Mysticism -- Fiction; Supernatural -- Fiction; Virginia -- Fiction
"Yes. All our 'movements' rush into the one. All our vortices approach
with a fearful joy the Great Vortex. The Correlation will be
established, the Summation made. We go to join and strengthen the
Ancient Heavens. The Ancient of Days draws and redeems and fuses and
Ones another layer of his being. Faster and faster our age begins to see
what is happening. The language men use to describe it does not so much
matter. The poet names it Life, Beauty, and Joy; the scientific man says
Knowledge and Use; the philosopher says Energy and Substance in
conscious union; the Hindu says the _SELF_; our peoples say God.... All
one."
They came to the hilltop and stood to look about them. "There is such
joy!" went on Marget. "Pain and pleasure outgrown, now blooms the joy!
'Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' The
being found and the finding. One after another lays hand upon that
world, clings, braces himself, draws himself up and over and finds the
manna lying around him. Joy, wisdom and power! and the taste of them but
begun. Possession still to be possessed--forever and forever!"
They sat beneath the tree and all around sprang the valley and the
mountains and Virginia and the world. "Alive--deathlessly alive! The
valley and the mountains, Virginia and the world!"
Frances spoke. "I know a woman who speaks in the terms of the East. Is
it the Principle of Sensibility--the Buddhic plane?"
"Yes. Atma is yet to arrive. What we see is the light before his face.
When he fully comes that is the Day of the Lord. What all work has been
toward, all toil, all hoping. As Atma rises in us--as Christ rises in
us--comes newer and richer life, fuller and fuller, inner powers and
principalities, thrones and dominions, and their objective garments. But
when WE ARE THE LORD--I know not! There is Light there that is as
darkness to us yet."
The exquisite valley heightened its values throughout, became richer.
The mountains around hung in the eye like the Delectable Mountains.
"If one grows, all things and all places grow with that one?"
"Inevitably so! The wealth is for all."
"The new consciousness that we feel is a pale film to what will be?"
"Yes. A borderland, the islands fringing the New World. But such as it
is it wipes out the old, blind, scattered, little consciousnesses. To
what shall be felt and shall be known it is the one leaf of green, it is
the olive leaf that the dove brings. But before us are enormous growth,
strange and fair adventure, work, joy, love--"
Through the air they felt the ether, through the sunlight they felt the
Great Sun. Light and warmth came to them from the Sun behind the sun. It
touched, it passed, but each time it came they strengthened.
That night by the fire they sat in silence that was full and rich and
understanding. "To-morrow night, here at Sweet Rocket, just Richard and
Marget and Drew--and all the rest of us!"
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