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Canto 10

The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

The Human Ascent

To eternal light and knowledge meant to rise,

Up from man’s bare beginning is our climb;

Out of earth’s heavy smallness we must break,

We must search our nature with spiritual fire:

An insect crawl preludes our glorious flight;

Our human state cradles the future god,

Our mortal frailty an immortal force.

II.10.94-100

Reason and the Infinite

An inconclusive play is Reason’s toil.

Each strong idea can use her as its tool;

Accepting every brief she pleads her case.

Open to every thought, she cannot know....

Absolute her judgments seem but none is sure;

Time cancels all her verdicts in appeal....

A master and slave of stark phenomenon,

She travels on the roads of erring sight

Or looks upon a set mechanical world

Constructed for her by her instruments.

A bullock yoked in the cart of proven fact,

She drags huge knowledge-bales through Matter’s dust

To reach utility’s immense bazaar.

Apprentice she has grown to her old drudge;

An aided sense is her seeking’s arbiter.

This now she uses as the assayer’s stone.

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Great Thoughts

Even now great thoughts are here that walk alone:

Armed they have come with the infallible word

In an investiture of intuitive light

That is a sanction from the eyes of God;

Announcers of a distant Truth they flame

Arriving from the rim of eternity.

A fire shall come out of the infinitudes,

A greater Gnosis shall regard the world

Crossing out of some far omniscience

On lustrous seas from the still rapt Alone

To illumine the deep heart of self and things.

A timeless knowledge it shall bring to Mind,

Its aim to life, to Ignorance its close.

II.10.722-34

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