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In the kingdom of the Spirit's power and light, As if one who arrived out of infinity's womb He came new-born, infant and limitless And grew in the wisdom of the timeless Child; He was a vast that soon became a Sun.

Above him he saw the flaming Hierarchies, The wings that fold around created Space, The sun-eyed Guardians and the golden Sphinx And the tiered planes and the immutable Lords.

A glorious multiple of one radiant Self, Answering to joy with joy, to love with love, All there were moving mansions of God-bliss; Eternal and unique they lived the One.

Above the Witness and his universe He stood in a realm of boundless silences Awaiting the Voice that spoke and built the worlds.

In a slumber of the voices of the world He of the eternal moment grew aware; His knowledge stripped bare of the garbs of sense Knew by identity without thought or word;

Immersed in voiceless internatal trance The beings that once wore forms on earth sat there In shining chambers of spiritual sleep.

Life was not there, but an impassioned force, Finer than fineness, deeper than the deeps, Felt as a subtle and spiritual power, A quivering out from soul to answering soul

All there was soul or made of sheer soul-stuff; A sky of soul covered a deep soul-ground.

A hidden call to unforeseen delight In the summoning voice of one long-known, well-loved, But nameless to the unremembering mind, It led to rapture back the truant heart.