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Das Kollektive Savitri-Projekt: Das Buch der Göttlichen Mutter

Savitri Buch 3 Canto 4 (ID ist identisch mit Buchzeile rechts!)

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1500 THEN suddenly there rose a sacred stir. 1
1501 Amid the lifeless silence of the Void 2
1502 In a solitude and an immensity 3
1503 A sound came quivering like a loved footfall 4
1504 Heard in the listening spaces of the soul; 5
1505 A touch perturbed his fibres with delight. 6
1506 An Influence had approached the mortal range, 7
1507 A boundless Heart was near his longing heart, 8
1508 A mystic Form enveloped his earthly shape. 9
1509 All at her contact broke from silence’ seal; 10
1510 Spirit and body thrilled identified, 11
1511 Linked in the grasp of an unspoken joy; 12
1512 Mind, members, life were merged in ecstasy. 13
1513 Intoxicated as with nectarous rain 14
1514 His nature’s passioning stretches flowed to her, 15
1515 Flashing with lightnings, mad with luminous wine. 16
1516 All was a limitless sea that heaved to the moon. 17
1517 A divinising stream possessed his veins, 18
1518 His body’s cells awoke to spirit sense, 19
1519 Each nerve became a burning thread of joy: 20
1520 Tissue and flesh partook beatitude. 21
1521 Alight, the dun unplumbed subconscient caves 22
1522 Thrilled with the prescience of her longed-for tread 23
1523 And filled with flickering crests and praying tongues. 24
1524 Even lost in slumber, mute, inanimate 25
1525 His very body answered to her power. 26
1526 The One he worshipped was within him now: 27
1527 Flame-pure, ethereal-tressed, a mighty Face 28
1528 Appeared and lips moved by immortal words; 29
1529 Lids, Wisdom’s leaves, drooped over rapture’s orbs. 30
1530 A marble monument of ponderings, shone 31
1540 A forehead, sight’s crypt, and large like ocean’s gaze 32
1541 Towards Heaven, two tranquil eyes of boundless thought 33
1542 Looked into man’s and saw the god to come. 34
1543 A Shape was seen on threshold Mind, a Voice 35
1544 Absolute and wise in the heart’s chambers spoke: 36
1545 “O Son of Strength who climbst creation’s peaks, 37
1546 No soul is thy companion in the light; 38
1547 Alone thou standest at the eternal doors. 39
1548 What thou hast won is thine, but ask no more. 40
1549 O Spirit aspiring in an ignorant frame, 41
1550 O Voice arisen from the Inconscient’s world, 42
1551 How shalt thou speak for men whose hearts are dumb, 43
1552 Make purblind earth the soul’s seer-vision’s home 44
1553 Or lighten the burden of the senseless globe? 45
1554 I am the Mystery beyond reach of mind, 46
1555 I am the goal of the travail of the suns; 47
1556 My fire and sweetness are the cause of life. 48
1557 But too immense my danger and my joy. 49
1558 Awake not the immeasurable descent, 50
1559 Speak not my secret name to hostile Time; 51
1560 Man is too weak to bear the Infinite’s weight. 52
1561 Truth born too soon might break the imperfect earth. 53
1562 Leave the all-seeing Power to hew its way: 54
1563 In thy single vast achievement reign apart 55
1564 Helping the world with thy great lonely days. 56
1565 I ask thee not to merge thy heart of flame 57
1566 In the Immobile’s wide uncaring bliss, 58
1567 Turned from the fruitless motion of the years, 59
1568 Deserting the fierce labour of the worlds, 60
1569 Aloof from beings, lost in the Alone. 61
1570 How shall thy mighty spirit brook repose 62
1571 While Death is still unconquered on the earth 63
1572 And Time a field of suffering and pain? 64
1573 Thy soul was born to share the laden Force; 65
1574 Obey thy nature and fulfil thy fate: 66
1575 Accept the difficulty and godlike toil, 67
1590 For the slow-paced omniscient purpose live. 68
1591 The Enigma’s knot is tied in humankind. 69
1592 A lightning from the heights that think and plan, 70
1593 Ploughing the air of life with vanishing trails, 71
1594 Man, sole awake in an unconscious world, 72
1595 Aspires in vain to change the cosmic dream. 73
1596 Arrived from some half-luminous Beyond 74
1597 He is a stranger in the mindless vasts; 75
1598 A traveller in his oft-shifting home 76
1599 Amid the tread of many infinities, 77
1600 He has pitched a tent of life in desert Space. 78
1601 Heaven’s fixed regard beholds him from above, 79
1602 In the house of Nature a perturbing guest, 80
1603 A voyager twixt Thought’s inconstant shores, 81
1604 A hunter of unknown and beautiful Powers, 82
1605 A nomad of the far mysterious Light, 83
1606 In the wide ways a little spark of God. 84
1607 Against his spirit all is in dire league, 85
1608 A Titan influence stops his Godward gaze. 86
1609 Around him hungers the unpitying Void, 87
1610 The eternal Darkness seeks him with her hands, 88
1611 Inscrutable Energies drive him and deceive, 89
1612 Immense implacable deities oppose. 90
1613 An inert Soul and a somnambulist Force 91
1614 Have made a world estranged from life and thought; 92
1615 The Dragon of the dark foundations keeps 93
1616 Unalterable the law of Chance and Death; 94
1617 On his long way through Time and Circumstance 95
1618 The grey-hued riddling nether shadow-Sphinx, 96
1619 Her dreadful paws upon the swallowing sands, 97
1620 Awaits him armed with the soul-slaying word: 98
1621 Across his path sits the dim camp of Night. 99
1622 His day is a moment in perpetual Time; 100
1623 He is the prey of the minutes and the hours. 101
1624 Assailed on earth and unassured of heaven, 102
1625 Descended here unhappy and sublime, 103
1640 A link between the demigod and the beast, 104
1641 He knows not his own greatness nor his aim; 105
1642 He has forgotten why he has come and whence. 106
1643 His spirit and his members are at war; 107
1644 His heights break off too low to reach the skies, 108
1645 His mass is buried in the animal mire. 109
1646 A strange antinomy is his nature’s rule. 110
1647 A riddle of opposites is made his field: 111
1648 Freedom he asks but needs to live in bonds, 112
1649 He has need of darkness to perceive some light 113
1650 And need of grief to feel a little bliss; 114
1651 He has need of death to find a greater life. 115
1652 All sides he sees and turns to every call; 116
1653 He has no certain light by which to walk; 117
1654 His life is a blind-man’s-buff, a hide-and-seek; 118
1655 He seeks himself and from himself he runs; 119
1656 Meeting himself, he thinks it other than he. 120
1657 Always he builds, but finds no constant ground, 121
1658 Always he journeys, but nowhere arrives; 122
1659 He would guide the world, himself he cannot guide; 123
1660 He would save his soul, his life he cannot save. 124
1661 The light his soul had brought his mind has lost; 125
1662 All he has learned is soon again in doubt; 126
1663 A sun to him seems the shadow of his thoughts, 127
1664 Then all is shadow again and nothing true: 128
1665 Unknowing what he does or whither he tends 129
1666 He fabricates signs of the Real in Ignorance. 130
1667 He has hitched his mortal error to Truth’s star. 131
1668 Wisdom attracts him with her luminous masks, 132
1669 But never has he seen the face behind: 133
1670 A giant Ignorance surrounds his lore. 134
1671 Assigned to meet the cosmic mystery 135
1672 In the dumb figure of a material world, 136
1673 His passport of entry false and his personage, 137
1674 He is compelled to be what he is not; 138
1675 He obeys the Inconscience he had come to rule 139
1690 And sinks in Matter to fulfil his soul. 140
1691 Awakened from her lower driven forms 141
1692 The Earth-Mother gave her forces to his hands 142
1693 And painfully he guards the heavy trust; 143
1694 His mind is a lost torch-bearer on her roads. 144
1695 Illumining breath to think and plasm to feel, 145
1696 He labours with his slow and sceptic brain 146
1697 Helped by the reason’s vacillating fires, 147
1698 To make his thought and will a magic door 148
1699 For knowledge to enter the darkness of the world 149
1700 And love to rule a realm of strife and hate. 150
1701 A mind impotent to reconcile heaven and earth 151
1702 And tied to Matter with a thousand bonds, 152
1703 He lifts himself to be a conscious god. 153
1704 Even when a glory of wisdom crowns his brow, 154
1705 When mind and spirit shed a grandiose ray 155
1706 To exalt this product of the sperm and gene, 156
1707 This alchemist’s miracle from plasm and gas, 157
1708 And he who shared the animal’s run and crawl 158
1709 Lifts his thought-stature to the Immortal’s heights, 159
1710 His life still keeps the human middle way; 160
1711 His body he resigns to death and pain, 161
1712 Abandoning Matter, his too heavy charge. 162
1713 A thaumaturge sceptic of miracles, 163
1714 A spirit left sterile of its occult power 164
1715 By an unbelieving brain and credulous heart, 165
1716 He leaves the world to end where it began: 166
1717 His work unfinished he claims a heavenly prize. 167
1718 Thus has he missed creation’s absolute. 168
1719 Half-way he stops his star of destiny: 169
1720 A vast and vain long-tried experiment, 170
1721 An ill-served high conception doubtfully done, 171
1722 The world’s life falters on not seeing its goal,— 172
1723 A zigzag towards unknown dangerous ground 173
1724 Ever repeating its habitual walk, 174
1725 Ever retreating after marches long 175
1740 And hardiest victories without sure result, 176
1741 Drawn endlessly an inconclusive game. 177
1742 In an ill-fitting and voluminous robe 178
1743 A radiant purpose still conceals its face, 179
1744 A mighty blindness stumbles hoping on, 180
1745 Feeding its strength on gifts of luminous Chance. 181
1746 Because the human instrument has failed, 182
1747 The Godhead frustrate sleeps within its seed, 183
1748 A spirit entangled in the forms it made. 184
1749 His failure is not failure whom God leads; 185
1750 Through all the slow mysterious march goes on: 186
1751 An immutable Power has made this mutable world; 187
1752 A self-fulfilling transcendence treads man’s road; 188
1753 The driver of the soul upon its path, 189
1754 It knows its steps, its way is inevitable, 190
1755 And how shall the end be vain when God is guide? 191
1756 However man’s mind may tire or fail his flesh, 192
1757 A will prevails cancelling his conscious choice: 193
1758 The goal recedes, a bourneless vastness calls 194
1759 Retreating into an immense Unknown; 195
1760 There is no end to the world’s stupendous march, 196
1761 There is no rest for the embodied soul. 197
1762 It must live on, describe all Time’s huge curve. 198
1763 An Influx presses from the closed Beyond 199
1764 Forbidding to him rest and earthly ease, 200
1765 Till he has found himself he cannot pause. 201
1766 A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids; 202
1767 Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts: 203
1768 Ignorant, he forms the All-Conscient in his depths, 204
1769 Human, looks up to superhuman peaks: 205
1770 A borrower of Supernature’s gold, 206
1771 He paves his road to Immortality. 207
1772 The high gods look on man and watch and choose 208
1773 Today’s impossibles for the future’s base. 209
1774 His transience trembles with the Eternal’s touch, 210
1775 His barriers cede beneath the Infinite’s tread; 211
1790 The Immortals have their entries in his life: 212
1791 The Ambassadors of the Unseen draw near. 213
1792 A splendour sullied by the mortal air, 214
1793 Love passes through his heart, a wandering guest. 215
1794 Beauty surrounds him for a magic hour, 216
1795 He has visits of a large revealing joy, 217
1796 Brief widenesses release him from himself, 218
1797 Enticing towards a glory ever in front 219
1798 Hopes of a deathless sweetness lure and leave. 220
1799 His mind is crossed by strange discovering fires, 221
1800 Rare intimations lift his stumbling speech 222
1801 To a moment’s kinship with the eternal Word; 223
1802 A masque of Wisdom circles through his brain 224
1803 Perturbing him with glimpses half divine. 225
1804 He lays his hands sometimes on the Unknown; 226
1805 He communes sometimes with Eternity. 227
1806 A strange and grandiose symbol was his birth 228
1807 And immortality and spirit-room 229
1808 And pure perfection and a shadowless bliss 230
1809 Are this afflicted creature’s mighty fate. 231
1810 In him the Earth-Mother sees draw near the change 232
1811 Foreshadowed in her dumb and fiery depths, 233
1812 A godhead drawn from her transmuted limbs, 234
1813 An alchemy of Heaven on Nature’s base. 235
1814 Adept of the self-born unfailing line, 236
1815 Leave not the light to die the ages bore, 237
1816 Help still humanity’s blind and suffering life: 238
1817 Obey thy spirit’s wide omnipotent urge. 239
1818 A witness to God’s parley with the Night, 240
1819 It leaned compassionate from immortal calm 241
1820 And housed desire, the troubled seed of things. 242
1821 Assent to thy high self, create, endure. 243
1822 Cease not from knowledge, let thy toil be vast. 244
1823 No more can earthly limits pen thy force; 245
1824 Equal thy work with long unending Time’s. 246
1825 Traveller upon the bare eternal heights, 247
1840 Tread still the difficult and dateless path 248
1841 Joining the cycles with its austere curve 249
1842 Measured for man by the initiate Gods. 250
1843 My light shall be in thee, my strength thy force. 251
1844 Let not the impatient Titan drive thy heart, 252
1845 Ask not the imperfect fruit, the partial prize. 253
1846 Only one boon, to greaten thy spirit, demand; 254
1847 Only one joy, to raise thy kind, desire. 255
1848 Above blind fate and the antagonist powers 256
1849 Moveless there stands a high unchanging Will; 257
1850 To its omnipotence leave thy work’s result. 258
1851 All things shall change in God’s transfiguring hour.” 259
1852 August and sweet sank hushed that mighty Voice. 260
1853 Nothing now moved in the vast brooding space: 261
1854 A stillness came upon the listening world, 262
1855 A mute immensity of the Eternal’s peace. 263
1856 But Aswapati’s heart replied to her, 264
1857 A cry amid the silence of the Vasts: 265
1858 “How shall I rest content with mortal days 266
1859 And the dull measure of terrestrial things, 267
1860 I who have seen behind the cosmic mask 268
1861 The glory and the beauty of thy face? 269
1862 Hard is the doom to which thou bindst thy sons! 270
1863 How long shall our spirits battle with the Night 271
1864 And bear defeat and the brute yoke of Death, 272
1865 We who are vessels of a deathless Force 273
1866 And builders of the godhead of the race? 274
1867 Or if it is thy work I do below 275
1868 Amid the error and waste of human life 276
1869 In the vague light of man’s half-conscious mind, 277
1870 Why breaks not in some distant gleam of thee? 278
1871 Ever the centuries and millenniums pass. 279
1872 Where in the greyness is thy coming’s ray? 280
1873 Where is the thunder of thy victory’s wings? 281
1874 Only we hear the feet of passing gods. 282
1890 A plan in the occult eternal Mind 283
1891 Mapped out to backward and prophetic sight, 284
1892 The aeons ever repeat their changeless round, 285
1893 The cycles all rebuild and ever aspire. 286
1894 All we have done is ever still to do. 287
1895 All breaks and all renews and is the same. 288
1896 Huge revolutions of life’s fruitless gyre, 289
1897 The new-born ages perish like the old, 290
1898 As if the sad Enigma kept its right 291
1899 Till all is done for which this scene was made. 292
1900 Too little the strength that now with us is born, 293
1901 Too faint the light that steals through Nature’s lids, 294
1902 Too scant the joy with which she buys our pain. 295
1903 In a brute world that knows not its own sense, 296
1904 Thought-racked upon the wheel of birth we live, 297
1905 The instruments of an impulse not our own 298
1906 Moved to achieve with our heart’s blood for price 299
1907 Half-knowledge, half-creations that soon tire. 300
1908 A foiled immortal soul in perishing limbs, 301
1909 Baffled and beaten back we labour still; 302
1910 Annulled, frustrated, spent, we still survive. 303
1911 In anguish we labour that from us may rise 304
1912 A larger-seeing man with nobler heart, 305
1913 A golden vessel of the incarnate Truth, 306
1914 The executor of the divine attempt 307
1915 Equipped to wear the earthly body of God, 308
1916 Communicant and prophet and lover and king. 309
1917 I know that thy creation cannot fail: 310
1918 For even through the mists of mortal thought 311
1919 Infallible are thy mysterious steps, 312
1920 And, though Necessity dons the garb of Chance, 313
1921 Hidden in the blind shifts of Fate she keeps 314
1922 The slow calm logic of Infinity’s pace 315
1923 And the inviolate sequence of its will. 316
1924 All life is fixed in an ascending scale 317
1925 And adamantine is the evolving Law; 318
1940 In the beginning is prepared the close. 319
1941 This strange irrational product of the mire, 320
1942 This compromise between the beast and god, 321
1943 Is not the crown of thy miraculous world. 322
1944 I know there shall inform the inconscient cells, 323
1945 At one with Nature and at height with heaven, 324
1946 A spirit vast as the containing sky 325
1947 And swept with ecstasy from invisible founts, 326
1948 A god come down and greater by the fall. 327
1949 A Power arose out of my slumber’s cell. 328
1950 Abandoning the tardy limp of the hours 329
1951 And the inconstant blink of mortal sight, 330
1952 There where the Thinker sleeps in too much light 331
1953 And intolerant flames the lone all-witnessing Eye 332
1954 Hearing the word of Fate from Silence’ heart 333
1955 In the endless moment of Eternity, 334
1956 It saw from timelessness the works of Time. 335
1957 Overpassed were the leaden formulas of the Mind, 336
1958 Overpowered the obstacle of mortal Space: 337
1959 The unfolding Image showed the things to come. 338
1960 A giant dance of Shiva tore the past; 339
1961 There was a thunder as of worlds that fall; 340
1962 Earth was o’errun with fire and the roar of Death 341
1963 Clamouring to slay a world his hunger had made; 342
1964 There was a clangour of Destruction’s wings: 343
1965 The Titan’s battle-cry was in my ears, 344
1966 Alarm and rumour shook the armoured Night. 345
1967 I saw the Omnipotent’s flaming pioneers 346
1968 Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life 347
1969 Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth; 348
1970 Forerunners of a divine multitude, 349
1971 Out of the paths of the morning star they came 350
1972 Into the little room of mortal life. 351
1973 I saw them cross the twilight of an age, 352
1974 The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn, 353
1975 The great creators with wide brows of calm, 354
1990 The massive barrier-breakers of the world 355
1991 And wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will, 356
1992 The labourers in the quarries of the gods, 357
1993 The messengers of the Incommunicable, 358
1994 The architects of immortality. 359
1995 Into the fallen human sphere they came, 360
1996 Faces that wore the Immortal’s glory still, 361
1997 Voices that communed still with the thoughts of God, 362
1998 Bodies made beautiful by the spirit’s light, 363
1999 Carrying the magic word, the mystic fire, 364
2000 Carrying the Dionysian cup of joy, 365
2001 Approaching eyes of a diviner man, 366
2002 Lips chanting an unknown anthem of the soul, 367
2003 Feet echoing in the corridors of Time. 368
2004 High priests of wisdom, sweetness, might and bliss, 369
2005 Discoverers of beauty’s sunlit ways 370
2006 And swimmers of Love’s laughing fiery floods 371
2007 And dancers within rapture’s golden doors, 372
2008 Their tread one day shall change the suffering earth 373
2009 And justify the light on Nature’s face. 374
2010 Although Fate lingers in the high Beyond 375
2011 And the work seems vain on which our heart’s force was spent, 376
2012 All shall be done for which our pain was borne. 377
2013 Even as of old man came behind the beast 378
2014 This high divine successor surely shall come 379
2015 Behind man’s inefficient mortal pace, 380
2016 Behind his vain labour, sweat and blood and tears: 381
2017 He shall know what mortal mind barely durst think, 382
2018 He shall do what the heart of the mortal could not dare. 383
2019 Inheritor of the toil of human time, 384
2020 He shall take on him the burden of the gods; 385
2021 All heavenly light shall visit the earth’s thoughts, 386
2022 The might of heaven shall fortify earthly hearts; 387
2023 Earth’s deeds shall touch the superhuman’s height, 388
2024 Earth’s seeing widen into the infinite. 389
2025 Heavy unchanged weighs still the imperfect world; 390
2040 The splendid youth of Time has passed and failed; 391
2041 Heavy and long are the years our labour counts 392
2042 And still the seals are firm upon man’s soul 393
2043 And weary is the ancient Mother’s heart. 394
2044 O Truth defended in thy secret sun, 395
2045 Voice of her mighty musings in shut heavens 396
2046 On things withdrawn within her luminous depths, 397
2047 O Wisdom-Splendour, Mother of the universe, 398
2048 Creatrix, the Eternal’s artist Bride, 399
2049 Linger not long with thy transmuting hand 400
2050 Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time, 401
2051 As if Time dare not open its heart to God. 402
2052 O radiant fountain of the world’s delight 403
2053 World-free and unattainable above, 404
2054 O Bliss who ever dwellst deep-hid within 405
2055 While men seek thee outside and never find, 406
2056 Mystery and Muse with hieratic tongue, 407
2057 Incarnate the white passion of thy force, 408
2058 Mission to earth some living form of thee. 409
2059 One moment fill with thy eternity, 410
2060 Let thy infinity in one body live, 411
2061 All-Knowledge wrap one mind in seas of light, 412
2062 All-Love throb single in one human heart. 413
2063 Immortal, treading the earth with mortal feet 414
2064 All heaven’s beauty crowd in earthly limbs! 415
2065 Omnipotence, girdle with the power of God 416
2066 Movements and moments of a mortal will, 417
2067 Pack with the eternal might one human hour 418
2068 And with one gesture change all future time. 419
2069 Let a great word be spoken from the heights 420
2070 And one great act unlock the doors of Fate.” 421
2071 His prayer sank down in the resisting Night 422
2072 Oppressed by the thousand forces that deny, 423
2073 As if too weak to climb to the Supreme. 424
2074 But there arose a wide consenting Voice; 425
2090 The spirit of beauty was revealed in sound: 426
2091 Light floated round the marvellous Vision’s brow 427
2092 And on her lips the Immortal’s joy took shape. 428
2093 “O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. 429
2094 One shall descend and break the iron Law, 430
2095 Change Nature’s doom by the lone spirit’s power. 431
2096 A limitless Mind that can contain the world, 432
2097 A sweet and violent heart of ardent calms 433
2098 Moved by the passions of the gods shall come. 434
2099 All mights and greatnesses shall join in her; 435
2100 Beauty shall walk celestial on the earth, 436
2101 Delight shall sleep in the cloud-net of her hair, 437
2102 And in her body as on his homing tree 438
2103 Immortal Love shall beat his glorious wings. 439
2104 A music of griefless things shall weave her charm; 440
2105 The harps of the Perfect shall attune her voice, 441
2106 The streams of Heaven shall murmur in her laugh, 442
2107 Her lips shall be the honeycombs of God, 443
2108 Her limbs his golden jars of ecstasy 444
2109 Her breasts the rapture-flowers of Paradise. 445
2110 She shall bear Wisdom in her voiceless bosom, 446
2111 Strength shall be with her like a conqueror’s sword 447
2112 And from her eyes the Eternal’s bliss shall gaze. 448
2113 A seed shall be sown in Death’s tremendous hour, 449
2114 A branch of heaven transplant to human soil; 450
2115 Nature shall overleap her mortal step; 451
2116 Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.” 452
2117 As a flame disappears in endless Light 453
2118 Immortally extinguished in its source, 454
2119 Vanished the splendour and was stilled the word. 455
2120 An echo of delight that once was close, 456
2121 The harmony journeyed towards some distant hush, 457
2122 A music failing in the ear of trance, 458
2123 A cadence called by distant cadences, 459
2124 A voice that trembled into strains withdrawn. 460
2140 Her form retreated from the longing earth 461
2141 Forsaking nearness to the abandoned sense, 462
2142 Ascending to her unattainable home. 463
2143 Lone, brilliant, vacant lay the inner fields; 464
2144 All was unfilled inordinate spirit space, 465
2145 Indifferent, waste, a desert of bright peace. 466
2146 Then a line moved on the far edge of calm: 467
2147 The warm-lipped sentient soft terrestrial wave, 468
2148 A quick and many-murmured moan and laugh, 469
2149 Came gliding in upon white feet of sound. 470
2150 Unlocked was the deep glory of Silence’ heart; 471
2151 The absolute unmoving stillnesses 472
2152 Surrendered to the breath of mortal air, 473
2153 Dissolving boundlessly the heavens of trance 474
2154 Collapsed to waking mind. Eternity 475
2155 Cast down its incommunicable lids 476
2156 Over its solitudes remote from ken 477
2157 Behind the voiceless mystery of sleep. 478
2158 The grandiose respite failed, the wide release. 479
2159 Across the light of fast-receding planes 480
2160 That fled from him as from a falling star, 481
2161 Compelled to fill its human house in Time 482
2162 His soul drew back into the speed and noise 483
2163 Of the vast business of created things. 484
2164 A chariot of the marvels of the heavens 485
2165 Broad-based to bear the gods on fiery wheels, 486
2166 Flaming he swept through the spiritual gates. 487
2167 The mortal stir received him in its midst. 488
2168 Once more he moved amid material scenes, 489
2169 Lifted by intimations from the heights 490
2170 And in the pauses of the building brain 491
2171 Touched by the thoughts that skim the fathomless surge 492
2172 Of Nature and wing back to hidden shores. 493
2173 The eternal seeker in the aeonic field 494
2174 Besieged by the intolerant press of hours 495
2175 Again was strong for great swift-footed deeds. 496
2190 Awake beneath the ignorant vault of Night, 497
2191 He saw the unnumbered people of the stars 498
2192 And heard the questioning of the unsatisfied flood 499
2193 And toiled with the form-maker, measuring Mind. 500
2194 A wanderer from the occult invisible suns 501
2195 Accomplishing the fate of transient things, 502
2196 A god in the figure of the arisen beast, 503
2197 He raised his brow of conquest to the heavens 504
2198 Establishing the empire of the soul 505
2199 On Matter and its bounded universe 506
2200 As on a solid rock in infinite seas. 507
2201 The Lord of Life resumed his mighty rounds 508
2202 In the scant field of the ambiguous globe. 509