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confession of the naËLrre of Goo' for liis spirituai
jou-rney follor.,¡s ihe iabyrlribii oí ihe heart.
lî'lhus he dwells in aII,
Fro¡i lifels minute beginnings¡ uP at last
1o man the collsumnatior:. of thi s scheile
Of bein3, i;he coinpletion of .[his sp]iere
Cf life: v¡hose a¡tributes haci here anc. there
ÌJeen scaiiered orer ihe visibie world before,
Åsking Lo be corobined-, din fragrnen'bs tnearit
To be united. in solne v¡ondrous whole,
Imperfeet c¿ualities throughout creauion,
Suggesting sone one creaüure yet to iaaL;e,
Sorne point r¡ihere all those scaitered Says shoul-cl neet
Convergent in che faculties of ioan.rr /
These lines formulate 'Lhe conclusíon of a ha-zardou.s path
of strivingl the¡i botkr sun'aari ze ancL pro;ohesy" irar from
being vagLre or nebulous, biiey focu-s precisely upon act,ive
r.ela.t,ioriships for r*hich silence :l'-s often tire bei;ter"
apologi si . Indeed-, bhe I Paracelsian 1 viev'¡ oÍ a pre-
orCainecl v¡hole consisting of potentially perfect quali'üies
anci betreficent light is giveir valj-d expression. Ïhe
generabive force of bhi$ expression can be found b)'a
return ûo the eai'lier cantos of tsrovnringts poerû"
lire first definition of God lrhlch llrovnrlngls figure
offers Serves t;o eärphasize the desrrucðive elernent in his
ap,oroach. -
TrGocit lilou art urinC! Unto ihe ¿naster-mirrci
liinci shoulci Ì¡e ;orecious.ll ö
This self-justiíice.'tion pre-figures Le liol,Lta-Lrq of
Paul Valáry: i.i; post"ula.tes ih.e colC- real:1 of pure