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\n\t\t\t\tBOOK TWO<\/B><\/I><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe Book of the Traveller of the Worlds<\/B><\/I><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tCANTO ONE<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/B>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tTHE WORLD-STAIR<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/B>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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 <\/P>
\n\t\t\t<\/TD>
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\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tLONE he moved watched by the infinity<\/P><\/p>\n

Around him and the
\n\t\t\t\tUnknowable above.<\/p>\n

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

All could be seen that shuns the mortal
\n\t\t\t\teye,<\/p>\n

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

All could be known the mind has never grasped,<\/p>\n

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

All
\n\t\t\t\tcould be done no mortal will can dare.<\/p>\n

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

A limitless movement
\n\t\t\t\tfilled a limitless peace.<\/p>\n

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

In a profound existence beyond
\n\t\t\t\tearth’s<\/p>\n

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

Parent or kin to our ideas and dreams<\/p>\n

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

Where Space
\n\t\t\t\tis a vast experiment of the soul,<\/p>\n

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

In a deep oneness of all
\n\t\t\t\tthings that are,<\/p>\n

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

The universe of the Unknown arose.<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tself-creation without end or pause<\/p>\n

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

Revealed the grandeurs of
\n\t\t\t\tthe Infinite: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tflung into the hazards of its play <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tmillion moods, a myriad energies, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tworld-shapes that are fancies of its Truth <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tthe formulas of the freedom of its Force. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tpoured into the Ever-stable’s flux <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tbacchic rapture and revel of Ideas, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tpassion and motion of everlastingness. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\trose unborn into the Unchanging’s surge <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tThoughts
\n\t\t\t\tthat abide in their deathless consequence, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWords
\n\t\t\t\tthat immortal last though fallen mute, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tActs
\n\t\t\t\tthat brought out from Silence its dumb sense, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLines
\n\t\t\t\tthat convey the inexpressible. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tEternal’s stillness saw in unmoved joy <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tuniversal Power at work display <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tplots of pain and dramas of delight <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\twonder and beauty of her will to be. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tAll,
\n\t\t\t\teven pain, was the soul’s pleasure here, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t87<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tHere
\n\t\t\t\tall experience was a single plan,<\/P><\/p>\n

The thousandfold expression
\n\t\t\t\tof the One.<\/p>\n

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

All came at once into his single view; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
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\n\t\t\t\tNothing
\n\t\t\t\tescaped his vast intuitive sight,<\/P><\/p>\n

Nothing drew near he could
\n\t\t\t\tnot feel as kin: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\twas one spirit with that immensity.<\/P><\/p>\n

Images in a supernal
\n\t\t\t\tconsciousness<\/p>\n

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

Embodying the Unborn who never dies,<\/p>\n

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tstructured visions of the cosmic Self<\/p>\n

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

Alive with the touch of
\n\t\t\t\tbeing’s eternity<\/p>\n

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

Looked at him like form-bound spiritual
\n\t\t\t\tthoughts<\/p>\n

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

Figuring the movements of the Ineffable.<\/p>\n

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

Aspects
\n\t\t\t\tof being donned world-outline; forms<\/p>\n

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

That open moving doors on
\n\t\t\t\tthings divine,<\/p>\n

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

Became familiar to his hourly sight; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThe symbols of
\n\t\t\t\tthe Spirit’s reality,<\/P><\/p>\n

The living bodies of the Bodiless<\/p>\n

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

Grew
\n\t\t\t\tnear to him, his daily associates.<\/p>\n

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

The exhaustless seeings of
\n\t\t\t\tthe unsleeping Mind,<\/p>\n

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

Letterings of its contact with the
\n\t\t\t\tinvisible,<\/p>\n

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

Surrounded him with countless pointing signs; <\/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 of a thousand realms of Life<\/P><\/p>\n

Missioned to him her
\n\t\t\t\tmighty messages.<\/p>\n

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

The heaven-hints that invade our earthly
\n\t\t\t\tlives,<\/p>\n

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

The dire imaginations dreamed by Hell,<\/p>\n

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

Which if
\n\t\t\t\tenacted and experienced here<\/p>\n

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

Our dulled capacity soon would
\n\t\t\t\tcease to feel<\/p>\n

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

Or our mortal frailty could not long
\n\t\t\t\tendure,<\/p>\n

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

Were set in their sublime proportions there.<\/p>\n

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

There
\n\t\t\t\tlived out in their self-born atmosphere,<\/p>\n

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

They resumed their
\n\t\t\t\ttopless pitch and native power; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tTheir
\n\t\t\t\tfortifying stress upon the soul <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBit
\n\t\t\t\tdeep into the ground of consciousness <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tpassion and purity of their extremes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tabsoluteness of their single cry <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd the
\n\t\t\t\tsovereign sweetness or violent, poetry <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\ttheir beautiful or terrible delight. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll thought can
\n\t\t\t\tknow or widest sight perceive <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd all that
\n\t\t\t\tthought and sight can never know, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll things
\n\t\t\t\toccult and rare, remote and strange<\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t88<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWere
\n\t\t\t\tnear to heart’s contact, felt by spirit-sense.<\/P><\/p>\n

Asking for
\n\t\t\t\tentry at his nature’s gates<\/p>\n

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

They crowded the widened spaces of
\n\t\t\t\this mind,<\/p>\n

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

His self-discovery’s flaming witnesses,<\/p>\n

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

Offering
\n\t\t\t\ttheir marvel and their multitude.<\/p>\n

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

These now became new
\n\t\t\t\tportions of himself,<\/p>\n

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

The figures of his spirit’s greater
\n\t\t\t\tlife,<\/p>\n

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

The moving scenery of his large time-walk<\/p>\n

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

Or the
\n\t\t\t\tembroidered tissue of his sense: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThese
\n\t\t\t\ttook the place of intimate human things <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tmoved as close companions of his thoughts, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\twere his soul’s natural environment. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTireless
\n\t\t\t\tthe heart’s adventure of delight, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEndless
\n\t\t\t\tthe kingdoms of the Spirit’s bliss, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUnnumbered
\n\t\t\t\ttones struck from one harmony’s strings, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEach
\n\t\t\t\tto its wide-winged universal poise, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tfathomless feeling of the All in one, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBrought
\n\t\t\t\tnotes of some perfection yet unseen, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tsingle retreat into Truth’s secrecies, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\thappy sidelight on the Infinite. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\twas found there the Unique had dreamed and made <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTinging
\n\t\t\t\twith ceaseless rapture and surprise <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tan opulent beauty of passionate difference <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\trecurring beat that moments God in Time. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOnly
\n\t\t\t\twas missing the sole timeless Word <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\tcarries eternity in its lonely sound, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tIdea self-luminous key to all ideas, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tinteger of the Spirit’s perfect sum <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\tequates the unequal All to the equal One, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tsingle sign interpreting every sign, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tabsolute index to the Absolute. <\/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     There walled
\n\t\t\t\tapart by its own innerness<\/P><\/p>\n

In a mystical barrage of dynamic
\n\t\t\t\tlight<\/p>\n

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

He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile<\/p>\n

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

Erect
\n\t\t\t\tlike a mountain chariot of the Gods<\/p>\n

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

Motionless under an
\n\t\t\t\tinscrutable sky.<\/p>\n

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

As if from Matter’s plinth and viewless
\n\t\t\t\tbase<\/p>\n

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

To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds<\/p>\n

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

Climbing
\n\t\t\t\twith foam-maned waves to the Supreme <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t89<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAscended
\n\t\t\t\ttowards breadths immeasurable; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\thoped to soar into the Ineffable’s reign: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\thundred levels raised it to the Unknown.<\/P><\/p>\n

So it towered up to
\n\t\t\t\theights intangible<\/p>\n

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

And disappeared in the hushed conscious
\n\t\t\t\tVast<\/p>\n

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

As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven<\/p>\n

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

Built by
\n\t\t\t\tthe aspiring soul of man to live<\/p>\n

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

Near to his dream of the
\n\t\t\t\tInvisible.<\/p>\n

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

Infinity calls to it as it dreams and climbs,<\/p>\n

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

Its
\n\t\t\t\tspire touches the apex of the world; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tMounting
\n\t\t\t\tinto great voiceless stillnesses<\/P><\/p>\n

It marries the earth to
\n\t\t\t\tscreened eternities.<\/p>\n

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

Amid the many systems of the One<\/p>\n

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

Made
\n\t\t\t\tby an interpreting creative joy<\/p>\n

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

Alone it points us to our
\n\t\t\t\tjourney back<\/p>\n

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

Out of our long self-loss in Nature’s deeps; <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tPlanted
\n\t\t\t\ton earth it holds in it all realms: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tis a brief compendium of the Vast.<\/P><\/p>\n

This was the single stair
\n\t\t\t\tto being’s goal.<\/p>\n

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

A summary of the stages of the spirit,<\/p>\n

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

Its
\n\t\t\t\tcopy of the cosmic hierarchies<\/p>\n

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

Refashioned in our secret air
\n\t\t\t\tof self<\/p>\n

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

A subtle pattern of the universe.<\/p>\n

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

It is within;
\n\t\t\t\tbelow, without, above.<\/p>\n

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

Acting upon this visible Nature’s
\n\t\t\t\tscheme<\/p>\n

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

It wakens our earth-matter’s heavy doze<\/p>\n

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

To think and
\n\t\t\t\tfeel and to react to joy; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tmodels in us our diviner parts, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLifts
\n\t\t\t\tmortal mind into a greater air, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMakes
\n\t\t\t\tyearn this life of flesh to intangible aims, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLinks
\n\t\t\t\tthe body’s death with immortality’s call: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOut
\n\t\t\t\tof the swoon of the Inconsdence<\/P><\/p>\n

It labours towards a
\n\t\t\t\tsuperconscient Light.<\/p>\n

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

If earth were all and this were not in
\n\t\t\t\ther,<\/p>\n

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

Thought could not be nor life-delight’s response: <\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tOnly
\n\t\t\t\tmaterial forms could then be her guests <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDriven
\n\t\t\t\tby an inanimate world-force. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEarth
\n\t\t\t\tby this golden superfluity <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBore
\n\t\t\t\tthinking man and more than man shall bear; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThis
\n\t\t\t\thigher scheme of being is our cause <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t90<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tholds the key to our ascending fate; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tcalls out of our dense mortality <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tconscious spirit nursed in Matter’s house. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tliving symbol of these conscious planes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tinfluences and godheads of the unseen, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tunthought logic of Reality’s acts <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tArisen
\n\t\t\t\tfrom the unspoken truth in things, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHave
\n\t\t\t\tfixed our inner life’s slow-scaled degrees. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tsteps are paces of the soul’s return <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFrom
\n\t\t\t\tthe deep adventure of material birth, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tladder of delivering ascent <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\trungs that Nature climbs to deity. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOnce
\n\t\t\t\tin the vigil of a deathless gaze <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThese
\n\t\t\t\tgrades had marked her giant downward plunge, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\twide and prone leap of a godhead’s fall. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tlife is a holocaust of the Supreme. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tgreat World-Mother by her sacrifice <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHas
\n\t\t\t\tmade her soul the body of our state, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAccepting
\n\t\t\t\tsorrow and unconsciousness <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tDivinity’s
\n\t\t\t\tlapse from its own splendours wove <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tmany-patterned ground of all we are. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tidol of self is our mortality. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\tearth is a fragment and a residue; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tpower is packed with the stuff of greater worlds <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tsteeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tatavism of higher births is hers,<\/P><\/p>\n

Her sleep is stirred by
\n\t\t\t\ttheir buried memories<\/p>\n

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

Recalling the lost spheres from which
\n\t\t\t\tthey fell.<\/p>\n

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

Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move; <\/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 partners of her greater growing fate<\/P><\/p>\n

And her return to
\n\t\t\t\timmortality; <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tconsent to share her doom of birth and death; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tkindle partial gleams of the All and drive <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\tblind laborious spirit to compose <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA.
\n\t\t\t\tmeagre image of the mighty Whole. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tcalm and luminous Intimacy within <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tApproves
\n\t\t\t\ther work and guides the unseeing Power. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tvast design accepts a puny start. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tattempt, a drawing half-done is the world’s life; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tlines doubt their concealed significance, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 91<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tcurves join not their high-intended dose.<\/P><\/p>\n

Yet some first image
\n\t\t\t\tof greatness trembles there,<\/p>\n

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

And when the ambiguous crowded
\n\t\t\t\tparts have met<\/p>\n

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

The many-toned unity to which they moved,<\/p>\n

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tArtist’s joy shall laugh at reason’s rules,<\/p>\n

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

The divine
\n\t\t\t\tintention suddenly shall be seen,<\/p>\n

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

The end vindicate
\n\t\t\t\tintuition’s sure technique.<\/p>\n

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

A graph shall be of many meeting
\n\t\t\t\tworlds,<\/p>\n

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

A cube and union crystal of the gods; <\/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\tMind shall think behind Nature’s mindless mask,<\/P><\/p>\n

A conscious
\n\t\t\t\tVast fill the old dumb brute Space.<\/p>\n

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

This faint and fluid
\n\t\t\t\tsketch of soul called man<\/p>\n

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

Shall stand out on the background of
\n\t\t\t\tlong Time<\/p>\n

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

A glowing epitome of eternity,<\/p>\n

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

A little point
\n\t\t\t\treveal the infinitudes.<\/p>\n

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

A Mystery’s process is the
\n\t\t\t\tuniverse.<\/p>\n

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

At first was laid a strange anomalous base,<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tvoid, a cipher of some secret Whole,<\/p>\n

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

Where zero held infinity
\n\t\t\t\tin its sum<\/p>\n

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

And All and Nothing were a single term,<\/p>\n

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

An
\n\t\t\t\teternal negative, a matrix Nought: <\/FONT><\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tInto
\n\t\t\t\tits forms the Child is ever born<\/P><\/p>\n

Who lives for ever in the
\n\t\t\t\tvasts of God.<\/p>\n

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

A slow reversal’s movement then took place: <\/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\tgas belched out from some invisible Fire, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\tits dense rings were formed these million stars; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUpon
\n\t\t\t\tearth’s new-born soil God’s tread was heard. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAcross the thick
\n\t\t\t\tsmoke of earth’s ignorance <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tMind began to see and look at forms <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd groped for
\n\t\t\t\tknowledge in the nescient Night: <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCaught
\n\t\t\t\tin a blind stone-grip Force worked its plan<\/P><\/p>\n

And made in sleep
\n\t\t\t\tthis huge mechanical world,<\/p>\n

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

That Matter might grow conscious
\n\t\t\t\tof its soul<\/p>\n

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

And like a busy midwife the life-power<\/p>\n

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

Deliver
\n\t\t\t\tthe zero carrier of the All.<\/p>\n

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

Because eternal eyes turned on
\n\t\t\t\tearth’s gulfs<\/p>\n

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

The lucent clarity of a pure regard<\/p>\n

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

And saw a
\n\t\t\t\tshadow of the Unknowable<\/p>\n

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

Mirrored in the Inconscient’s
\n\t\t\t\tboundless sleep,<\/p>\n

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

Creation’s search for self began its stir.\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t92<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA spirit dreamed in the crude
\n\t\t\t\tcosmic whirl, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMind flowed unknowing in the
\n\t\t\t\tsap of life <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd Matter’s breasts suckled
\n\t\t\t\tthe divine Idea <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA miracle of the Absolute was
\n\t\t\t\tborn, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInfinity put on a finite
\n\t\t\t\tsoul, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll ocean lived within a
\n\t\t\t\twandering drop, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA time-made body housed the
\n\t\t\t\tIllimitable. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo live this Mystery out our
\n\t\t\t\tsouls came here. <\/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      A Seer within who knows
\n\t\t\t\tthe ordered plan <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tConcealed behind our
\n\t\t\t\tmomentary steps, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInspires our ascent to
\n\t\t\t\tviewless heights <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs once the abysmal leap to
\n\t\t\t\tbirth and life. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis call had reached the
\n\t\t\t\tTraveller in Time. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tApart in an unfathomed
\n\t\t\t\tloneliness, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe travelled in his mute and
\n\t\t\t\tsingle strength <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBearing the burden of the
\n\t\t\t\tworld’s desire. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA formless Stillness called,
\n\t\t\t\ta nameless Light. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAbove him was the white
\n\t\t\t\timmobile Ray, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAround him the eternal
\n\t\t\t\tSilences. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNo term was fixed to the
\n\t\t\t\thigh-pitched attempt; <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWorld after world disclosed
\n\t\t\t\tits guarded powers, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHeaven after heaven its deep
\n\t\t\t\tbeatitudes, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBut still the invisible
\n\t\t\t\tMagnet drew his soul. <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA figure sole on Nature’s
\n\t\t\t\tgiant stair, <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe mounted towards an
\n\t\t\t\tindiscernible end <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOn the bare summit of created
\n\t\t\t\tthings. <\/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 END
\n\t\t\t\tOF CANTO ONE <\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 93<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t<\/TD>
\n\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t

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