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- મોરલી પંડ્યા 

ડિસેમ્બર, ૨૦૧૭

A plan of godhead on the mortal's mould 
Lifting our finite minds to his infinite, 
Touching the moment with eternity. 
This transfiguration is earth's due to heaven: 
A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme: 
His nature we must put on as he put ours; 
We are sons of God and must be even as he: 
His human portion, we must grow divine. 
Our life is a paradox with God for key.
This still remains to be realised.

BOOK I: The Book of Beginnings 67

A summary of the stages of the spirit, 
Its copy of the cosmic hierarchies 
Refashioned in our secret air of self 
A subtle pattern of the universe. 
It is within, below, without, above. 
Acting upon this visible Nature's scheme 
It wakens our earth-matter's heavy doze 
To think and feel and to react to joy; 
It models in us our diviner parts,

Lifts mortal mind into a greater air, 
Makes yearn this life of flesh to intangible aims, 
Links the body's death with immortality's call: 
Out of the swoon of the Inconscience 
It labours towards a superconscient Light. 
If earth were all and this were not in her, 
Thought could not be nor life-delight's response: 
Only material forms could then be her guests 
Driven by an inanimate world-force. 
Earth by this golden superfluity 
Bore thinking man and more than man shall bear;

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 98 99

A brilliant passage for the infallible Flame 
Is driven through gross walls of nerve and brain, 
A Splendour presses or a Power breaks through, 
Earth's great dull barrier is removed awhile, 
The inconscient seal is lifted from our eyes 
And we grow vessels of creative might.

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 108

Heaven's joys might have been earth's if earth were pure. 
There could have reached our divinised sense and heart
Some natural felicity's bright extreme, 
Some thrill of Supernature's absolutes: 
All strengths could laugh and sport on earth's hard roads 
And never feel her cruel edge of pain, 
All love could play and nowhere Nature's shame.

BOOK II: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 123

Flower Name: Helichrysum bracteatum
Strawflower, Golden everlasting. Yellow paper daisy

Significance: Supramental Immortality upon Earth