n

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

Akin to the march of
\n\t\t\t\tunaccomplished Powers<\/p>\n

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

Beyond life’s arc in spirit’s
\n\t\t\t\timmensities.<\/p>\n

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

Apart he lived in his mind’s solitude,<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tdemigod shaping the lives of men: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tOne
\n\t\t\t\tsoul’s ambition lifted up the race; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tPower worked, but none knew whence it came.<\/P><\/p>\n

The universal
\n\t\t\t\tstrengths were linked with his; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tFeeling
\n\t\t\t\tearth’s smallness with their boundless breadths,.<\/P><\/p>\n

He drew the
\n\t\t\t\tenergies that transmute an age.<\/p>\n

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

Immeasurable by the common
\n\t\t\t\tlook,<\/p>\n

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

He made great dreams a mould for coming things<\/p>\n

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tcast his deeds like bronze to front the years. <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\twalk through Time outstripped the human stride.<\/P><\/p>\n

Lonely his
\n\t\t\t\tdays and splendid like the sun’s.<\/FONT><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t


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