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Canto Five<\/i> <\/p>\n

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\n The Yoga of the
\nKing:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n The Yoga of the
\nSpirit’s Freedom and Greatness<\/font><\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

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This
\nknowledge first he had of time-born men.<\/p>\n

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

That
\nhangs between our thought and absolute sight,<\/p>\n

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

Near
\nto the well of vision in the soul,<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthe sunlit space where all is for ever known.<\/p>\n

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

Avid
\nof the naked real’s<\/span> single
\nshock<\/p>\n

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

And
\ncast away the yoke of Matter’s law.<\/p>\n

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

When
\nlife had stopped its beats, death broke not in;<\/p>\n

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

Thus
\ncould he step into that magic place<\/p>\n

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

Lifted
\nfor a moment from mind’s laboured works<\/p>\n

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

All
\nthat the Gods have learned is there self-known.<\/p>\n

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

Are
\nkept the record graphs of the cosmic scribe,<\/p>\n

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

There
\nis the Book of Being’s index page,<\/p>\n

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

Are
\nthere; the rhythms and metres of the stars<\/p>\n

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

The
\nsymbol powers of number and of form,<\/p>\n

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

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And
\nNature’s correspondence with the soul<\/p>\n

Are
\nwritten in the mystic heart of life.<\/p>\n

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

He
\ncould recover the luminous marginal notes<\/p>\n

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

Rescue
\nthe preamble and the saving clause<\/p>\n

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

That
\nrises from material Nature’s sleep<\/p>\n

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

He
\ncould re-read now and interpret new<\/p>\n

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

Resolve
\nits oracle and its paradox,<\/p>\n

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

The
\ndeep oxymoron of its truth’s repliques<\/span>,<\/p>\n

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

Its
\nhard conditions for the mighty work,\u2014<\/p>\n

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

Only
\nher warlock
\n wisecraft<\/span> could
\nenforce,<\/p>\n

Its
\nlaw of opposition of the Gods,<\/p>\n

Its
\nlist of inseparable contraries.<\/p>\n

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

Exploiting
\nfor creation’s joy and pain<\/p>\n

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

Accepts
\nindomitably to execute<\/p>\n

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

The
\nwill to live under a reign of death,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nworks out through the appearance of a soul<\/p>\n

By a
\nmiraculous birth in plasm<\/span> and
\ngas<\/p>\n

The
\nmystery of God’s covenant with the Night.<\/p>\n

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

The Eternal’s<\/span> promise to his labouring<\/span>
\nForce<\/p>\n

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

The
\ncry of birth into mortality<\/p>\n

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

Out
\nof the depths the world’s buried secret rose; <\/p>\n

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

In
\nthe locked archives of the spirit’s crypt,<\/p>\n

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

Of
\nWisdom on the dim Power’s hooded work<\/p>\n

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

A
\nsleeping deity opened deathless eyes:<\/p>\n

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

Knew
\nMatter pregnant with spiritual sense,<\/p>\n

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

Life
\nits gestation of the Golden Child.<\/p>\n

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

Interpreting
\nthe universe by soul signs<\/p>\n

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

The
\nriddle grew plain and lost its catch obscure.<\/p>\n

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

A
\npurpose mingled with the whims of Time,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nFate revealed a chain of seeing will;<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthe Void he saw throned the Omniscience supreme.<\/p>\n

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A Will, a
\nhope immense now seized his heart,<\/p>\n

And
\nto discern the superhuman’s<\/span>
\nform<\/p>\n

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

Aspiring
\nto bring down a greater world.<\/p>\n

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

A
\nbrighter heavenlier sun must soon illume<\/p>\n

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

The
\ninfant soul in its small nursery school<\/p>\n

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

Outgrow
\nits early grammar of intellect<\/p>\n

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

Its
\nearthly dialect to God-language change,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nlearn the logic of the Infinite.<\/p>\n

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

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The
\nbody illumined with the indwelling God,<\/p>\n

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

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

As
\nthrough a mist a sovereign peak is seen,<\/p>\n

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

Exiled
\nin a fragmented universe<\/p>\n

Amid
\nhalf-semblances of divine things.<\/p>\n

These
\nnow could serve no more his regal turn:<\/p>\n

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

A
\nmiser of the scanty bargain made<\/p>\n

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

And
\nthe compassionate Infinitudes.<\/p>\n

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

A
\nwideness discontented with its frame<\/p>\n

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

The
\nharsh contract spurned and the diminished lease.<\/p>\n

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

Our
\nbase’s Matter seems alone complete,<\/p>\n

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

Or
\nall seems a misfit of half ideas,<\/p>\n

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

A
\nhurried imperfect glimpse of heavenly things,<\/p>\n

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

Here
\nchaos sorts itself into a world,<\/p>\n

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

Apings<\/span> of knowledge, unfinished
\narcs of power,<\/p>\n

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

Love’s
\nbroken reflexes of unity<\/p>\n

Swim,
\nfragment
\n mirrorings<\/span> of a
\nfloating sun.<\/p>\n

A
\npacked assemblage of crude tentative lives<\/p>\n

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

There
\nis no perfect answer to our hopes;<\/p>\n

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

Thought
\nclimbs in vain and brings a borrowed light,<\/p>\n

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

Our
\nhearts clutch at a forfeited heavenly bliss. <\/p>\n

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

There
\nare thrills of the flesh, but not the soul’s desire.<\/p>\n

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

Is a
\nmimicry of ungrasped<\/span>
\nbeatitudes,<\/p>\n

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

A
\nwounded happiness that cannot live,<\/p>\n

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

Thrown
\nby the World-Power to her body-slave,<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthe seraglios of Ignorance.<\/p>\n

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

An
\nold disvalued credit in Time’s bank,<\/p>\n

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

An
\ninconsequence dogs every effort made,<\/p>\n

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

In
\neach success a seed of failure lurks.<\/p>\n

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

The
\nincertitude of man’s proud confident thought,<\/p>\n

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

A
\nthinking being in an unthinking world,<\/p>\n

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

He
\nis a smallness trying to be great,<\/p>\n

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

His
\nlife a story too common to be told,<\/p>\n

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

His
\nconsciousness a torch lit to be quenched,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nyet a greater destiny may be his,<\/p>\n

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

He
\ncan re-create himself and all around<\/p>\n

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

He,
\nignorant, is the Knower beyond Time,<\/p>\n

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

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His soul
\nretired from all that he had done.<\/p>\n

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

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Forsaken
\nwheeled the circle of the days;<\/p>\n

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

The
\nSilence was his sole companion left.<\/p>\n

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

A
\nfigure in the ineffable Witness’ shrine<\/p>\n

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

Under
\nits arches dim with infinity<\/p>\n

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

A
\ncall was on him from intangible heights;<\/p>\n

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

He
\ndwelt in the wideness of the Eternal’s<\/span>
\nreign.<\/p>\n

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

His
\nboundless thought was neighbour<\/span>
\nto cosmic sight:<\/p>\n

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

A
\ngolden influx flowed through heart and brain;<\/p>\n

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

A
\ncurrent from eternal seas of Bliss;<\/p>\n

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

Aware
\nof his occult omnipotent Source,<\/p>\n

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

A
\nliving centre of the Illimitable<\/p>\n

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

He
\nturned to his immense spiritual fate.<\/p>\n

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

A
\npicture lost in far and fading streaks,<\/p>\n

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

He
\nclimbed to meet the infinite more above.<\/p>\n

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

An
\narrow leaping through eternity<\/p>\n

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

A
\nray returning to its parent sun.<\/p>\n

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

The
\nblack Inconscient swung its dragon tail<\/p>\n

Lashing
\na slumberous<\/span> Infinite by
\nits force<\/p>\n

Into
\nthe deep obscurities of form:<\/p>\n

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

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One-pointed
\nto the immaculate Delight,<\/p>\n

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

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

To a
\nfew is given that godlike rare release.<\/p>\n

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

Engrossed
\nin the external world’s design,<\/p>\n

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

And
\ndriven by a pointing hand of Light<\/p>\n

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

A
\npilgrim of the everlasting Truth,<\/p>\n

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

He
\nhas turned from the voices of the narrow realm<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthe hushed precincts of a vaster plan<\/p>\n

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

Or
\nlistens following a bodiless Guide<\/p>\n

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

All
\nthe deep cosmic murmur falling still,<\/p>\n

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

His
\nsoul left naked to the timeless One.<\/p>\n

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

Thought
\nand its shadowy idols disappear,<\/p>\n

The
\nmoulds of form and person are undone.<\/p>\n

The
\nineffable Wideness knows him for its own.<\/p>\n

A
\nlone forerunner of the Godward<\/span>
\nearth,<\/p>\n

Among
\nthe symbols of yet unshaped things<\/p>\n

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

He
\njourneys to meet the Incommunicable,<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthe eternal courts of Solitude.<\/p>\n

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

His
\nspirit mingles with Eternity’s heart<\/p>\n

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

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In a divine
\nretreat from mortal thought,<\/p>\n

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

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His
\nbeing towered into pathless heights,<\/p>\n

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

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

A
\nstrong Descent leaped down. A Might, a Flame,<\/p>\n

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

A
\nviolent Ecstasy, a Sweetness dire,<\/p>\n

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

And
\npenetrated nerve and heart and brain<\/p>\n

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

His
\nnature shuddered in the Unknown’s grasp.<\/p>\n

In a
\nmoment shorter than Death, longer than Time,<\/p>\n

By a
\npower more ruthless than Love, happier than Heaven,<\/p>\n

Taken
\n sovereignly<\/span> into eternal
\narms,<\/p>\n

Haled
\nand coerced by a stark absolute bliss,<\/p>\n

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

Hurried
\ninto unimaginable depths,<\/p>\n

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

It
\nwas torn out from its mortality<\/p>\n

And
\nunderwent a new and bourneless<\/span>
\nchange.<\/p>\n

An
\nOmniscient knowing without sight or thought,<\/p>\n

An
\nindecipherable Omnipotence,<\/p>\n

A
\nmystic Form that could contain the worlds,<\/p>\n

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

Drew
\nhim out of his seeking loneliness<\/p>\n

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

As
\nwhen a timeless Eye annuls the hours<\/p>\n

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

So
\nnow his spirit shone out wide, blank, pure:<\/p>\n

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

On
\nwhich the Universal and Sole could write.<\/p>\n

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

Was
\ntaken from him like a forgotten load:<\/p>\n

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

Consumed
\nthe limiting figures of the past<\/p>\n

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

Eternity’s
\ncontact broke the moulds of sense. <\/p>\n

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A
\ngreater force than the earthly held his limbs,<\/p>\n

Huge
\nworkings bared his undiscovered sheaths,<\/p>\n

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

Unwound
\nthe triple cord of mind and freed<\/p>\n

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

As
\nthrough a dress the wearer’s shape is seen,<\/p>\n

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

A
\ncosmic feeling and transcendent sight.<\/p>\n

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

Illusion
\nlost her aggrandising<\/span>
\nlens;<\/p>\n

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

Atomic
\nlooked the things that loomed so large.<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthe enormous spaces of the self<\/p>\n

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

His
\nmind the many-frescoed outer court<\/p>\n

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

His
\nspirit breathed a superhuman air.<\/p>\n

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

As
\nwith a sound of thunder and of seas,<\/p>\n

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

Immutably
\ncoeval with the world,<\/p>\n

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

Inexorably
\ndrawn round thought and act,<\/p>\n

The
\nfixed immovable peripheries<\/p>\n

Effaced
\nthemselves beneath the Incarnate’s<\/span>
\ntread.<\/p>\n

The
\ndire velamen<\/span> and the
\nbottomless crypt<\/p>\n

Between
\nwhich life and thought for ever move,<\/p>\n

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

The
\nguardian darknesses<\/span> mute and
\nformidable,<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthe boundaries of Mind and Ignorance,<\/p>\n

Protecting
\nno more a dual eternity<\/p>\n

Vanished
\nrescinding their enormous role:<\/p>\n

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

The
\nexpanding zero lost its giant curve. <\/p>\n

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

Overpowered
\nwere earth and Nature’s obsolete rule;<\/p>\n

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

Could
\nnot restrain the swift arisen God:<\/p>\n

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

There
\nwas no small death-hunted creature more,<\/p>\n

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

From
\nan all-swallowing Immensity.<\/p>\n

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

Burst
\nopen the narrow dams that keep us safe<\/p>\n

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

The
\nsoul and cosmos faced as equal powers.<\/p>\n

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

Invaded
\nNature with the infinite;<\/p>\n

He
\nsaw unpathed<\/span>, unwalled<\/span>
\nhis titan scope.<\/p>\n

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All was
\nuncovered to his sealless<\/span>
\neye.<\/p>\n

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

Once
\nin a dreaded half-light formidable,<\/p>\n

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

Lay
\nbare to the burning splendour of his will.<\/p>\n

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

And
\nopening hardly to hid mystic keys<\/p>\n

Her
\nperilous arcanes<\/span> and hooded
\nPowers<\/p>\n

Confessed
\nthe advent of a mastering Mind<\/p>\n

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

Incalculable
\nin their wizard modes,<\/p>\n

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

Her
\nsecret strengths native to greater worlds<\/p>\n

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

The
\noccult privilege of demigods<\/p>\n

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

Her
\ndiagrams of geometric force,<\/p>\n

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

Courted
\nemployment by an earth-nursed might.<\/p>\n

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

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Armed
\nwith a latent splendour of miracle<\/p>\n

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

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

All
\nonce impossible deemed could now become<\/p>\n

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

A
\nnew domain of normalcy supreme.<\/p>\n

An
\nalmighty occultist erects in space<\/p>\n

This
\nseeming outward world which tricks the sense;<\/p>\n

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

He
\nbuilds bodies for his shapeless energy;<\/p>\n

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

His
\nsorcery of solid images,<\/p>\n

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

The
\nfixed irrational links none can annul,<\/p>\n

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

His
\ninfallible rules, his covered processes,<\/p>\n

Achieve
\nunerringly an inexplicable<\/p>\n

Creation
\nwhere our error carves dead frames<\/p>\n

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

In
\nher mystery’s moods divorced from the Maker’s laws<\/p>\n

She
\ntoo as sovereignly<\/span> creates her
\nfield,<\/p>\n

Her
\nwill shaping the undetermined vasts<\/span>,<\/p>\n

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

She
\ntoo can make an order of her caprice,<\/p>\n

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

The
\nveiled Creator’s cosmic secrecies.<\/p>\n

The
\nrapid footsteps of her phantasy,<\/p>\n

Amid
\nwhose falls wonders like flowers rise,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nswifter than Imagination’s wings.<\/p>\n

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

Compels
\nall substance by her wand of Mind.<\/p>\n

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

Its
\npowers can undo all Nature’s work:<\/p>\n

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

Affranchised
\nfrom earth-habit’s drowsy seal <\/p>\n

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

Indifferent
\nto the angry stare of Death,<\/p>\n

It
\ncan immortalise<\/span> a moment’s
\nwork:<\/p>\n

A
\nsimple fiat of its thinking force,<\/p>\n

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

Can
\nliberate the Energy dumb and pent<\/p>\n

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

It
\nmakes the body’s sleep a puissant arm,<\/p>\n

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

While
\nthe unseen is found, the impossible done,<\/p>\n

Communicates
\nwithout means the unspoken thought;<\/p>\n

It
\nmoves events by its bare silent will,<\/p>\n

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

This
\ngiant Ignorance, this dwarfish Life<\/p>\n

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

Invoke
\nthe bacchic<\/span> rapture, the
\nFury’s goad,<\/p>\n

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

Call
\nin the Omniscient and Omnipotent,<\/p>\n

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

In
\nits own plane a shining emperor,<\/p>\n

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

The
\nlogic of its demigod Idea,<\/p>\n

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

Surprises
\nof creation never achieved<\/p>\n

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

All’s
\nmiracle here and can by miracle change.<\/p>\n

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

On
\nthe margin of great immaterial planes,<\/p>\n

In
\nkingdoms of an untrammelled<\/span>
\nglory of force,<\/p>\n

Where
\nMind is master of the life and form<\/p>\n

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

She
\nmeditates upon mighty words and looks<\/p>\n

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

Thence
\nto the initiate who observes her laws<\/p>\n

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

Here
\nwhere he stands, his feet on a prostrate world, <\/p>\n

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

Over
\ntheir bounds in spurts of splendid strength<\/p>\n

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

And
\nthe formulas of their stupendous speech,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nthe universe the slave of mortal will.<\/p>\n

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

Whose
\nalien will touches our human life,<\/p>\n

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

She
\ninvents for her self-bound free will its grooves<\/p>\n

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

All
\nworlds she makes the partners of her deeds,<\/p>\n

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

Her
\ndaring leaps into the impossible:<\/p>\n

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

She
\ndraws from the free-love marriage of the planes<\/p>\n

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

A
\nwonder-weft of knowledge incalculable,<\/p>\n

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

She
\nhas combined to make the unreal true<\/p>\n

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

In
\nher unhedged<\/span> Circean<\/span>
\nwonderland<\/p>\n

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

Her
\nmnemonics of the craft of the Infinite,<\/p>\n

Jets
\nof the screened subliminal’s<\/span>
\ncaprice,<\/p>\n

Tags
\nof the gramarye<\/span> of
\nInconscience,<\/p>\n

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

Thoughts
\nthat were born in the immortals’ world,<\/p>\n

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

Warnings
\nfrom the daemonic inner voice<\/p>\n

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

And
\nintimations to the inner ear,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nthe superconscient’s<\/span>
\nunaccountable acts,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nthe weird technique of her tremendous art. <\/p>\n

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

As
\none resisting more the more she loves,<\/p>\n

Her
\ngreat possessions and her power and law<\/p>\n

She
\ngave, compelled, with a reluctant joy;<\/p>\n

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

Absolved
\nfrom aberrations in deep ways,<\/p>\n

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

She
\nturned against the evil she had helped<\/p>\n

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

Her
\ndangerous moods and arbitrary force<\/p>\n

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

And
\nthe control of a spiritual will.<\/p>\n

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

Assailed,
\nsurprised in the fortress of her self,<\/p>\n

Conquered
\nby her own unexpected King,<\/p>\n

Fulfilled
\nand ransomed by her servitude,<\/p>\n

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

Her
\nsealed hieratic wisdom forced from her,<\/p>\n

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

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A border
\nsovereign is the occult Force.<\/p>\n

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

She
\nhas canalised<\/span> the outbreaks of
\nthe Gods<\/p>\n

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

A
\nlong road of shimmering discoveries.<\/p>\n

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

Behind
\nher an ineffable Presence stood:<\/p>\n

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

Their
\nlion-forces crouched beneath her feet;<\/p>\n

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

Abysms
\ninfernal gaped round the soul’s steps<\/p>\n

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

An
\nendless climb and adventure of the Idea<\/p>\n

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

And
\ncountless voices visited the charmed ear;<\/p>\n

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

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This
\nwas a forefront of God’s thousandfold<\/span>
\nhouse,<\/p>\n

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

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

Quivered
\nin a penumbra of screened Light,<\/p>\n

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

A
\nbalcony and miraculous fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n

Above
\nher lightened high immensities;<\/p>\n

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

It
\nlodged upon an edge of hourless<\/span>
\nTime,<\/p>\n

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

Its
\nshadows gleaming with the birth of gods,<\/p>\n

Its
\nbodies signalling<\/span> the
\nBodiless,<\/p>\n

Its
\nforeheads glowing with the Oversoul<\/span>,<\/p>\n

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

Its
\neyes dreaming of the Ineffable,<\/p>\n

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

Life
\nin him learned its huge subconscient rear;<\/p>\n

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

Her
\ngulfs stood nude, her far transcendences<\/p>\n

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

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A giant
\norder was discovered here<\/p>\n

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

Are
\nthe scant stuff of our material lives.<\/p>\n

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

The
\nsecrets merged in superconscient light,<\/p>\n

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

A
\nmap of subtle signs surpassing thought<\/p>\n

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

Illumining
\nthe world’s concrete images<\/p>\n

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

It
\noffered to the intuitive exegete<\/p>\n

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

Ascending
\nand descending twixt life’s poles<\/p>\n

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

Plunged
\nfrom the Everlasting into Time, <\/p>\n

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

And
\nrich with life’s adventure and delight<\/p>\n

And
\npacked with the beauty of Matter’s shapes and hues<\/p>\n

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

Up a
\ngolden ladder carrying the Soul,<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthis drop from consciousness to consciousness<\/p>\n

Each
\nleaned on the occult Inconscient’s<\/span>
\npower,<\/p>\n

The
\nfountain of its needed Ignorance,<\/p>\n

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

In
\nthis soar from consciousness to consciousness<\/p>\n

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

Origin
\nof all that it had ever been<\/p>\n

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

An
\norgan scale of the Eternal’s<\/span>
\nacts,<\/p>\n

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

Paces
\nof the many-visaged<\/span>
\nWonderful,<\/p>\n

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

Measures
\nof the stature of the growing soul,<\/p>\n

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

And,
\nmediating twixt the heights and deeps,<\/p>\n

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

And
\nlinked creation to the Ineffable.<\/p>\n

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

In
\nits summit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep,<\/p>\n

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

All
\nthere discovered what it seeks for here.<\/p>\n

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

And
\nrose into its own eternities.<\/p>\n

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

The
\nidea and feeling groping in Ignorance<\/p>\n

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

The
\nmusic born in Matter’s silences<\/p>\n

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

The
\nmeaning it had held but could not voice;<\/p>\n

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

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An
\nanswer brought to the torn earth’s hungry need<\/p>\n

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

Giving
\nto her her<\/span> lost forgotten
\nsoul.<\/p>\n

A
\ngrand solution closed the long impasse<\/p>\n

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

A
\nreconciling Wisdom looked on life;<\/p>\n

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

And
\ntook the confused refrain of human hopes<\/p>\n

And
\nmade of them a sweet and happy call:<\/p>\n

It
\nlifted from an underground of pain<\/p>\n

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

And
\nfound for it a sense illimitable.<\/p>\n

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

It
\ncaught the soul’s faint scattered utterances,<\/p>\n

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

Or
\nmid this drowse and coma on Matter’s breast<\/p>\n

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

It
\ngrouped the golden links that they had lost<\/p>\n

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

Saving
\nfrom the error of divided self<\/p>\n

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

All
\nthe great Words that toiled to express the One<\/p>\n

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

An
\never-burning Revelation’s fire<\/p>\n

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

There
\nwas no quarrel more of truth with truth;<\/p>\n

The
\nendless chapter of their differences,<\/p>\n

Retold
\nin light by an omniscient Scribe,<\/p>\n

Travelled<\/span> through difference
\ntowards unity,<\/p>\n

Mind’s
\nwinding search lost every tinge of doubt<\/p>\n

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

That
\ngarbed the initial and original thought<\/p>\n

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

United
\nwere Time’s creative mood and tense<\/p>\n

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

A
\npaean swelled from the lost musing deeps; <\/p>\n

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

A
\ncry of the moments to the Immortal’s bliss.<\/p>\n

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

A
\nhierarchy of climbing harmonies<\/p>\n

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

Aspired
\nin a crescendo of the Gods<\/p>\n

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

Above
\nwere the Immortal’s changeless seats,<\/p>\n

White
\nchambers of dalliance with Eternity<\/p>\n

And
\nthe stupendous gates of the Alone.<\/p>\n

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

Appeared
\nthe deathless countries of the One.<\/p>\n

A
\nmany-miracled<\/span> consciousness
\nunrolled<\/p>\n

Vast
\naim and process and unfettered norm,<\/p>\n

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

Affranchised
\nfrom the net of earthly sense<\/p>\n

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

Homelands
\nof beauty shut to human eyes,<\/p>\n

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

Surprised
\nthe vision with felicity;<\/p>\n

Sunbelts
\nof knowledge, moonbelts<\/span>
\nof delight<\/p>\n

Stretched
\nout in an ecstasy of widenesses<\/span><\/p>\n

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

There
\nhe could enter, there awhile abide.<\/p>\n

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

Fronting
\nthe viewless danger of the Unknown,<\/p>\n

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

He
\nbroke into another Space and Time.<\/p>\n

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End of Canto Five<\/p>\n

End of Book One<\/i> <\/p>\n

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