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
What Love suggests Wisdom is prone to do,
As far as laws eternal will permit;
Pervading all and ever working to
Whatever object seen they can pursue,
They find the highest form and type most fit
In Man and Woman, whom they ever aim
To reproduce and then unfold to sit
In higher realms, with Love and Light aflame,
Whence they survey new fields and those through which they came.
34.
The emanations from the Parent Pair
At first take forms of very low degree,
According to conditions, to prepare
The way for higher forms, which ever are
Ascending toward the human, as we see;
The motion of the atom designates
Condition and its due activity;
Sub-union of the elements creates
Varieties of forms and motions, and of states.
35.
Though Being is but one, within its scope
It takes on countless forms, ascending still
To higher harmonies, where new fields ope
To higher beauties and to brighter hope;
As music's octaves rise, progressive will
Ascends from sphere to sphere, thro' endless range;
The higher motion makes each sphere to thrill
With higher Life and glories new and strange,
Perfection nearing through an everlasting change.
36.
"Is this the lot of all?" some one may ask;
"If so, how can there be the room for each
To thus unfold eternally and bask
In glory e'er increasing, with the task
Of guiding all in such a boundless reach?"
Do _my_ thoughts clash with yours, or yours with mine?
Have you not room to think, and act, and teach,
Because the world is full of thoughts that shine
In other brains or firmaments, which them enshrine?
37.
In spirit, there is room enough to think;
The mental realm has no material bound;
To space there is no all-confining brink,
Or wall of adamant against which clink
The thoughts of men and useless fall to ground;
Yet thoughts are things substantial as the rock,
But only tho'ts from higher source are crowned
Supreme and lasting; these, as real, knock
Against our weaker conscious being, shock on shock.
38.
Well the psychologist knows how he can
Create what seem material things unto
The sensitive whom he controls, and plan
Surroundings real to him as God's to Man;
His thoughts, more positive, come into view
As actual objects to the subject's mind;
So in our little realm, by law as true
As Life, our consciousness is all confined,
And we behold God's thoughts in matter's form designed.
39.
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