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seeking new knowledge, following the way, |
until at last my SOUL, in great travail, |
broke from its bondage and bounded away. |
Free was I from the bondage of earth-men. |
Free from the body, I flashed through the night. |
Unlocked at last for me was the star-space. |
Free was I from the bondage of night. |
Now to the end of space sought I wisdom, |
far beyond knowledge of finite man. |
Far into space, my SOUL traveled freely |
into infinity's circle of light. |
Strange, beyond knowledge, were some of the planets, |
great and gigantic, beyond dreams of men. |
Yet found I Law, in all of its beauty, working |
through and among them as here among men. |
Flashed forth my soul through infinity's beauty, |
far through space |
I flew with my thoughts. |
Rested I there on a planet of beauty. |
Strains of harmony filled all the air. |
Shapes there were, moving in Order, |
great and majestic as stars in the night; |
mounting in harmony, ordered equilibrium, |
symbols of the Cosmic, like unto Law. |
Many the stars I passed in my journey, |
many the races of men on their worlds; |
some reaching high as stars of the morning, |
some falling low in the blackness of night. |
Each and all of them struggling upward, |
gaining the heights and plumbing the depths, |
moving at times in realms of brightness, |
living through darkness, gaining the Light. |
Know, O man, that Light is thine heritage. |
Know that darkness is only a veil. |
Sealed in thine heart is brightness eternal, |
waiting the moment of freedom to conquer, |
waiting to rend the veil of the night. |
Some I found who had conquered the ether. |
Free of space were they while yet they were men. |
Using the force that is the foundation of ALL things, |
far in space constructed they a planet, |
drawn by the force that flows through the ALL; |
condensing, coalescing the ether into forms, |
that grew as they willed. |
Outstripping in science, they, all of the races, |
mighty in wisdom, sons of the stars. |
Long time I paused, watching their wisdom. |
Saw them create from out of the ether cities |
gigantic of rose and gold. |
Formed forth from the primal element, |
base of all matter, the ether far flung. |
Far in the past, they had conquered the ether, |
freed themselves from the bondage of toil; |
formed in their mind only a picture and swiftly |
created, it grew. |
Forth then, my soul sped, throughout the Cosmos, |
seeing ever, new things and old; |
learning that man is truly space-born, |
a Sun of the Sun, |
a child of the stars. |
Know ye, O man, whatever from ye inhabit, |
surely it is one with the stars. |
Thy bodies are nothing but planets revolving |
around their central suns. |
When ye have gained the light of all wisdom, |
free shall ye be to shine in the ether -- |
one of the Suns that light outer darkness -- |
one of the space-born grown into Light. |
Just as the stars in time lose their brilliance, |
light passing from them in to the great source, |
so, O man, the soul passes onward, |
leaving behind the darkness of night. |
Formed forth ye, from the primal ether, |
filled with the brilliance that |
flows from the source, |
bound by the ether coalesced around, |
yet ever it flames until at last it is free. |
Lift up your flame from out of the darkness, |
fly from the night and ye shall be free. |
Traveled I through the space-time, |