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never be free from the pathway of Light. |
One step thou has gained on the long pathway upward, |
infinite now is the mountain of Light. |
Each step thou taketh but heightens the mountain; |
all of thy progress but lengthens the goal. |
Approach ye ever the infinite Wisdom, |
ever before thee recedes the goal. |
Free are ye made now of the Halls of Amenti |
to walk hand in hand with the Lords of the world, |
one in one purpose, working together, |
bring of Light to the children of men." |
Then from his throne came one of the Masters, |
taking my hand and leading me onward, |
through all the Halls of the deep hidden land. |
Led he me through the Halls of Amenti, |
showing the mysteries that are known not to man. |
Through the dark passage, downward he led me, |
into the Hall where site the dark Death. |
Vast as space lay the great Hall before me, |
walled by darkness but yet filled with Light. |
Before me arose a great throne of darkness, |
veiled on it sat a figure of night. |
Darker than darkness sat the great figure, |
dark with a darkness not of the night. |
Before it then paused the Master, speaking |
The Word that brings about Life, saying; |
"Oh, master of darkness, |
guide of the way from Life unto Life, |
before thee I bring a Sun of the morning. |
Touch him not ever with the power of night. |
Call not his flame to the darkness of night. |
Know him, and see him, |
one of our brothers, |
lifted from darkness into the Light. |
Release thou his flame from its bondage, |
free let it flame through the darkness of night." |
Raised then the hand of the figure, |
forth came a flame that grew clear and bright. |
Rolled back swiftly the curtain of darkness, |
unveiled the Hall from the darkness of night. |
Then grew in the great space before me, |
flame after flame, from the veil of the night. |
Uncounted millions leaped they before me, |
some flaming forth as flowers of fire. |
Others there were that shed a dim radiance, |
flowing but faintly from out of the night. |
Some there were that faded swiftly; |
others that grew from a small spark of light. |
Each surrounded by its dim veil of darkness, |
yet flaming with light that could never be quenched. |
Coming and going like fireflies in springtime, |
filled they with space with Light and with Life. |
Then spoke a voice, mighty and solemn, saying: |
"These are lights that are souls among men, |
growing and fading, existing forever, |
changing yet living, through death into life. |
When they have bloomed into flower, |
reached the zenith of growth in their life, |
swiftly then send I my veil of darkness, |
shrouding and changing to new forms of life. |
Steadily upward throughout the ages, growing, |
expanding into yet another flame, |
lighting the darkness with yet greater power, |
quenched yet unquenched by the veil of the night. |
So grows the soul of man ever upward, |
quenched yet unquenched by the darkness of night. |
I, Death, come, and yet I remain not, |
for life eternal exists in the ALL; |
only an obstacle, I in the pathway, |
quick to be conquered by the infinite light. |
Awaken, O flame that burns ever inward, |
flame forth and conquer the veil of the night." |
Then in the midst of the flames |
in the darkness grew there one that |
drove forth the night, flaming, expanding, |
ever brighter, until at last was nothing but Light. |
Then spoke my guide, the voice of the master: |
See your own soul as it grows in the light, |
free now forever from the Lord of the night. |
Forward he led me through many great spaces |
filled with the mysteries of the Children of Light; |
mysteries that man may never yet know of until |