(S 1) |
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Then after silence a still blissful cry |
|
960 |
Began, such as arose from the Infinite |
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When the first whisperings of a strange delight |
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Imagined in its deep the joy to seek, |
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The passion to discover and to touch, |
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The enamoured laugh which rhymed the chanting worlds: |
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965 |
“O beautiful body of the incarnate Word, |
EoS |
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Thy thoughts are mine, I have spoken with thy voice. |
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(S 2) |
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My will is thine, what thou hast chosen I choose: |
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All thou hast asked I give to earth and men. |
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(S 3) |
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All shall be written out in destiny’s book |
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970 |
By my trustee of thought and plan and act, |
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The executor of my will, eternal Time. |
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(S 4) |
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But since thou hast refused my maimless Calm |
EoS |
|
And turned from my termless peace in which is expunged |
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The visage of Space and the shape of Time is lost, |
|
975 |
And from happy extinction of thy separate self |
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In my uncompanioned lone eternity, — |
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For not for thee the nameless worldless Nought, |
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Annihilation of thy living soul |
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And the end of thought and hope and life and love |
|
980 |
In the blank measureless Unknowable, — |
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I lay my hands upon thy soul of flame, |
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I lay my hands upon thy heart of love, |
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I yoke thee to my power of work in Time. |
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(S 5) |
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Because thou hast obeyed my timeless will, |
EoS |
985 |
Because thou hast chosen to share earth’s struggle and fate |
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And leaned in pity over earth-bound men |
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And turned aside to help and yearned to save, |
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I bind by thy heart’s passion thy heart to mine |
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And lay my splendid yoke upon thy soul. |
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(S 6) |
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990 |
Now will I do in thee my marvellous works. |
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(S 7) |
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I will fasten thy nature with my cords of strength, |
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Subdue to my delight thy spirit’s limbs |
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And make thee a vivid knot of all my bliss |
|
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And build in thee my proud and crystal home. |
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(S 8) |
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995 |
Thy days shall be my shafts of power and light, |
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Thy nights my starry mysteries of joy |
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And all my clouds lie tangled in thy hair |
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And all my springtides marry in thy mouth. |
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(S 9) |
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O Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light |
EoS |
1000 |
And bring down God into the lives of men; |
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Earth shall be my work-chamber and my house, |
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My garden of life to plant a seed divine. |
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(S 10) |
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When all thy work in human time is done |
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The mind of earth shall be a home of light, |
|
1005 |
The life of earth a tree growing towards heaven, |
|
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The body of earth a tabernacle of God. |
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(S 11) |
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Awakened from the mortal’s ignorance |
|
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Men shall be lit with the Eternal’s ray |
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And the glory of my sun-lift in their thoughts |
|
1010 |
And feel in their hearts the sweetness of my love |
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And in their acts my Power’s miraculous drive. |
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(S 12) |
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My will shall be the meaning of their days; |
|
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Living for me, by me, in me they shall live. |
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(S 13) |
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In the heart of my creation’s mystery |
|
1015 |
I will enact the drama of thy soul, |
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Inscribe the long romance of Thee and Me. |
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(S 14) |
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I will pursue thee across the centuries; |
|
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Thou shalt be hunted through the world by love, |
|
|
Naked of ignorance’ protecting veil |
|
1020 |
And without covert from my radiant gods. |
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(S 15) |
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No shape shall screen screen from my divine desire, |
|
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Nowhere shalt thou escape my living eyes. |
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(S 16) |
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In the nudity of thy discovered self, |
EoS |
|
In a bare identity with all that is, |
|
1025 |
Disrobed of thy covering of humanity, |
|
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Divested of the dense veil of human thought, |
|
|
Made one with every mind and body and heart, |
|
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Made one with all Nature and with Self and God, |
|
|
Summing in thy single soul my mystic world |
|
1030 |
I will possess in thee my universe, |
|
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The universe find all I am in thee. |
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(S 17) |
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Thou shalt bear all things that all things may change, |
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Thou shalt fill all with my splendour and my bliss, |
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Thou shalt meet all with thy transmuting soul. |
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(S 18) |
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|
1035 |
Assailed by my infinitudes above, |
|
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And quivering in immensities below, |
|
|
Pursued by me through my mind’s wall-less vast, |
|
|
Oceanic with the surges of my life, |
|
|
A swimmer lost between two leaping seas |
|
1040 |
By my outer pains and inner sweetnesses |
|
|
Finding my joy in my opposite mysteries |
|
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Thou shalt respond to me from every nerve. |
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(S 19) |
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A vision shall compel thy coursing breath, |
|
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Thy heart shall drive thee on the wheel of works, |
|
1045 |
Thy mind shall urge thee through the flames of thought, |
|
|
To meet me in the abyss and on the heights, |
|
|
To feel me in the tempest and the calm,tempest |
|
|
And love me in the noble and the vile, |
|
|
In beautiful things and terrible desire. |
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(S 20) |
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|
1050 |
The pains of hell shall be to thee my kiss, |
EoS |
|
The flowers of heaven persuade thee with my touch. |
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(S 21) |
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My fiercest masks shall my attractions bring. |
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(S 22) |
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Music shall find thee in the voice of swords, |
|
|
Beauty pursue thee through the core of flame. |
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(S 23) |
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|
1055 |
Thou shalt know me in the rolling of the spheres |
|
|
And cross me in the atoms of the whirl. |
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(S 24) |
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|
|
The wheeling forces of my universe |
|
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Shall cry to thee the summons of my name. |
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(S 25) |
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|
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Delight shall drop down from my nectarous moon, |
|
1060 |
My fragrance seize thee in the jasmine’s snare, |
|
|
My eye shall look upon thee from the sun. |
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(S 26) |
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|
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Mirror of Nature’s secret spirit made, |
|
|
Thou shalt reflect my hidden heart of joy, |
|
|
Thou shalt drink down my sweetness unalloyed |
|
1065 |
In my pure lotus-cup of starry brim. |
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(S 27) |
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|
|
My dreadful hands laid on thy bosom shall force |
|
|
Thy being bathed in fiercest longing’s streams. |
|
(S 28) |
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|
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Thou shalt discover the one and quivering note, |
|
|
And cry, the harp of all my melodies, |
|
1070 |
And roll, my foaming wave in seas of love. |
|
(S 29) |
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|
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Even my disasters’ clutch shall be to thee |
|
|
The ordeal of my rapture’s contrary shape: |
|
|
In pain’s self shall smile on thee my secret face: |
|
|
Thou shalt bear my ruthless beauty unabridged |
|
1075 |
Amid the world’s intolerable wrongs, |
|
|
Trampled by the violent misdeeds of Time |
|
|
Cry out to the ecstasy of my rapture’s touch. |
|
(S 30) |
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|
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All beings shall be to thy life my emissaries; |
|
|
Drawn to me on the bosom of thy friend, |
|
1080 |
Compelled to meet me in thy enemy’s eyes, |
|
|
My creatures shall demand me from thy heart. |
|
(S 31) |
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|
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Thou shalt not shrink from any brother soul. |
|
(S 32) |
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|
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Thou shalt be attracted helplessly to all. |
|
(S 33) |
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|
|
Men seeing thee shall feel my hands of joy, |
|
1085 |
In sorrow’s pangs feel steps of the world’s delight, |
|
|
Their life experience its tumultuous shock |
|
|
In the mutual craving of two opposites. |
|
(S 34) |
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|
|
Hearts touched by thy love shall answer to my call, |
EoS |
|
Discover the ancient music of the spheres |
|
1090 |
In the revealing accents of thy voice |
|
|
And nearer draw to me because thou art: |
|
|
Enamoured of thy spirit’s loveliness |
|
|
They shall embrace my body in thy soul, |
|
|
Hear in thy life the beauty of my laugh, |
|
1095 |
Know the thrilled bliss with which I made the worlds. |
|
(S 35) |
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|
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All that thou hast, shall be for others’ bliss, |
EoS |
|
All that thou art, shall to my hands belong. |
|
(S 36) |
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|
|
I will pour delight from thee as from a jar, |
|
|
I will whirl thee as my chariot through the ways, |
|
1100 |
I will use thee as my sword and as my lyre, |
|
|
I will play on thee my minstrelsies of thought. |
|
(S 37) |
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|
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And when thou art vibrant with all ecstasy, |
EoS |
|
And when thou liv’st one spirit with all things, |
|
|
Then will I spare thee not my living fires, |
|
1105 |
But make thee a channel for my timeless force. |
|
(S 38) |
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|
|
My hidden presence led thee unknowing on |
|
|
From thy beginning in earth’s voiceless bosom |
|
|
Through life and pain and time and will and death, |
|
|
Through outer shocks and inner silences |
|
1110 |
Along the mystic roads of Space and Time |
|
|
To the experience which all Nature hides. |
|
(S 39) |
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|
|
Who hunts and seizes me, my captive grows: |
|
|
This shalt thou henceforth learn from thy heart-beats. |
|
(S 40) |
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|
|
For ever love, O beautiful slave of God! |
|
(S 41) |
|
|
1115 |
O lasso of my rapture’s widening noose, |
|
|
Become my cord of universal love. |
|
(S 42) |
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|
|
The spirit ensnared by thee force to delight |
|
|
Of creation’s oneness sweet and fathomless, |
|
|
Compelled to embrace my myriad unities |
|
1120 |
And all my endless forms and divine souls. |
|
(S 43) |
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|
|
O Mind, grow full of the eternal peace; |
|
|
O Word, cry out the immortal litany: |
|
|
Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born. |
|
(S 44) |
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|
|
“Descend to life with him thy heart desires. |
|
(S 45) |
|
|
1125 |
O Satyavan, O luminous Savitri, |
|
|
I sent you forth of old beneath the stars, |
|
|
A dual power of God in an ignorant world, |
|
|
In a hedged creation shut from limitless self, |
|
|
Bringing down God to the insentient globe, |
|
1130 |
Lifting earth-beings to immortality. |
|
(S 46) |
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|
|
In the world of my knowledge and my ignorance |
EoS |
|
Where God is unseen and only is heard a Name |
|
|
And knowledge is trapped in the boundaries of mind |
|
|
And life is hauled in the drag-net of desire |
|
1135 |
And Matter hides the soul from its own sight, |
|
|
You are my Force at work to uplift earth’s fate, |
|
|
My self that moves up the immense incline |
|
|
Between the extremes of the spirit’s night and day. |
|
(S 47) |
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|
|
He is my soul that climbs from nescient Night |
|
1140 |
Through life and mind and supernature’s Vast |
|
|
To the supernal light of Timelessness |
|
|
And my eternity hid in moving Time |
|
|
And my boundlessness cut by the curve of Space. |
|
(S 48) |
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|
|
It climbs to the greatness it has left behind |
EoS |
1145 |
And to the beauty and joy from which it fell, |
|
|
To the closeness and sweetness of all things divine, |
|
|
To light without bounds and life illimitable, |
|
|
Taste of the depths of the Ineffable’s bliss, |
|
|
Touch of the immortal and the infinite. |
|
(S 49) |
|
|
1150 |
He is my soul that gropes out of the beast |
|
|
To reach humanity’s heights of lucent thought |
|
|
And the vicinity of Truth’s sublime. |
|
(S 50) |
|
|
|
He is the godhead growing in human lives |
EoS |
|
And in the body of earth-being’s forms: |
|
1155 |
He is the soul of man climbing to God |
|
|
In Nature’s surge out of earth’s ignorance. |
|
(S 51) |
|
|
|
O Savitri, thou art my spirit’s Power, |
|
|
The revealing voice of my immortal Word, |
|
|
The face of Truth upon the roads of Time |
|
1160 |
Pointing to the souls of men the routes to God. |
|
(S 52) |
|
|
|
While the dim light from the veiled Spirit’s peak |
EoS |
|
Falls upon Matter’s stark inconscient sleep |
|
|
As if a pale moonbeam on a dense glade, |
|
|
And Mind in a half-light moves amid half-truths |
|
1165 |
And the human heart knows only human love |
|
|
And life is a stumbling and imperfect force |
|
|
And the body counts out its precarious days, |
|
|
You shall be born into man’s dubious hours |
|
|
In forms that hide the soul’s divinity |
|
1170 |
And show through veils of the earth’s doubting air |
|
|
My glory breaking as through clouds a sun, |
|
|
Or burning like a rare and inward fire, |
|
|
And with my nameless influence fill men’s lives. |
|
(S 53) |
|
|
|
Yet shall they look up as to peaks of God |
|
1175 |
And feel God like a circumambient air |
|
|
And rest on God as on a motionless base. |
|
(S 54) |
|
|
|
Yet shall there glow on mind like a horned moon |
|
|
The Spirit’s crescent splendour in pale skies |
|
|
And light man’s life upon his Godward road. |
|
(S 55) |
|
|
1180 |
But more there is concealed in God’s Beyond |
EoS |
|
That shall one day reveal its hidden face. |
|
(S 56) |
|
|
|
Now mind is all and its uncertain ray, |
|
|
Mind is the leader of the body and life, |
|
|
Mind the thought-driven chariot of the soul |
|
1185 |
Carrying the luminous wanderer in the night |
|
|
To vistas of a far uncertain dawn, |
|
|
To the end of the Spirit’s fathomless desire, |
|
|
To its dream of absolute truth and utter bliss. |
|
(S 57) |
|
|
|
There are greater destinies mind cannot surmise |
|
1190 |
Fixed on the summit of the evolving Path |
|
|
The Traveller now treads in the Ignorance, |
|
|
Unaware of his next step, not knowing his goal. |
|
(S 58) |
|
|
|
Mind is not all his tireless climb can reach, |
|
|
There is a fire on the apex of the worlds, |
|
1195 |
There is a house of the Eternal’s light, |
|
|
There is an infinite truth, an absolute power. |
|
(S 59) |
|
|
|
The Spirit’s mightiness shall cast off its mask; |
EoS |
|
Its greatness shall be felt shaping the world’s course: |
|
|
It shall be seen in its own veilless beams, |
|
1200 |
A star rising from the Inconscient’s night, |
|
|
A sun climbing to Supernature’s peak. |
|
(S 60) |
|
|
|
Abandoning the dubious middle Way, |
EoS |
|
A few shall glimpse the miraculous Origin |
|
|
And some shall feel in you the secret Force |
|
1205 |
And they shall turn to meet a nameless tread |
|
|
Adventurers into a mightier Day. |
|
(S 61) |
|
|
|
Ascending out of the limiting breadths of mind, |
EoS |
|
They shall discover the world’s huge design |
|
|
And step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast. |
|
(S 62) |
|
|
1210 |
You shall reveal to them the hidden eternities, |
|
|
The breath of infinitudes not yet revealed, |
|
|
Some rapture of the bliss that made the world, |
|
|
Some rush of the force of God’s omnipotence, |
|
|
Some beam of the omniscient Mystery. |
|
(S 63) |
|
|
1215 |
But when the hour of the Divine draws near |
EoS |
|
The Mighty Mother shall take birth in Time |
|
|
And God be born into the human clay |
|
|
In forms made ready by your human lives. |
|
(S 64) |
|
|
|
Then shall the Truth supreme be given to men: |
|
1220 |
There is a being beyond the being of mind, |
EoS |
|
An Immeasurable cast into many forms, |
|
|
A miracle of the multitudinous One, |
|
|
There is a consciousness mind cannot touch, |
|
|
Its speech cannot utter nor its thought reveal. |
|
(S 65) |
|
|
1225 |
It has no home on earth, no centre in man, |
|
|
Yet is the source of all things thought and done, |
|
|
The fount of the creation and its works, |
|
|
It is the origin of all truth here, |
|
|
The sun-orbof mind’s fragmentary rays, |
|
1230 |
Infinity’s heaven that spills the rain of God, |
EoS |
|
The Immense that calls to man to expand the Spirit, |
|
|
The wide Aim that justifies his narrow attempts, |
|
|
A channel for the little he tastes of bliss. |
|
(S 66) |
|
|
|
Some shall be made the glory’s receptacles |
EoS |
1235 |
And vehicles of the Eternal’s luminous power. |
|
(S 67) |
|
|
|
These are the high forerunners, the heads of Time, |
|
|
The great deliverers of earth-bound mind, |
|
|
The high transfigurers of human clay, |
|
|
The first-born of a new supernal race. |
|
(S 68) |
|
|
1240 |
The incarnate dual Power shall open God’s door, |
EoS |
|
Eternal supermind touch earthly Time. |
|
(S 69) |
|
|
|
The superman shall wake in mortal man |
|
|
And manifest the hidden demigod |
|
|
Or grow into the God-Light and God-Force |
|
1245 |
Revealing the secret deity in the cave. |
|
(S 70) |
|
|
|
Then shall the earth be touched by the Supreme, |
|
|
His bright unveiled Transcendence shall illumine |
|
|
The mind and heart and force the life and act |
|
|
To interpret his inexpressible mystery |
|
1250 |
In a heavenly alphabet of Divinity’s signs. |
|
(S 71) |
|
|
|
His living cosmic spirit shall enring, |
EoS |
|
Annulling the decree of death and pain, |
|
|
Erasing the formulas of the Ignorance, |
|
|
With the deep meaning of beauty and life’s hid sense, |
|
1255 |
The being ready for immortality, |
|
|
His regard crossing infinity’s mystic waves |
|
|
Bring back to Nature her early joy to live, |
|
|
The metred heart-beats of a lost delight, |
|
|
The cry of a forgotten ecstasy, |
|
1260 |
The dance of the first world-creating Bliss. |
|
(S 72) |
|
|
|
The Immanent shall be the witness God |
|
|
Watching on his many-petalled lotus-throne |
|
|
His actionless being and his silent might |
|
|
Ruling earth-nature by eternity’s law, |
|
1265 |
A thinker waking the Inconscient’s world, |
|
|
An immobile centre of many infinitudes |
|
|
In his thousand-pillared temple by Time’s sea. |
|
(S 73) |
|
|
|
Then shall the embodied being live as one |
EoS |
|
Who is a thought, a will of the Divine, |
|
1270 |
A mask or robe of his divinity, |
|
|
An instrument and partner of his Force, |
|
|
A point or line drawn in the infinite, |
|
|
A manifest of the Imperishable . |
|
(S 74) |
|
|
|
The supermind shall be his nature’s fount, |
EoS |
1275 |
The Eternal’s truth shall mould his thoughts and acts, |
|
|
The Eternal’s truth shall be his light and guide. |
|
(S 75) |
|
|
|
All then shall change, a magic order come |
EoS |
|
Overtopping this mechanical universe. |
|
(S 76) |
|
|
|
A mightier race shall inhabit the mortal’s world. |
|
(S 77) |
|
|
1280 |
On Nature’s luminous tops, on the Spirit’s ground, |
|
|
The superman shall reign as king of life, |
|
|
Make earth almost the mate and peer of heaven, |
|
|
And lead towards God and truth man’s ignorant heart |
|
|
And lift towards godhead his mortality. |
|
(S 78) |
|
|
1285 |
A power released from circumscribing bounds, |
|
|
Its height pushed up beyond death’s hungry reach, |
|
|
Life’s tops shall flame with the Immortal’s thoughts, |
|
|
Light shall invade the darkness of its base. |
|
(S 79) |
|
|
|
Then in the process of evolving Time |
EoS |
1290 |
All shall be drawn into a single plan, |
|
|
A divine harmony shall be earth’s law, |
|
|
Beauty and joy remould her way to live: |
|
|
Even the body shall remember God, |
|
|
Nature shall draw back from mortality |
|
1295 |
And Spirit’s fires shall guide the earth’s blind force; |
|
|
Knowledge shall bring into the aspirant Thought |
EoS |
|
A high proximity to Truth and God. |
|
(S 80) |
|
|
|
The supermind shall claim the world for Light |
|
|
And thrill with love of God the enamoured heart |
|
1300 |
And place Light’s crown on Nature’s lifted head |
|
|
And found Light’s reign on her unshaking base. |
|
(S 81) |
|
|
|
A greater truth than earth’s shall roof-in earth |
|
|
And shed its sunlight on the roads of mind; |
|
|
A power infallible shall lead the thought, |
|
1305 |
A seeing Puissance govern life and act, |
|
|
In earthly hearts kindle the Immortal’s fire. |
|
(S 82) |
|
|
|
A soul shall wake in the Inconscient’s house; |
|
|
The mind shall be God-vision’s tabernacle,, |
|
|
The body intuition’s instrument, |
|
1310 |
And life a channel for God’s visible power. |
|
(S 83) |
|
|
|
All earth shall be the Spirit’s manifest home, |
|
|
Hidden no more by the body and the life, |
|
|
Hidden no more by the mind’s ignorance; |
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An unerring Hand shall shape event and act. |
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(S 84) |
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1315 |
The Spirit’s eyes shall look through Nature’s eyes, |
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The Spirit’s force shall occupy Nature’s force. |
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(S 85) |
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This world shall be God’s visible garden-house, |
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The earth shall be a field and camp of God, |
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Man shall forget consent to mortality |
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1320 |
And his embodied frail impermanence |
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(S 86) |
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This universe shall unseal its occult sense, |
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Creation’s process change its antique front, |
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An ignorant evolution’s hierarchy |
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Release the Wisdom chained below its base. |
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(S 87) |
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The Spirit shall be the master of his world |
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Lurking no more in form’s obscurity |
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And Nature shall reverse her action’s rule, |
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The outward world disclose the Truth it veils; |
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All things shall manifest the covert God, |
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1330 |
All shall reveal the Spirit’s light and might |
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And move to its destiny of felicity. |
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(S 88) |
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Even should a hostile force cling to its reign |
EoS |
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And claim its right’s perpetual sovereignty |
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And man refuse his high spiritual fate, |
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Yet shall the secret Truth in things prevail. |
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(S 89) |
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For in the march of all-fulfilling Time |
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The hour must come of the Transcendent’s will: |
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All turns and winds towards his predestined ends |
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In Nature’s fixed inevitable course |
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1340 |
Decreed since the beginning of the worlds |
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In the deep essence of created things: |
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Even there shall come as a high crown of all |
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The end of Death, the death of Ignorance. |
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(S 90) |
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But first high Truth must set her feet on earth |
EoS |
1345 |
And man aspire to the Eternal’s light |
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And all his members feel the Spirit’s touch |
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And all his life obey an inner Force. |
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(S 91) |
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This too shall be; for a new life shall come, |
EoS |
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A body of the Superconscients truth, |
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1350 |
A native field of Supernature’s mights: |
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It shall make earth’s nescient ground Truth’s colony, |
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Make even the Ignorance a transparent robe |
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Through which shall shine the brilliant limbs of Truth |
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And Truth shall be a sun on Nature’s head |
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1355 |
And Truth shall be the guide of Nature’s steps |
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And Truth shall gaze out of her nether deeps. |
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(S 92) |
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When superman is born as Nature’s king |
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His presence shall transfigure Matter’s world: |
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He shall light up Truth’s fire in Nature’s night, |
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1360 |
He shall lay upon the earth Truth’s greater law; |
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Man too shall turn towards the Spirit’s call. |
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(S 93) |
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Awake to his hidden possibility, |
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Awake to all that slept within his heart |
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And all that Nature meant when earth was formed |
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1365 |
And the Spirit made this ignorant world his home, |
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He shall aspire to Truth and God and Bliss. |
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(S 94) |
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Interpreter of a diviner law |
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And instrument of a supreme design, |
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The higher kind shall lean to lift up man. |
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(S 95) |
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Man shall desire to climb to his own heights. |
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(S 96) |
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The truth above shall wake a nether truth, |
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Even the dumb earth become a sentient force. |
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(S 97) |
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The Spirit’s tops and Nature’s base shall draw |
EoS |
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Near to the secret of their separate truth |
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1375 |
And know each other as one deity. |
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(S 98) |
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The Spirit shall look out through Matter’s gaze |
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And Matter shall reveal the Spirit’s face. |
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(S 99) |
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Then man and superman shall be at one |
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And all the earth become a single life. |
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(S 100) |
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1380 |
Even the multitude shall hear the Voice |
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And turn to commune with the Spirit within |
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And strive to obey the high spiritual law: |
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This earth shall stir with impulses sublime, |
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Humanity awake to deepest self, |
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1385 |
Nature the hidden godhead recognise. |
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(S 101) |
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Even the many shall some answer make |
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And bear the splendour of the Divine’s rush |
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And his impetuous knock at unseen doors. |
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(S 102) |
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A heavenlier passion shall upheave men’s lives, |
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1390 |
Their mind shall share in the ineffable gleam, |
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Their heart shall feel the ecstasy and the fire. |
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(S 103) |
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Earth’s bodies shall be conscious of a soul; |
EoS |
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Mortality’s bondslaves shall unloose their bonds, |
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Mere men into spiritual beings grow |
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And see awake the dumb divinity. |
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(S 104) |
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Intuitive beams shall touch the nature’s peaks, |
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A revelation stir the nature’s depths; |
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The Truth shall be the leader of their lives, |
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Truth shall dictate their thought and speech and act, |
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1400 |
They shall feel themselves lifted nearer to the sky, |
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As if a little lower than the gods. |
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(S 105) |
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For knowledge shall pour down in radiant streams |
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And even darkened mind quiver with new life |
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And kindle and burn with the Ideal’s fire |
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1405 |
And turn to escape from mortal ignorance. |
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(S 106) |
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The frontiers of the Ignorance shall recede, |
EoS |
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More and more souls shall enter into light, |
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Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear |
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And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame |
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1410 |
And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight |
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And human wills tune to the divine will, |
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These separate selves the Spirit’s oneness feel, |
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These senses of heavenly sense grow capable, |
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The flesh and nerves of a strange ethereal joy |
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1415 |
And mortal bodies of immortality. |
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(S 107) |
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A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell |
EoS |
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And take the charge of breath and speech and act |
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And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns |
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And every feeling a celestial thrill. |
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(S 108) |
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1420 |
Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come |
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Lighting the chambers of the slumbering mind; |
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A sudden bliss shall run through every limb |
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And Nature with a mightier Presence fill. |
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(S 109) |
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Thus shall the earth open to divinity |
|
1425 |
And common natures feel the wide uplift, |
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Illumine common acts with the Spirit’s ray |
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And meet the deity in common things. |
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(S 110) |
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Nature shall live to manifest secret God, |
EoS |
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The Spirit shall take up the human play, |
|
1430 |
This earthly life become the life divine. |
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