God : $b Outlines of the new theology, based on facts, science, nature, reason, intuition, revelation and common senseCurtis, T. D. (Thomas Day)
Religion
God : $b Outlines of the new theology, based on facts, science, nature, reason, intuition, revelation and common sense
Curtis, T. D. (Thomas Day)
God -- Poetry; Religious poetry
Of all that is incomprehensible
The name--in English language known as GOD,
The Force of which all forms and things are full--
The Source of Being--otherwise were null
All things that now exist--at whose great nod
The Universes come to light--whose will
Omnipotent rules with Discretion's rod
Of Love and Mercy, Equity and Skill:--
Thou art my theme--into my brain thy light instill!
2.
Others have speculated on this theme;
Then why not I, who feel impelled to try
My feeble power upon the waking dream
Of all the ages? Though presumptuous seem
My efforts, there can be no reason why
The least may not divulge the thoughts that rise
Within the soul so eager to descry,
As wide it opes its ever-straining eyes,
The visions that might daze the more profoundly wise.
3.
Throughout all animated nature we
Behold the presence and the power of Sex;
From Man to lowest forms of Life we see
All things are joined together sexually
For Reproduction; simple or complex,
'Tis Evolution's ever-acting law;
We trace through brutal matter the reflex
Of this all-potent force, and view with awe
The deep conclusions which from it we're forced to draw.
4.
Female and Male all things at last appear;
Thus Sex thro'out all Nature's realms controls;
From lowest upward to the highest sphere,
So far as mortal eye beholdeth here,
Through Sex conjunction everything unfolds;
As positive and negative, when met
In union chemical, the union holds
True to proportions which the law hath set
For simples, and they thus new elements beget.
5.
Together these two forces act as one;
Without the one, the other were as nought;
They are the Heat and Light thrown from the sun
Which warm and vivify the earth as run
The planets in their courses; nor is ought
Upon the face of earth they did not bring;
Through these life-giving rays to us are brought
All earthly blessings--Life and every thing
That blooms and fructifies to which we fondly cling.
6.
Our sun, like every other sun we see,
Is a reflex of its Great Prototype,
The Spirit Sun, from which perpetually
Is drawn all that is possible to be--
That is, all primal principles, when ripe
Are the conditions for them to descend
Into this outer sphere, where Pan's rude pipe
Breaks forth in music, as the forces tend
To consummate through Nature Being's aim and end.
7.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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