Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

224 . THE SEVE."i CREATIVE PRINCIPLES. [November
Because God always thought, because the stream
Of Hie effulgent wisdom is hie own
Working from infinite resource within,
Therefore God never lived without some form
Of manif~ated lovelin888, whose beiUD8
Were the intense reflection of Himself.-
Here my thought ends, my finite wisdom faila.
Why should not suns in one continuous chain
Circle through Being's boundleasne88, and be
Without, beyond all finite flights of thought?
Who shall put bounds to God's omnipotence?
Who knows but that beyond the cosmic sphere.
Beyond celestial heavens themselves, beyond
Time and its agee, apace and all its worlds,
And all the spirikpheres that grow from space,
And all the minds that fill those spheres, expand
Unknown thought-spltmdors of the Infinite,
Systems diverse from suns and stars and heaveus,
Powers diverse from angels and from men ?
All theories are thought-forma that the mind
Creates from its own knowledge or its guess.
God never revealed him~~elf in full
And never will. No intellectual form
Ia ahle to receive the Deity
Save as a cry11tal draws from the solar light.
This is my faith, that God reveals Himself
To every man according to his state,
Higher to higher minds, so leaeening dow,n
To the dim verge of reason. I believe
That there are faculties in man that are
Mind-organs for the Infinite to fill,
And that these may unfold without an end,
And multiply without an end. aud all,
Inter-pervaded by one common life,
Inform the soul forever. This I know,
Or, knowing not, believe in as in God;·
But still my thought is circumscribed ; my faith
Being th~ sum of all my added thought8,
And theRe the measure of the active mind."
True, as the poet say!l, here our finite thought ends; for,
when man has removed the resistance of chaotic thought anti
belief, antl has subjugated all his senses. del4irea, appetites, and
passions to the order of the universe, he will soon so develop
that be will continually hear the song of the heavens, or of the
universe, will feel the vibrations of divine love an