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In gleaming clarities of amethyst air

The chainless and omnipotent Spirit of Mind

Brooded on the blue lotus of the Idea.

A gold supernal sun of timeless Truth

Poured down the mystery of the eternal Ray

Through a silence quivering with the word of Light

On an endless ocean of discovery.

Far-off he saw the joining hemispheres.

On meditation’s mounting edge of trance

Great stairs of thought climbed up to unborn heights

Where Time’s last ridges touch eternity’s skies

And Nature speaks to the spirit’s absolute.

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But thought nor word can seize eternal Truth:

The whole world lives in a lonely ray of her sun.

In our thinking’s close and narrow lamp-lit house

The vanity of our shut mortal mind

Dreams that the chains of thought have made her ours;

But only we play with our own brilliant bonds;

Tying her down, it is ourselves we tie.

In our hypnosis by one luminous point

We see not what small figure of her we hold;

We feel not her inspiring boundlessness,

We share not her immortal liberty.

Thus is it even with the seer and sage;

For still the human limits the divine:

Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight,

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