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Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: 
 if any man hear my voice, and open the 
 door, I will come in to him, and sup with 
 him, and he with me. 
 
SONNETICAL 
 
 NOTES 
 
 ON 
 
 PHILOSOPHY 
 
 BY 
 
 WM. HOWELL WILLIAMS. 
 
THE LIBRARY ©F 
 
 CONGRESS, 
 Two Copifcs Receives 
 
 APR. 28 1902 
 
 CO»>VRI«HT ENTRY 
 
 0LA83 «^XX0. No. 
 
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 OOPY B. 
 
 
 Copyrighted by 
 
 Wm. Howell Williams, 
 
 April, 1901. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Philosophy must knowledge be, 
 Hence knowledge is philosophy. 
 
 It matters not what savant say 
 
 If somehow knowledge comes man's way. 
 
 Supposing can be only fun, 
 And knowledge never so begun. 
 
 With supposition's wand laid by 
 Hume, Berkley, Kant and Hegel fly. 
 
 Nay! single, several, or all. 
 Together taken they appall. 
 
 Philosophers need not agree, 
 Still is philosophy to be. 
 
All knowledge is on being cast: 
 The being first and knowledge last. 
 
 But note, ''The first shall be the last 
 And last shall be the first" ere cast. 
 
 Such knowledge only consciousness 
 In case of being under stress. 
 
 All other were mere vanity, 
 Save, sadly, 'tis profanity. 
 
 Though Being ever is to seem. 
 Existence never is a dream. 
 
 Condition all existence wake. 
 Sensation for the being take. 
 
 Conditions are relations blent. 
 So several show single bent. 
 
 Relations unrevealed compound 
 Conditions that sensation bound. 
 
To senses fashioned but to feel . 
 A semblance only can appeal. 
 
 Existence, hence, persistency 
 Of some conditionality. 
 
 Persistence, very texture, hence, 
 Of every experience. 
 
 Conditions only semblance own 
 By well concealed relations shown. 
 
 The actual in semblance spelt 
 Awake perceptions never felt. 
 
 Perception we characterize 
 In claiming to philosophize. 
 
 Sensation having done its part 
 Unseen relation lends its art. 
 
 Its language never being made 
 The Actual I can't parade. 
 
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 in fact no language now exists 
 Save tongue to tell of what persists. 
 
 Relations unfelt feeling blends 
 And ideas existence lends. 
 
 As semblance of condition they 
 Like semblance of relation stay. 
 
 Though both as semblance only wrought, 
 A deathless being gains the thought. 
 
 The realm of all relation can't 
 Recall a thought it once has lent. 
 
 The mountain, world or universe, 
 But never thought it can disperse. 
 
 The working part relation's role 
 All being what relation dole. 
 
 For like conditions old or new 
 Like semblance is forever true. 
 
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 For like relations only speak 
 Why like conditions never freak. 
 
 Relations ideas, hence, mould, 
 And thus philosophy is told. 
 
 All Being is on dying bent, 
 
 And knowledge yields no nutriment. 
 
 In thought, a stuff of deathless part. 
 Relation works this plastic art. 
 
 Sensation blent with idea 
 
 As consciousness it makes appear. 
 
 Philosophy, all knowledge, hence, 
 Condition of experience. 
 
 In consciousness experience 
 Is manifesting prescience. 
 
 In prescience experience 
 Establishes thought permanence. 
 
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 Nor need eventuation solve 
 All prescience assume to prove. 
 
 Beginning nor the end of time 
 Eventuation need not chime. 
 
 Time being but persistency 
 Of some conditionality. 
 
 Sensation notes persistency 
 
 And time existence gains thereby. 
 
 Nor length nor breadth nor depth of space 
 Need an eventuation trace. 
 
 Space being but consistency 
 Whereof there is persistency. 
 
 So wide, yet narrow still, enough, 
 To mirror all in one brain stuff. 
 
 Ere Prescience eventuate 
 The Absolute must for it wait. 
 
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 With Absolute Philosophy 
 Awake from dreamless lethargy. 
 
 With Absolute Philosophy 
 
 Will end the dream like pageantry. 
 
 With absoluteness hedging in 
 Sensation must end or begin. 
 
 On prescience as consciousness 
 The absolute will ever press. 
 
 As property, we mortals say, 
 Who mystery would put away. 
 
 As unconditioned it will be 
 Inclusive of Divinity. 
 
 And out of man's experience 
 Divinity shape prescience. 
 
 Each perfectly see it is so 
 And yet the fool to logic go. 
 
-14- 
 
 He only taking in as sent 
 Away will reason increment. 
 
 Woe unto reasoners, said He, 
 Fools, liars, hypocrites to be. 
 
 A philosophical refrain 
 
 So perfect, meeting yet disdain. 
 
 "Come unto me and I will give 
 You rest," He said to all who live. 
 
 But spoke in vain, for as before 
 The simple truth craft tangled sore. 
 
 Pride and its speculation take 
 Them all to bell, bead, book or fake. 
 
 Some Mahomet or may-be church 
 Still teaching leave Christ in the lurch. 
 
 Look at the lilies of the field 
 
 Said He, lo! nothing thence did yield. 
 
-15- 
 
 The lilies still are telling plain, 
 Organic things all joining strain. 
 
 We all are here without dispute 
 By ruling of an Absolute. 
 
 To-morrow needs no heed, said He, 
 And straight all speculators be. 
 
 Swear not, and man tried not to curse! 
 While ever vowing to do worse. 
 
 The idle oath, as bubble burst, 
 Leaves everything as at first. 
 
 The vowing, as will-power known. 
 Is root of ev'ry evil grown. 
 
 Not faith but knowledge would lead man, 
 Did he himself but see as can. 
 
 No argument imposing stay 
 
 On world from childhood passed away. 
 
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 Blind led by blind, the Christ did say, 
 Will meet disaster on the way. 
 
 The voice still cries in wilderness: 
 Repent and take a consciousness. 
 
 To save all men unconsciousness 
 Died John the Baptist in distress. 
 
 To give mankind a consciousness 
 Lived Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 
 
 The simple truth to be create 
 And not we ourselves try to make. 
 
 In Reason man himself preferred, 
 Hence reason finds the truth absurd. 
 
 never man by Adam fell. 
 
 But from himself needs saving well. 
 
 False logic often and again 
 
 Most monstrous fables long sustain. 
 
-17- 
 
 A Newton like a Moses dreamed, 
 And many fancies real seemed. 
 
 The poets ever widen breach 
 Through which vain supposition reach. 
 
 Fair sentiment enthralls them all 
 And hides the truth so well withal. 
 
 Behold the chemist pry and smile, 
 In fancy knowing as a child. 
 
 Lord Kelvin fig'ring out the sun. 
 In fancy pulls a temple down. 
 
 For fancy never room be found 
 Where there is nothing not profound. 
 
 Ere was condition manifest 
 The unconditioned was at rest. 
 
 Relations of rest with unrest 
 Hence did condition manifest. 
 
-18— 
 
 To such relation specify 
 We use the word velocity. 
 
 Velocity sole history 
 
 Of uncondition's mystery. 
 
 A mystery sensation feels 
 When to itself for truth appeals. 
 
 The mystery which consciousness 
 Must grasp in place of nothingness. 
 
 Relation through condition place 
 The phantom we as matter chase. 
 
 Not substance but condition we 
 On looking out shall learn to see. 
 
 As form manifestation take 
 What verily relations make. 
 
 Sensation's fond reality 
 Existing still in verity. 
 
—19- 
 
 In verity of passing slow 
 
 To what with greater speed must go. 
 
 To consciousness reality 
 A manifesting Deity. 
 
 The proposition absolute: 
 Humanity shall evolute. 
 
 To act an earthly part is, hence, 
 In conscious being an offence. 
 
 With wonder any knew of old 
 The mission of the Christ is told. 
 
 As thought in having deathless part 
 Is free of Deity from start. 
 
 And image on a consciousness 
 Is able to make deep impress. 
 
 Impressions of an earthly sort 
 Deface what evolution wrought. 
 
-20- 
 
 'Twas happy never true to say 
 The devil mischief comes to play. 
 
 Invention of a reason did 
 What fabled satan said to bid. 
 
 No deity would reason plan 
 
 To lead estray its creature man. 
 
 Nor maker dare his duty shirk 
 
 And leave to chance what he should work. 
 
 All know these things are true in fact 
 And yet accordingly none act. 
 
 .Self-pride with selfishness lie and 
 Uncharitableness withstand. 
 
 Till worldly kingdom grown so bold 
 Is something fearful to behold. 
 
 The humble who now sigh for rest 
 
 A strife, mart, state or church oppress. 
 
-21- 
 
 Still stands a priestcraft militant 
 For what as reasoners they want. 
 
 While seedling wisdom Christ did plant 
 Stands withered, forgotten, distant. 
 
 The curse, if be a curse, on man. 
 Is simply to understand. 
 
 What punishment do they deserve 
 The human reason would observe. 
 
 The foolish question to repeat 
 What justice so-called sinners mete. 
 
 Not one, but all, or none at all, 
 Heaven's kingdom must enthrall. 
 
 A single being left to fate 
 
 A Heaven's host would give to hate. 
 
 Bare sufferers, not sinners bare, 
 Dependent creatures like men are. 
 
-22 
 
 The evil seen, though truthfully 
 Unsought, was wrought by Deity. 
 
 To Deity will knowledge trace 
 Conditions all of human race. 
 
 The errant, deathless thought, now free, 
 From Deity get liberty. 
 
 All evil will in time disperse 
 As evolution works reverse. 
 
 Though evolution is so slow, 
 An endless time it has to go. 
 
 One day of Christ's philosophy 
 Would subjugate propensity. 
 
 The end behold, in knowledge wrought. 
 Is kingdom Heaven long had sought. 
 
 Who enters here leaves hope behind. 
 And bows his head to what designed. 
 
—23- 
 
 In taking Heaven's kingdom find 
 "All other things" to him inclined. 
 
 Who thinks will pause, who feels will go, 
 And either travel far, I trow. 
 
-24 
 
 The lilies still are telling plain, 
 Organic things all joining strain: 
 
 The end, behold, in knowledge wrought, 
 Is kingdom Heaven long had sought. 
 
 Who enters here leaves hope behind, 
 And bows his head to what designed. 
 
 In taking Heaven's kingdom find 
 All other things to him inclined. 
 
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 Sonnetical Notes on Philosophy < 
 
-26- 
 
 I. 
 
 While man trains up the child in way men go, 
 It goes without the saying that man's way 
 In life convention only will display, 
 
 As each one by himself can surely know; 
 
 Hence may these notes that light of rush-light throw 
 Where glares, so-called, civilization's day. 
 Without night's darkness chasing once away. 
 
 Perchance, as simple truth, for some one glow: 
 
 If seen the curse, if be a curse, on man 
 Is taxing self to understand, amid 
 
 Environment that ever keeps its place, 
 What shape may take his life, if any can, 
 That haunting foolishness alone not bid 
 Him to endure, with pain, but for disgrace. 
 
—27- 
 
 11. 
 
 Man's place is truth that makes no sign, but is, 
 Which man, who seek a sign where is no sign. 
 Will ever overlook till forced repine 
 
 In dumb despair since nothingness is his. 
 For other than what is may not say 'tis 
 But to impose on blind a fool's design 
 
 As thorns about the brow of Christ -define 
 
 Not him, but those who mock, with emphasis: 
 
 Less puncto see and pundit silent pass 
 Mankind from truth will ever wander on 
 
 Since never earthly learned can know the truth. 
 Each for himself must struggle from the mass 
 Less absolute, as absolute, be gone 
 
 And leave the world to manners all uncouth. 
 
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 III. 
 
 What is, has been, or may be will comprise 
 What living men know and philosophy 
 As knowledge sum, whatever it may be. 
 
 But other showing man as knowledge prize 
 And actual of value all deprived. 
 Whence knowledge once a sensibility 
 Of a present conditionality 
 
 Must helpless self-persistence enterprise: 
 
 Among a numberless as useless crew 
 Of fancies earthly born that mocking scorn 
 Intrusion of celestially born truth, 
 And true philosophy can little do 
 
 As struggling light of a dawning morn 
 In lifting darkness from life yet in youth. 
 
-29— 
 
 IV. 
 
 To knowledge be, the knowing must assize, 
 Some truth that actual persistence holds 
 To an existence in time, young or old: 
 
 Moreover such persistence must apprise 
 
 Man's being of condition that arise 
 
 When unrevealed relations blent unfold 
 The things we as reality behold. 
 
 And not what human reason may surmise: 
 
 Whence come as from some hidden source 
 The baseless fabric filling human mind 
 As mummery of knowledge never known. 
 As if in mere supposing lay resource 
 
 Of knowledge lacking helpless human kind 
 If tardy seem their maker's method grown. 
 
—30— 
 
 The mystery complexity betrayed 
 
 In harking backward to relations blent 
 In manner several show single bent 
 
 As semblance of condition on parade 
 
 That life's reality might be displayed, 
 Resolves to mystery of one intent 
 Found permeating every event 
 
 For obedience nothing should evade: 
 
 Wherefore if man evade he gains no end 
 
 That knowledge can to consciousness propose 
 As worthy suifering its quest insure, 
 Since no philosophy will course defend 
 
 Of outcast one whom reason make suppose 
 Self-effort only welfare can secure. 
 
-31— 
 
 VI. 
 
 While being as a semblance of unshown 
 
 Relation in condition blent impress 
 
 Sensation, it in turn will being stress 
 And a third being thus existence own; 
 Which, when as conscious state of being known, 
 
 An endless thirst for knowledge will unbless 
 
 Till rightful obedience it address 
 To absolute condition whence 'twas blown: 
 
 To flower into knowing creature man 
 According to design creative will 
 
 Disclosed in structure of the universe. 
 Whence will philosophy, since knowledge, ban 
 Presumption that by mere supposing fill 
 
 The world with learning namelessly perverse. 
 
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 VII. 
 
 That fair imagination paints a place 
 
 Delusion haunts, and little wonder ware 
 Poor mortals never of the meager fare 
 
 They barter birthright for when fancy chase; 
 
 That absolute condition will not trace 
 
 Again the pathway none have trodden bare; 
 Nor absolute philosophy declare 
 
 That ever guidance led a willful race: 
 
 Perhaps fools, liars, hypocrites ignore, 
 
 Or pride may shorten sight to present ease, 
 But the ''damned spot" doth not for this eiface, 
 Nor is there here ''a mind disease" to cure, 
 But vanity that silly fancy please. 
 
 And, lo! ''the poor" is then the human race. 
 
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 VIII. 
 
 Relation in creative scheme suffice 
 
 The universal work so well perform 
 
 That understand none mystery of form, 
 Wherein is unity concealed device 
 That aggregations numberless entice, 
 
 Obedient creatures all, to swarm 
 
 Confines wide universal, saving norm 
 Man, sold by self to self for paltry price: 
 
 voiceless, ever saying wherefrom all 
 
 Of earth have birth and mirth, or dearth, or worth, 
 Tell wayward man why simple being is. 
 That he too knowing whereto he is called 
 May boldly trusting to his worthy birth 
 Find heaven's kingdom is for taking his. 
 
—34— 
 
 IX. 
 
 Formation in each aggregation speak 
 
 For being monody monotonous 
 
 In ever saying truth is obvious; 
 Yet! Reason, an imagination's freak, 
 Persuading creatures they are strong when weak. 
 
 And ever making knowledge dubious 
 
 To prove contention of the curious 
 Who vitals tear from life with preying beak: 
 
 Not powers, principalities or age, 
 As hypocrites pretend believe prevail 
 
 O'er man, but only self-pride bite him sore 
 Whose pestilent infection naught assuage 
 Till earth to earth and dust to dust avail 
 Slow evolution wrong to make no more. 
 
-35- 
 
 X. 
 
 Though aggregation form, as semblance place, 
 Where mere sensation will substantial find 
 Unseen relation force conditioned mind 
 
 Form aggregation ever set to face 
 
 Perception shall be as fixed for the case; 
 Then, saving mystery itself defined. 
 Will nothing more be seen by living kind 
 
 Who portion theirs each take with kindred race: 
 
 As absoluteness hedging in mankind 
 Is demarkation unmistakable 
 
 Of bounds that earthly creatures cannot pass, 
 So, likewise, will their knowledge be defined 
 As consciousness indistinguishable 
 
 Among conditions that each encompass. 
 
-36— 
 
 XL 
 
 The genesis of consciousness led to 
 
 A method of relation unrevealed 
 
 Withholds from pride the self esteem concealed 
 In postulate that so-called reason show, 
 The truth without a motor aid bestow; 
 
 Moreover would a guideless reason yield 
 
 A knowledge spurious to lead afield 
 The hapless creature trusting thereto: 
 
 While amount of false logic man's mind stand 
 Betray besotting influence of sin 
 
 So-called, against the Holy Ghost, so named, 
 Or, otherwise, mere consciousness demand 
 Implicit be obedience within 
 
 A scheme designing-will for all had framed. 
 
-37 
 
 XIL 
 
 The life of mere imagination rage 
 
 Where actual condition should subsist 
 And man's entire obedience enlist 
 
 Where never one its service now engage; 
 
 And this has been since recollection's age 
 The obvious reverse of aught that wist 
 Creation's care among the stretching list 
 
 Of generations history can page: 
 
 Behold! He still stands knocking at the door; 
 If any man will open unto him, 
 
 Then life will enter in and with him sup. 
 And absolute philosophy before 
 
 Your mind holds light (that never any trim) 
 That shows held to your lips a poisoned cup. 
 
Xlil. 
 
 If seems Relation and Condition named 
 Causation bidding being to exist 
 And their awaiting pleasure to persist. 
 
 Infirmity of language be ashamed 
 
 If thus creative power is defamed 
 
 While consciousness that reason fails to hist 
 Knows primal one has only cause to list; 
 
 If need be any praised or any blamed: 
 
 Whence, one assembly must as whole ordain 
 
 And vice of reason thus make obvious 
 
 If nonsense is co-ordinating cause; 
 
 Since speed no bar receiving rate maintain 
 
 Self-pride in creature is made dubious, 
 
 Perchance, pretension never giving pause.. 
 
-39- 
 
 XIV. 
 
 As mortal being fact of being con 
 
 It sees all enter life without recourse 
 And all continue it without resource 
 
 A meaningless as endless, wobegone 
 
 Procession from and to unknown beyond, 
 Whereas philosophy perceives in force 
 A lawful as an orderly concourse 
 
 Of being that an Actual lead on: 
 
 From absolute, whence all conditions come, 
 To absolute, whither all ever go, 
 
 Without exception, question or a doubt. 
 And consciousness of interval will sum 
 All knowing any being ever know 
 
 When overgrowth of fancy shall die out. 
 
-40— 
 
 XV. 
 
 If any saw at any time he saw 
 
 Cbwn Reason showing consciousness as act 
 Where absolute philosophy gave fact 
 
 Since truth is once and never more by law: 
 
 If language that synonymous make flaw 
 
 And act is fact and fact is act, distract 
 Poor clown, his cap and bells will still attract 
 
 And pot will boil however gained applause: 
 
 Since words that will define no state are dead 
 And truth is not sustained by earthly food 
 All living sight, all living truth has lost; 
 In vain imagination o'er all spread 
 
 A blinding veil the sightless ever brood 
 
 On what the endless round they tread has cost. 
 
-41— 
 
 XVI. 
 
 If granted all that Kidd virtually said 
 In Social Evolution, that man vow 
 To super-natural things only bow, 
 
 Still would imagination be outspread 
 
 Entangling net wherein man's feet will tread: 
 No nature, hence, nor super-nature row, 
 Where absolute philosophy saw how 
 
 An unconditioned all conditioned bred: 
 
 And less to absolute all things man trace 
 He never will be other than the myth 
 That now imagination bids exist: 
 Nor less to absolute all things shall face 
 Will consciousness find actual wherewith 
 To banish imagery that thus persist. 
 
-42- 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Admit mere reason regulates desire 
 
 Allays dull care, dismisses idle fear, 
 Restrains vain hope, apprise of danger near, 
 
 And generally life, that wants inspire, 
 
 Forwards against whatever bids retire. 
 
 Defines man's rights, appraises holdings dear, 
 Describes a wrong, forbids a seeking drear. 
 
 And decks temporal life in best attire: » 
 
 Lest (sic): "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: 
 "If any man hear my voice, and will open 
 "The door, I will come into him and will 
 "Sup with him, and he with me." Quoad hoc: 
 Is reason sin to sup with self be token 
 That, metaphorically, make life nill. 
 
-48- 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 While Actual essential mystery 
 
 In all, no semblance of condition sown 
 Wide broadcast as the Universal Shown 
 
 Proclaims sensation ever did it see. 
 
 Where mystery meets sensibility 
 
 Both cease what seem (or blend we say) and lone 
 Perception from creative hand has flown, 
 
 To aggregate in time humanity: 
 
 Flights, never faltering, chance any one 
 Meet mystery and other flights come still, 
 And so on till creation's cup run o'er, 
 Perchance, a flight shall meet like self all's done 
 If aggregates self -pride as mortal will 
 That must forth lonely wander ever more. 
 
-44- 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Awake, behold! The Actual within 
 
 Perception, shunning sight as timid hart, 
 Mysterious constituent impart 
 
 That will a sensibility new coin 
 
 When meeting humble consciousness to join. 
 Of life above mere animative part 
 Of any creature that creative art 
 
 Designed to live in world that it see in: 
 
 Whence seeing humble ourselves all the while 
 As sure mysterious constituent 
 Obedient awaits humility. 
 Alas, self-pride mankind can so beguile 
 That foolish vanity so evident 
 Can under ban put all humanity. 
 
-45— 
 
 XX. 
 
 Perception came to parting of the ways 
 When ever did ill or well first deride 
 Mankind for one or other to decide 
 
 Till he forgot how all his many days 
 
 A leading hand had led, as through a maze, 
 
 His heedless steps, bent ear to subtle pride 
 Soft whispering that he himself could ride 
 
 The waves that break in vast eternal haze: 
 
 And once mankind on portless voyage sail 
 With mystery Perception hid on board, 
 An outcast stow away that none perceive. 
 From age to age are blown without avail 
 
 Less chance that stow away to sight restored 
 As captain port of consciousness achieve. 
 
-46- 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Perception, which mankind so highly prize, 
 Not only consciousness, but, sportively, 
 Awoke, existence shown by imagery, 
 
 So well, where mare perceptions blent apprise 
 
 Of semblances no creative plan comprise, 
 Though once they led man in idolatry 
 And now lead him in mere profanity 
 
 Of life creation's plan should enterprise: 
 
 And thus profane world generation on 
 To generation goes though plainly will 
 Each generation see 'tis mummery. 
 Since life from whence creative purpose gone 
 Is empty mockery that can fulfill 
 No end defined in any summary. 
 
-47- 
 
 XXII. 
 
 Since images that perception yield mankind 
 
 Will represent indifferently all, 
 
 Or any form of semblance, actual 
 Or visionary, as alike, man's mind, 
 As a collection of them, needs must find 
 
 The worth of its store is provisional 
 
 On only garnering conditional 
 States, absolute condition has defined: 
 
 And obviously, even being man, 
 
 As a creation, corresponds with mere 
 Predominance of the true or false kind 
 Of images in a brain, and only can 
 He be create which actual uprear. 
 
 Since knowledge only forms the human kind. 
 
-48- 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 Granted, faltering of human life in course 
 Created plan for it defined is seen 
 As incongruity enough to wean 
 
 Man's reason from trust that initial source 
 
 Unfailingly him and all issue forth, 
 
 Still will a conscious life recoil from scene 
 That independent entity will mean 
 
 However stioutly reason may discourse: 
 
 Creation may include as incomplete 
 Full many a scheme, evolution slow 
 Will bring symmetrical development: 
 And greater far than halting human feet 
 As open inconsistency will show 
 
 While not disclosing growing increment. 
 
XXIV. 
 
 While actual conditions disappear . 
 
 And prove Relation has mobility, 
 
 Conditioned once, Idea quantity 
 Becomes, that to perception ever clear 
 Dismemberment of state need never fear. 
 
 And possible, hence, that perversity 
 
 Of being now displaces humanity 
 Creation contemplated on earth to rear: 
 
 A world of living creatures wholly glad 
 To live and do obediently all 
 
 Its purpose unrevealed to them required. 
 And world would be so now if only had 
 Man knowledge that philosophy will call 
 A consciousness of Truth as it transpired. 
 
-50- 
 
 XXV. 
 
 Creative contemplation though aside 
 
 Be set, tomorrow stands as yesterday, 
 But helpless being willfully astray 
 
 Not only labor of returning stride 
 
 Endure, but all the pain of wounded pride, 
 And discontent, that only to obey 
 From disobedient will put away, 
 
 While violated will to do still abide: 
 
 Were reason attribute to human kind 
 No reasoner would knowingly contend 
 That self-sufficient creature could exist. 
 But logic only serves the wholly blind 
 As pride is to beginning or the end 
 Of life in which awhile it may persist. 
 
-51- 
 
 XXVL, 
 
 Unseen, Relation burden solely bear 
 
 Whenever a condition state display 
 
 That actual existence will betray, 
 Perversity of being, hence, may dare 
 Inquisitiveness face without a care, 
 
 And whimsical propensity let play 
 
 Since knowledge never will attempt portray 
 So mythical a feature as despair: 
 
 That characterize worldly planning man 
 Extemporized but for ascenic scene 
 And not for an abiding entity, 
 Whence vainly spending being on his plan 
 
 And trusting never strength on which must lean 
 All who go faceward to eternity. 
 
-52- 
 
 XXVll. 
 
 Within the house of Rimmon manners strange 
 Mankind are making bow, as Naaman did 
 When, knowing that within his breast is hid 
 
 Dissent which shown a custom would derange, 
 
 He bowed, lest master's favor he estrange. 
 They bow in mummery, while Truth amid 
 Their multitude the cerenjony bid 
 
 See the desecration of its earthly grange: 
 
 A sight, where worldly kingdom earth has grown 
 Displace awhile that heaven planned for time 
 
 And mumming figures that mumm are self -create, 
 But in a heaven's kingdom overthrown 
 
 Poor Truth, like manhood wasting all its prime, 
 Sees cast away wherein was all estate. 
 
-53- 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 When mindful how no inconsistency 
 
 Creative plan perplex, man crowding far 
 Within the house of Rimmon maze lest jar 
 
 The firm foundation of Philosophy. 
 
 But then recall immovability 
 
 As propositional all else to bar 
 Till fabrications universal are 
 
 Bereft of seeming certainty: 
 
 Forced reconcile anotnalous event 
 
 Of two and rival kingdoms claiming earth 
 To policy blank opposite in plan 
 Remembering how thought is freedom lent 
 As image unconstrained from very birth 
 By exigency to endower man. 
 
•54- 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 A proposition: prepositional 
 
 To imagery of presence in sense felt 
 Of actuality: is ever spelt, 
 
 By consciousness, as abstract actual: 
 
 Persisting unperceived as well, withal. 
 
 As when perceived: an image nothing pelt 
 Against without itself is backward dealt 
 
 As if by something quite perpetual: 
 
 Whence seen non-actual relation come 
 As mystery unveiled to simulate 
 In imagery that actual won't deal: 
 And budding thence has blossomed forth till dome 
 Of all creation cannot estimate 
 
 Imaginary being that existence steal. 
 
-55- 
 
 XXX. 
 
 Would consciousness to wantonness give pause 
 Mankind might hear despite repressing hush 
 A voice significant speak in mere gush 
 
 How break and still retake His any laws; 
 
 Hear fountains say, "We leap not for applause 
 Who wish to kiss the sun," and then to blush 
 And backward fall to where waters flush 
 
 The pools that overflow and oceans cause: 
 
 Who, when with force behind rejoice, till find. 
 Resistance greater is before obey, 
 And quickly turn to possibility. 
 And teach that never any of mankind 
 An absolute condition will gainsay. 
 And conscious be of mere security. 
 
—56- 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 Within the house of Rimmon, an one ween, 
 Is instance of imaginary state, 
 Whereon creation's self bid patient wait. 
 
 Displacing actual now to be seen: 
 
 Where vanity in man incites to preen 
 
 Himself awhile the loitering slow gait 
 Of evolution seeks an open gate 
 
 In barrier that now from future screen: 
 
 Whereon worldly wisdom so-called might note 
 How futile efforts be that abiding none 
 But idle break upon eternity. 
 That men in finding themselves so remote 
 From any useful purpose to be done 
 Will turn again to their paternity. 
 
-57- 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 When propositional pre-absolute 
 
 Proud worldly wisdom ignore and affront 
 While endless quest according what be wont, 
 
 Though evident beginning is the root 
 
 Whence any end whatever be will shoot, 
 
 It characterize those as blind who shunt 
 Themselves thus, from creative plan, and brunt 
 
 Of mere existence bear alike the brute: 
 
 Creative vanity misleading all 
 
 To trust pride's aimless guidance rather than 
 Endure humility designed for them 
 And choosing thus imaginary thrall 
 Become no less imaginary man 
 
 Though seeing not themselves alone condemn, 
 
-58— 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 As all creation will pause while the man 
 Imaginary riots on its bourse, 
 Philosophy, as knowledge will, of course, 
 
 Since knowledge only does creative plan. 
 
 As idle stand, with vacant hands, till clan 
 Imaginary shall expand by force 
 Of inexhaustibleness of its source 
 
 To myth, and life goes on as it began: 
 
 Whence knowledge only be the truth exposed 
 And solely truth escapes creative art 
 In execution of creator's plan. 
 Thence while imaginary learning grows 
 As sure attenuation does its part. 
 Till, blossomed, fades imaginary man. 
 
-59— 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 If force sustaining imagery, behight 
 
 Propensity, stay every problem drought, 
 What brought confused vitality about; 
 
 Philosophy, for problem has no light. 
 
 Its only gift complete in single sight. 
 
 All imcomplete, is past its finding out, 
 Lest it become imaginary lout. 
 
 And darkness prove to be another night: 
 
 Than rhythm absent, where no sensation find 
 And fell confusion, imagery has found. 
 Spreads over dead persistence like a pall, 
 O'er which, alone, light thought, as something blind 
 Within what may imagination bound. 
 In circling flight flies on without recall. 
 
-60- 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 A propositional abstractional 
 
 Remain, that proposition may include 
 An indisputable, as well exclude 
 
 Disputable, in sphere provisional 
 
 To stand immovable conditional. 
 
 Whence comprehension never to conclude 
 But ever know what thereto did intrude 
 
 Lest venturing become habitual: 
 
 As in imaginary personage 
 
 Usurp the functionality bestowed 
 On creature by a providential hand, 
 And rashly venturing themselves engage 
 
 To journey through their lives without a road 
 That they can see or guide they can command. 
 
61- 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 Abstractional, as propositional, 
 
 Is truth which all mankind perceive who know, 
 While being is to seem, condition show: 
 
 In seeming all they will find actual: 
 
 But truth hies far beyond that temporal 
 Man, metaphisically, finds where grow, 
 Since aught or naught will equally bestow 
 
 The absolute's co-eval principle: 
 
 While truth is evidence condition give 
 Condition evidence it to mankind 
 As mutually other each define. 
 In which is sense, in which is Christ said live. 
 And speak in sense in which a man will find. 
 Or lose a life as gift, or not, devine. 
 
-62- 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 See: chaotic abyss Truth only fill; 
 
 Whence spectral of mere nothingness it chase 
 
 Away; and then imagination face 
 To scorn its shameful offering: free will. 
 All not true, putting bullish thought to grill, 
 
 For ever may imagination trace, 
 
 And lead through nameless misery the race 
 Of man unconscious ever, of truth, still: 
 
 Rescued: so simple is the problem life 
 Present in living mortal man, none goad 
 Will wait, concerning thing so obvious. 
 Since are pride, selfishness, and will found rife, 
 Where only can imagination load 
 Imaginary creed on curious. 
 
XXXVIII. 
 
 Bare imagery, perception wist of old, 
 Is abstract propositional that man 
 Originate, what seem do under ban, 
 
 Consideration force relax, less hold 
 
 An incomplete intentionally bold. 
 
 Dilemma whence, seems any creature can 
 Presumptuously its creator's plan 
 
 Exploit, as creature's fancy mind to mold: 
 
 As testify six thousand years or more 
 Of lean and gruesome history, it know. 
 None philosophically lived or died. 
 If ever will while Reason find encore 
 For silly jest at any board, let flow, 
 That actuality of food deride. 
 
—64- 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 In errant imagery vicarious 
 
 Provisional humanity today, 
 
 All consciousness of truth by life delay; 
 
 Excluding rightful being, spurious 
 
 Impersonation wholly curious, 
 
 Usurps its office with complacency 
 That nothing will, apparently, dismay; 
 
 Inexplicable as presumptuous: 
 
 Assuming function as a property 
 Of all condition that relation place. 
 Mere imagery, itself, its self provides 
 With simulation of that mystery 
 
 Wherewith, itself, construct its self false-face 
 And all creation utterly derides. 
 
—65— 
 
 XL. 
 
 Philosophy, as knowledge of the truth, 
 
 Within the house of Rimmon cannot bow, 
 As Naaman did, preserving scathless brow, 
 
 By reservation; easily, forsooth, 
 
 When any broken, willing only ruth. 
 
 Is simple matter, mending, and endow 
 With former state inviolate;— Or now. 
 
 Restore to age its long departed youth: 
 
 But knowledge is to be philosophy; 
 
 Therefore philosophy is ever true 
 
 As even to existence it attain; 
 
 Since knowledge is stress actuality 
 
 Bestow as consciousness; whatever rue, 
 A definition that leaves it inane. 
 
-66- 
 
 XLI. 
 
 It is hard, Paul, to kick against the pricks^ 
 
 And an eternity were all too short, 
 
 Wherewith imagination to consort, 
 And fly sight of that absolute affix; 
 Were reason else than idle fancy tricks^ 
 
 A boundless curiosity cavort, 
 
 Amusing ever self with self-retort. 
 None would ignore plain impress of Physics: 
 
 Whence: Consciousness will find wherewith to be 
 Condition actual, and not emprise 
 Imagination with a mortal race; 
 Whence: What find consciousness of verity, 
 ''Fools, liars, hypocrites" alone despise, 
 
 And like you, Paul, will grievous make their case. 
 
—67— 
 
 XLII. 
 
 Wherewith imagination feeds the flock 
 
 That know its voice and faithful follows steps, 
 Is question that all knowledge intercepts, 
 
 Less find it pasturage on sterile rock; 
 
 Whence: Consciousness shall some day wake with shock 
 To find imagination man accepts 
 And hence imagination man adepts 
 
 In life, which should with knowledge interlock: 
 
 That while imagination solecize, 
 Far from an actual condition stray 
 And conscious cannot be of any state: 
 A patent fact that hardly justifies, 
 For absolute philosophy, Christ pay 
 The only life, yet shown, immaculate. 
 
—68- 
 
 XLIIL 
 
 While vagrant, parenthetically, speak 
 
 All men to self: "Why spectral purpose haunt 
 My life?"— though many petty purpose flaunt 
 
 Before their eyes that win aside the weak 
 
 Attention to a present need;— Or freak 
 
 Of fancy, that disguise as needful want, 
 A while may exorcise the spectre gaunt. 
 
 The vision stays, persistent, silent, meek: 
 
 Wherefore: While Huxley's living found to give 
 A pother troublesome, most others find 
 Delusion is its needful remedy; 
 Since all, by putting purpose off, can live 
 
 Their lives in peace, perchance, the onward grind 
 Of wheel of time will cease its monody. 
 
—69- 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 The man abstractional, for knowledge mete, 
 Will come; for him philosophy await, 
 And him, whom im.agery refuse now state, 
 
 The tables turning will give honored seat, 
 
 Ignoring imagery by simple feat, 
 
 That actual man all perception sate, 
 Whose likeness imagery failed imitate 
 
 Since he alone creative purpose meet: 
 
 Imperviousness yet is absolute 
 
 Accretion that persistence give to all, 
 
 As wealth submission earn, and long retain; 
 Hence imagery may even long dispute 
 An actual's right to be known, withal, 
 
 But time, in spite of fact, will right maintain. 
 
—70— 
 
 XLV. 
 
 Dependence, actual man, would alone 
 Distinguish from an imitation race; 
 But mere excluding him from rightful place 
 
 Proclaims a fact that makes creation groan; 
 
 Since absolute condition this disown; 
 
 And wakes to life propensity, that chase 
 Creative purpose from the earth, till trace 
 
 Of consciousness of it is nowhere known: 
 
 Now: All mankind both see and know all this. 
 And yet pride, selfishness and love of will 
 Make them all live as if it were not sure; 
 And now: Again, who, or what, fashion bliss 
 That these fools, liars, hypocrites love still. 
 If ever any length of life procure? 
 
-71- 
 
 XLVI. 
 
 No errant man man-actual shall be 
 
 Within conditions that relation blend, 
 Except creative plan in faulting end; 
 
 Withal: Establishing uncertainty, 
 
 Invalidating actuality, 
 
 All knowledge, its self to save, jettisoned 
 The phantom ship Creation when freight send 
 
 Adrift on voyage to Nihility: 
 
 Enough Philosophy, detecting drift 
 In all pretension to an earthly cult 
 Gleans absolute in Actuality; 
 And even so: Perception as a gift 
 Relation free bestow, sees not result, 
 But a creational activity. 
 
-72— 
 
 XLVir. 
 
 While "abstract," "absolute" and "actual," 
 Or words equivalent in speech, assign 
 No state sensation ever will devine; 
 
 The terms, and others like, provisional 
 
 Place meekly ask; perchance, sensational 
 Insensibility, without design, 
 Symbolical-predicament define 
 
 For them, to save a labor critical: 
 
 Departing not, however, by their tact. 
 From obvious position held outside 
 
 The language of conventional mankind; 
 Where safe as sound in non-semblantic fact 
 Perception never-felt awaiting bide 
 
 To lead true creature so it truth will find. 
 
-73- 
 
 XLVIII. 
 
 Condition disappearing with unseen 
 
 Relation; compound vanishing when to 
 Its elements resolved; discernment slow, 
 
 As mere sensibles, to arrive; had been 
 
 Instantly possible as mental scene, 
 
 Perchance, perceptive-trait allowed to show 
 Created creatures how create things know 
 
 Without sensation fumbling between: 
 
 Since abstract, which sensation never felt, 
 As palpably suborn perceptive-trait, 
 As ever object did sensation stress: 
 What has sensation in the object spelt 
 
 That simply terming sensed defined as state 
 Of knowing that no other shall possess? 
 
-74- 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 All palpable; oppressive as debris 
 
 Seen scattered over desert plain, content, 
 Alone, motionless, grave keeping monument 
 
 Of history^ unknown; humanity. 
 
 As fragments of creative policy 
 
 Long since inoperative and ill spent. 
 Is testimony of abandonment 
 
 By an absent unknown divinity: 
 
 Witness: Pride, selfishness and errant will. 
 Distrust, uncharitable greed, and care. 
 
 Desire, hope, wonder, fear, man's soul engage; 
 While vain imagination over spill, 
 No actual makes consciousness aware 
 That else than vanity show space or age. 
 
—75- 
 
 All knowledge is of abstract only cast: 
 
 As physics is the truth behind each ace 
 That semblance of condition ever place 
 
 Will shameful-day of prideful-man go past. 
 
 If physical, what is, as is, stand fast: 
 
 Philosophy as knowledge of the case, 
 Becoming conscious sight of human race. 
 
 Will knowledge absolute give man at last: 
 
 As semblance only will sensation stress 
 Sensation never can the truth proclaim 
 Since semblance only be as other seem; 
 While only will, the truth, perception bless, 
 ■ Perception only will for truth light flame 
 
 That brighter, longer, than the sun can beam. 
 
LI. 
 
 As dark behind made dark before, will light 
 
 Before make light behind, so dawning truth, 
 In showing what-is, as is, would uncouth, 
 
 Imaginary fancies put to flight, 
 
 By putting what-is, as is, out of sight. 
 
 One wrote the genesis of doubt, in youth, 
 And, baring every bosom thus to ruth, 
 
 All following still follow him through night: 
 
 Whence, genesis of mercy show the age. 
 
 The year, the day, the hour, when darkness fell, 
 Displacing light, that was and is man's right. 
 beardless youth, whose coming will presage, 
 Or this, or that, awake to rightly spell 
 What is, as is, and put the night aflight. 
 
LII. 
 
 In lan^ age of de sive imagery 
 
 Art faith," ' alief," ''persuade," ''convince," "assure," 
 
 And Wo " .v3, that are unable to lure 
 Forth manifesting conditionality'; — 
 Sensation, hence, insensibility; — 
 
 Which, ever for perception, while demure, 
 
 A measurable quantity procure 
 Of the one absolute persistency: 
 
 And were it possible that semblance be 
 Unstamped as fabrication of the hand 
 Creative of the universal w^hole; 
 And, made a human reason possible. 
 
 Still would its predicate as abstract stand 
 To shame the sapiency of its role. 
 
-78- 
 
 LIII. 
 
 One able reasoner saw "knowledge" ran, — 
 
 "Activity of subject;'' and, pardee! 
 
 "A basis of" possible "certainty": 
 Alack! Such subject never life began. 
 If life according to creative plan 
 
 Receive endowment of activity 
 
 For any useful productivity, 
 Presumptive author even dare to scan: 
 
 If breath is wide and deep enough to say, 
 "Activity of subject," and survive. 
 No wonder logic has its day in court; 
 Nor while unit of a compound play 
 
 The truant, even so-called reason strive 
 Of serious creation to make sport. 
 
-79 
 
 LIV. 
 
 New points of view, however, turn about 
 Whatever objects reasoners believe 
 Unaided reason rightly to perceive; 
 
 And so: Six thousand years to puzzle out, 
 
 That active-subject will all darkness route. 
 Require six thousand more to undeceive 
 Possessor of the field, the routed leave, 
 
 Perchance, activity, strength from without: 
 
 Since knowledge is activity within 
 
 A subject 'tis, hence; never of the same. 
 Less equal two each other trouble gave; 
 Not otherwise will certainty be in 
 Activity-subjective than as fame 
 Of actuation, which may it enslave. 
 
-80- 
 
 LV. 
 
 ''Activity of subject": or perceived 
 Impersonal: no reasoner reforms, 
 While vice of logic still his wit deforms; 
 
 And pride makes, easily as fool, believe 
 
 Imaginary power he receive, 
 
 Which, while as independent action storms, 
 Impotency personified, conforms 
 
 To nothing that creative mind conceived: 
 
 Nor ever will: Less fruitless trust in self, 
 Include some Babel tower building high, 
 Till falling crushes vain reason out of him; 
 Or, senseless creature, from mere seeking pelf 
 Awaking to the truth before he die. 
 Abandons living aimless life of whim. 
 
-81- 
 
 LVI. 
 
 All tactual sensation make aware 
 
 Aside from vicious reason making free 
 With words that bear no taint of imagery, 
 
 To creature, that creation let it share 
 
 In what for purpose sole it chose prepare. 
 
 Whence: Is the whole extent of certainty 
 That leaves subjective no activity. 
 
 But properly creation all declare: 
 
 And just as obviously all creatures hear, 
 Or see, or feel, or know in any way 
 That only which creation shall declare; 
 And just as obviously all creatures fear. 
 Or care, or want, or any burden may 
 In perfect safety let creation bear. 
 
-82- 
 
 LVII. 
 
 Ere fallacy man's hapless life invade, 
 
 Invention of vain reason bond mankind 
 Subjective to else than creative mind, 
 
 And plainly tells that it the race betrayed; — 
 
 Whence fallacious which reason first displayed 
 As empty blandishment of pride — all find 
 It wholly useless, aimless, stupid, blind, 
 
 Gross, vicious living, that all good evade: 
 
 And many specious propositions brief 
 To ever plead enticingly before 
 A creature eaten up with vanity; 
 Till now philosophy, with helpless grief, 
 
 Sees life mere wreckage amid rush and roar 
 Of waters sweeping to non-entity. 
 
LVIII. 
 
 Unless of absolute intelligent 
 
 Twofold dismay encounters every life; 
 
 First: Less be absolute, is nothing rife; 
 And last: Less knowing, never be content: 
 Which any seeing ever evident, 
 
 Will ever after understand why strife 
 
 An absolute philosophy must fife, 
 If save mankind from deadly argument: 
 
 But never woeful message Christ brought man 
 In saying that he must be born again 
 To enter heaven's kingdom of the blest: 
 Since Heaven is to understand the plan 
 That absolute condition will explain 
 
 And new life consciousness of truth attest. 
 
-84- 
 
 LIX. 
 
 Philosophy today tomorrow may 
 
 Not knowledge be; for each, as twinkle eye, 
 
 Condition else, 'tis sure, is passing by; 
 Save one alone that unconditioned stay, 
 Beginning not, nor ever pass away; 
 
 Whereof to come, whereto return, imply 
 
 That being only temporal they ply 
 Who to condition hold but for a day: 
 
 But not as gloom, dense settled down o'er all. 
 Will ever any ending overcast 
 
 All knowledge philosophy command; 
 Perception, even as some conscious trawl. 
 
 Lets false escape, while truth still holding fast. 
 And haul of truth philosophy will land. 
 
-85- 
 
 LX. 
 
 Could Life, demurring human creature poise 
 As occupying attitude desired, 
 If ever, with election, choice expired; 
 
 What more would gain? Thus imagery employs 
 
 A method that creative will destroys; 
 And thus to be necessity required 
 All gained by freedom discontent inspired. 
 
 Than under a creative plan enjoys: 
 
 Though abstract pose of abstract truth, affright 
 A falsehood quicker than will any fact 
 Imposter openly can imitate; 
 For, lingering hereditary right 
 
 Of abstract in all fact enforce to act, 
 Conditions all, as one that hesitate. 
 
—86— 
 
 LXI. 
 
 Since from relation all condition wake 
 
 And have persistence in existing case, 
 Cessation of persistence is by grace, 
 
 Returning any fact, without mistake, 
 
 From whence all came, where to remain, and make 
 It possible that abstract hidden race 
 Await Relation's pleasure to replace, 
 
 As if again a former state retake: 
 
 A semblance of condition in life pose; 
 
 Alike will abstract being indicate 
 
 Precise phase of a possibility; 
 
 Whence potency of matter will suppose 
 
 An abstract able to re-enter state 
 
 Of sensible conditionality. 
 
-87- 
 
 LXIL 
 
 If to relation all condition go 
 
 When cease persistence to existence lend, 
 And one sole abstract prove begin or end 
 
 Unstable fact that one or any know; 
 
 That universe, or any atom show, 
 
 Can mere deception of sensation mend, 
 Orvtrick of fallacy suffice to send, 
 
 Their instability as truth to know: 
 
 While mighty truth is germinal, or would 
 Be any terminal of quantity 
 Or quality discernible by man; 
 Profanity, though never any good 
 It bear, excusable when polity 
 
 To substitute with him creative plan. 
 
—88— 
 
 LXIII. 
 
 All truth with man is germinal: To know 
 
 Is stress of growth in consciousness alone; 
 Since letting creature knowing power own, 
 
 Creation, that creative all bestow. 
 
 Would independent other overthrow; 
 
 Hence chaos reign, and order overthrown, 
 From all existence even truth has flown, 
 
 Or vanished on condition's ebbing flow: 
 
 But as conditions come and go, so be 
 
 An abstract state imposed, whereof compound 
 All quantities that are proportionate; 
 Condition, hence, disclose not unity 
 
 Of compound, since relations new, not bound 
 Of old, attest that abstract all create. 
 
—89- 
 
 LXIV. 
 
 No law immense or intricate disclose 
 Creation of a universe or part, 
 Or particle thereof, or diverse art 
 
 In variation ask two ends to close; 
 
 Beginning of an endlessness impose 
 
 All sameness but to grow, hence, closing art, 
 Where two old die if one new live, the start 
 
 Revealed ;— and how creation onward goes: 
 
 But will philosophy be dull indeed, 
 
 Nor see, as all perceive, each closing bound 
 Relations, not apart, but present bind. 
 Nor matter be, if mystery or speed 
 A particle, or universe surround. 
 
 Pervade, or what, if somehow 'tis confined. 
 
-90— 
 
 LXV. 
 
 Creation of an actual impose 
 
 An abstract possible whose quality 
 Is non-create or abstract-unity. 
 
 Hence actual no character expose, 
 
 Of what constituent may it compose, 
 
 And, to increase, or to decrease, will be 
 Of combination a sole property. 
 
 And never variation more disclose: 
 
 So even will an abstract state declare 
 If actual escape reduction to 
 Non-entity or be perpetual 
 And either of alternatives prepare 
 That further difficulty will accrue 
 
 How nothing to maintain while actual. 
 
-91- 
 
 LXVI. 
 
 The crucial prepositional before 
 
 Unborn posterity, humanity, 
 
 In order of all being, must deputy 
 Send fumbling on into life no more 
 Than rightly; no more than abstract score; 
 
 No more than heedless of their ancestry 
 
 Take humbly, despite propensity, 
 What may creation have for them in store: 
 
 Depending safely on, so searching out 
 Is truth, the bounty of initial some 
 To guide, direct, govern all aright; 
 So will a being in-apt turn about 
 
 And blossom into fruitage all welcome 
 
 Since understanding come to them by sight. 
 
-92- 
 
 LXVII. 
 
 No more: Than that he understand by sight 
 
 Is asked of man. This light sheds wisdom old 
 Tradition taught when righteous held, though bold 
 
 And bad, those ancient ones who saw aright; 
 
 And ever evolution keep this light, 
 
 Though dimly burning now in mist and cold, 
 A gleam where worldly darkness all enfold, 
 
 That still creation lends by day and night: 
 
 Whence: Weighty consequence awaiting stale, 
 If ever blindly stepping backward bring 
 To goal, that sight-ward going would event, 
 While feather weight of reason turn the scale; 
 And Harlequin and Columbine still sing 
 And dance as if to live were merriment. 
 
-93- 
 
 LXVIII. 
 
 It pesters not one jot, philosophy 
 
 That temporal comes as' a morning dawn, 
 
 As picture darkness leaves behind when drawn, 
 
 If in relations blent beginning see 
 
 Apostle of the truth, that knowledge be; 
 Who cannot for rest, mission ever pawn, 
 That bids him ever follow star that v/arn 
 
 Where infant truth is born to deity: 
 
 Whence plain the aptitude of sense must stay 
 Proportionate of quantity sense bound 
 To satisfy philosophy and all; 
 While knowledge pushing only quantity 
 Is fact implying quantity is ground. 
 
 Not quality, whence truth will grow, withal. 
 
-94- 
 
 LXIX. 
 
 A quantity came when Relation blent; 
 As empty space to any body yield, 
 The unconditioned once gave up a field 
 
 Whereof condition-space is measurement; 
 
 Condition, hence, is unit of extent 
 
 That quantity find ever unconcealed, 
 However, or wherever be revealed. 
 
 Itself by absolute made evident: 
 
 And knowledge terminate, and fitly end. 
 As consciousness of all, and what, create. 
 Nor any form imagination hold; 
 For absolute, as abstract, all defend, 
 That unconditioned, as deity great, 
 Initiate and keep as did unfold. 
 
-95— 
 
 LXX. 
 
 Philosophy, as quantity, be less 
 
 When knowledge as a quantity be more 
 
 Than quantity, philosophy can score; 
 Hence quality less quantity possess. 
 Sensation never can put under stress; 
 
 Since semblance of condition cannot store 
 
 Shades protean as quality before 
 Proportionate of quantity duress: 
 
 Since semblance of condition unity 
 Possess by holding unit under stress, 
 As quantity, however, change will stay; 
 While quality as mere diversity. 
 
 Stress more or less of quality, more or less 
 Enforced, with dying force will melt away. 
 
-96- 
 
 LXXL 
 
 On pride of earthly creature rests the blame 
 
 That dubious, truth obvious, is made; 
 
 Since serving folly's empty masquerade 
 Of only living value robs the fame 
 Of the one actual enduring name 
 
 Among all temporal, that naught invade 
 
 In manner whatsoever to degrade, 
 Less life itself fly self from very shame: 
 
 As well, as also obvious, as not, 
 If given over to supposing vain 
 
 Of earthly bound, inventive, creature's mind; 
 Mere hapless failures of haphazzard lot 
 Without plan, purpose or design, inane 
 As stick or stone, and hopelessly as blind. 
 
-97— 
 
 LXXII. 
 
 So loth acknowledge he himself to self, 
 With is, as is, the whole creative plan, 
 And there as merest creature be a man. 
 
 To writhe as disenvironed worm; as elf. 
 
 Or nondescript, to mangle air; than pelf 
 
 Of poor pride yield; had rather he, since can 
 Persuade himself he may, than truth to scan 
 
 That make of him a piece of common delf : 
 
 Hence, less himself to self an abstract show, 
 Persuade himself no abstract be, though plain 
 With pride all wind up in non-entity; 
 But is, against not, is enough to know. 
 Whence actual, not empty show, maintain 
 The cause of truth against profanity. 
 
-98- 
 
 LXXIII. 
 
 But small appears discordant note of pride 
 When in relation mere of quantity 
 Creation seen bear opportunity; 
 
 Nay, if could be discretion cast aside, 
 
 Or worBe, its own creation seem deride; 
 For entering in of propensity 
 To break its score and spoil all harmony. 
 
 And hence admit that reason creatures guide: 
 
 But never will pliilosophy why ask, 
 And never will philosophy see hence 
 Since sheer correlation of mere to be; 
 What knowledge show philosophy will task. 
 But: Neither ever even make pretence 
 To probe perversion or a mystery. 
 
-99- 
 
 LXXIV. 
 
 Relation mere of quantity compel 
 
 Perception semblance of a semblance note 
 As if condition of condition mote 
 
 The mystery of quantity dispel 
 
 By history of quality it tell; 
 
 Or mystery nearby prove antidote 
 For mystery, still hidden and remote, 
 
 In what primeval darkness all befell: 
 
 Nor only mystery one more thereby 
 
 The burden living creature bear increase; 
 Since quality, insatiable, demand 
 
 Its choice ere even creature venture try, 
 
 Or trust the mocking forms its sight release, 
 
 Or want forbid it even to withstand. 
 LofC. 
 
—100— 
 
 LXXV. 
 
 Less be existence that condition wake 
 
 Frail structures that relation may recall, 
 A potency of mystery bids all 
 
 Relation mere of quantity forsake 
 
 Not willfully a quantity it make; 
 
 Wherein: Enslaved and impotent befall 
 That creature-will bid come and go, withal, 
 
 As if an earthly bondage never break: 
 
 Wherein: A ghastly mockery will lurk 
 
 If semblance of obedience persuade 
 
 A man himself a potency display. 
 
 Wherein: Perception even find a work, 
 
 Less overlooking mockery degrade 
 
 Its sight, till falsehood easily betray. 
 
-101- 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 As quality: Let stand relation mere 
 
 Of quality as object to which be 
 
 As subject you or I, philosophy 
 Thereon awaiting result to appear, 
 Which abstract has long since, ere ever hear 
 
 The proposition, unmistakably 
 
 Perceived and put aside unerringly 
 To fill its proper place in proper sphere: 
 
 In turn as precisely mark even we 
 A quality where naught become a lot, 
 If other one become as none the nonce; 
 For object find a subject verily 
 
 As subject find an object with no plot 
 
 Or purpose than each other soundly trounce. 
 
-102— 
 
 LXXVII. 
 
 "As distance lends enchantment to a view," 
 Will distance great or small unlike relate 
 The object and the subject, both innate, 
 
 Though change the scene; so quality as true 
 
 Retain condition abstract naught undo 
 
 When objective with subjective is mate, 
 In manner neither ever indicate, 
 
 Though manifest relation of the two: 
 
 And all activity initiate 
 
 As thence; and likewise semblance issue forth 
 Since impulse sole within continuous; 
 And hence stability will intimate 
 
 That unity must certainly bear worth, 
 Since all acknowledge it imperious. 
 
-103- 
 
 LXXVIII. 
 
 Since single never manifested to sense, 
 In language only will the term attain 
 Provisional import that aught sustain; 
 
 All "objects" and all "subjects" compounds, hence, 
 
 Ere ever unit-playing they commence; 
 
 Relation staying only whence it strain 
 Condition never any unit gain 
 
 That unto other ever evidence: 
 
 Hence license of a language will confound 
 All contemplation of creation made 
 
 By man through stretching ages wearisome; 
 And ever safe to say that no profound 
 Realisation of condition grade 
 
 The thought that unity assumes the sum. 
 
—104- 
 
 LXXIX. 
 
 While unity: Sensation seeming trace 
 
 Make all humanity sensation blind ; 
 
 Perception: Leaves the truth undefined; 
 Awaiting evolution of a race 
 That actual condition truly face 
 
 Ere functioning, as once for all designed, 
 
 As faculty unerringly to find 
 The single pathway to creative grace: 
 
 And never wishing, praying, preaching, nor 
 Supposing or assuming hide man's shame, 
 That all perceive except himself alone, 
 Who absolute condition will abhor 
 
 Because it simply must deny him fame 
 
 That granted would break creature's own backbone. 
 
-105- 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 Did unity come: Consequences sly- 
 Remote and various enough would shame 
 The sorry jest sensation make its name; 
 
 Itself made consequent, but multiply 
 
 The mystery sensation vainly fly; 
 
 Nor clearer yet disclose whence being came, 
 Nor plainer show whither be going same. 
 
 Than absolute condition signify: 
 
 In unconditioned knowledge may begin. 
 As unity indefinite allow. 
 Infinite subdivision easily; 
 Whereas: It, calling, unity find in 
 
 Will knowledge haste to make departing bow 
 To visit betters of known-unity. 
 
106- 
 
 LXXXI. 
 
 While actual to know mark knowledge act, 
 
 Condition of an actuality 
 
 Like operation of a faculty 
 Remains as seeming uninvolved fact, 
 Which habit of assuming leaves intact 
 
 Till fail perception stress, till quietly 
 
 Fades into unconditionality, 
 And baseless thence assumption thrives; alack: 
 
 And hence, persistence of condition made 
 Once manifest defines the time and scope 
 Of knowledge that can be of any use; ' 
 yince knowledge of condition not afraid 
 To stake the source of all with all the rope 
 It need, less do itself unkind abuse. 
 
—107— 
 
 LXXXIL 
 
 While actual not known mark abstract fact, 
 
 Since actual retain consistency' 
 
 Persistence of conditionality 
 Impose on all formation while intact; 
 Hence functionality alone seen act, 
 
 Mark knowledge sharing mutability 
 
 That characterize functionality 
 Of unity that never any track: 
 
 Wherefore: Must knowledge, even other grade 
 Of fact than actual-arrayed, accept 
 As propositionally proven proof; 
 ' Thence: As if actual dethroned, parade 
 Reduction to an abstract as concept 
 
 That mark all fact when seen in tender youth. 
 
-108- 
 
 LXXXIII. 
 
 Aye, tantamount to time of tender youth, 
 Perception's failure to perceive defeat 
 Man's longing for a knowledge all complete; 
 
 When dull philosophy suppose, forsooth, 
 
 Asleep the while in somewhat handy booth 
 Allows important man consider feat 
 He next attempt to finish quite as neat 
 
 As drawing time's one stump of gnawing tooth: 
 
 As merrymakers may behind the scene 
 
 Conduct themselves unknown in manner list 
 While lookerson await their coming jest; 
 Perception saw and knowledge holds, has been 
 And is, may see; and yet to be insist 
 On privacy till duly manifest. 
 
-109- 
 
 LXXXIV. 
 
 As to abstraction all perception lead, 
 
 And never will sensation truth invade, 
 And every condition come as made; 
 
 Relation writes mankind the only creed, 
 
 If any living willingly will heed, 
 
 In script of consciousness that never fade, 
 Since evolutionized race it persuade 
 
 Creative grace suffice for all its need : 
 
 In one and lonely truth whereof consists 
 Philosophy, or knowledge, or perceived. 
 If either, or all, shall contain what sought. 
 Bare consciousness whereof mankind enlists. 
 Nor any other serving them relieved, 
 Creation doing all that shall be wrought. 
 
110- 
 
 LXXXV. 
 
 As true to truth what is, not other be, 
 
 Lest false be truth and either be as none 
 And nondescript sole inning had begun. 
 
 Not speech, but quantity speaks really, 
 
 Each volume owning volubility; 
 
 Creation, hence, all or none, if all one 
 And doing all if anything be done. 
 
 And knowing this is true philosophy: 
 
 Not fancy, mystery or history. 
 
 Nor any teacher, preacher, man or saint 
 Avail a being lacking consciousness 
 Of the condition under which it be; 
 
 Whereof must each himself a picture paint 
 Just as condition him thereto shall stress. 
 
Ill 
 
 LXXXVI. 
 
 Condition manifesting mystery 
 
 To consciousness, itself the while makes clear 
 As lying wholly in a mortal's sphere; 
 
 Whence asking no impossibility 
 
 That man shall know conditionality; 
 
 And greatly ease his own position ere 
 A habit of dependence cast out fear 
 
 And conscious creature wholly trust deity: 
 
 Great knowledge glow! Perception all agog! 
 And gorgeous philosophy astride! 
 
 While simple truth, a childhood's toy, is lost. 
 A single needle haystack-fancy clog, 
 
 While garments wearing with rents gaping wide 
 A stitch or two would mend at little cost. 
 
112- 
 
 LXXXVII. 
 
 Aghast as blank with civilization stare 
 
 When falling scale from self -admiring eyes 
 Disclose to sight that only truth still hies 
 
 About appointed work, without a care 
 
 How vanity of vanities may fare, 
 
 Or how its reason scorns such enterprise, 
 As only colors such as fancy plies 
 
 Will paint the critic's picture of despair: 
 
 Were knowledge lowly and perception less 
 And still philosophy beneath the two, 
 
 Perchance, the truth would not evade man so. 
 Where one is all none other can profess 
 The doing that that one can only do. 
 Yet reason reasons it away will show. 
 
-113- 
 
 LXXXVIII. 
 
 As Christ is Truth, to man his kingdom stands 
 Still firmer than conceivable of rock 
 If that withstand untottering a shock 
 
 That other fabrications quite disbands. 
 
 To be or not, the whole of thought commands 
 And either standing will all other block, 
 And thence can never question be to mock 
 
 The simple sight that consciousness demands: 
 
 Not deity, but greater than a god, 
 
 Since undefined remains beyond confines 
 That be, however great, still less than all. 
 How be one and speak of, or to, a clod? 
 As impudent stupidity defines 
 A civilized humanity, withal. 
 
—114- 
 
 LXXXIX. 
 
 Aye, civilization tried as other scheme 
 
 Time and again have been and wanting found, 
 Will after while begin to crumble down, 
 
 And living man have dreamt another dream; 
 
 Belike creation jealous guards to seem 
 
 Whereof it pleased condition only sound, 
 Since else than manifestation would astound 
 
 And not enlighten finite of a supreme: 
 
 And any scheme humanity advise 
 Itself about no justification find 
 
 In face of fact creation stand or fall 
 On adequacy for the enterprise, 
 
 Humanity attempts, while conscious blind. 
 Itself direct: For ends of self, withal. 
 
—115— 
 
 xc. 
 
 If man a part somehow become supreme, 
 
 Of course, a new creation then would be. 
 Perception new and new philosophy, 
 
 Then sentiment condition only beam 
 
 And poets pleasing fancy fitting gleam. 
 But never prosy fact have entity, 
 Though all go on somehow contentedly. 
 
 Unlike, indeed, discarded older scheme: 
 
 Then ho! for world inventive man prepare. 
 Where vanity bids vanity welcome 
 
 And Time itself must lend to mockery; 
 When heroes find that plenty zeroes stare 
 And smallest learn that smaller yet become, 
 If cease to bear a part in mummery. 
 
-116- 
 
 XCI. 
 
 Alas, supposing over-much has won 
 
 A grist slow turning evolution grind, 
 And never justification creature find 
 
 For wandering from light of burning sun 
 
 Of truth that ever on appointed course run, 
 
 To light the day wherein mere mortals blind 
 By night can see their way to rightly wind 
 
 The maze of life till length of time be done: 
 
 Creation one and life a part define 
 The single opportunity and scope 
 Of being any living life embrace; 
 And clear that fact of being will confine 
 Its occupation, strictly barring hope. 
 
 To course and end creative purpose trace. 
 
■117- 
 
 XCII. 
 
 Both supposition and assumption blast 
 The expectation either would inspire 
 Before set forth to satisfy desire 
 
 By willingness to venture being tasked; 
 
 While absolute condition gives ere asked 
 All to which any creature can aspire, 
 Or seeing rightly even will admire, 
 
 And all that ever having may hold fast: 
 
 Whence: Condemnation come upon the world. 
 That absolute condition is rejected 
 And wide imagination to explore; 
 Philosophy has no black flag unfurled, 
 Nor battles for elated or dejected, 
 But seeing blinded ever must deplore. 
 
—118- 
 
 XCIII. 
 
 Explore imagination is the fact 
 
 Wherein fool, liar, hypocrite command 
 Alike imaginary feature stand 
 
 And for a possible creation act: 
 
 Thence follows it, Dogberry hath the tact 
 
 Not write himself down ass with his own hand, 
 Though all intelligence thereby disband 
 
 As endless dreary mummery exact: 
 
 The worm responsive turns when trod upon, 
 But self-esteeming man complacently 
 Allows the truth to crush him every day: 
 A bladder full of air bursts when trod on. 
 But mere inflation of thin vanity 
 
 No known force ever seen to put away. 
 
-119 
 
 XCIV. 
 
 As manifestation being puts aside 
 
 All questions and appears, beyond dispute, 
 As act creative of an absolute; 
 
 Hence: Supposition idle stay beside 
 
 Array of semblance universal wide; 
 
 And hence: Hume, Berkeley, Hegel, Kant stand mute, 
 Eke ilk while phantom truth their wits compute 
 
 As wanting semblance even to deride: 
 
 And were all manifestation emptiness. 
 How easily in imagination ride — 
 
 As witches hie on broomstick horse by night- 
 Mankind post haste on purposeless express. 
 Ho! helter-skelter, hurry-scurry wide. 
 For holy city never any sight. 
 
—120- 
 
 xcv. 
 
 As semblance only manifestation pose: 
 That absolute inviolate remain 
 Though act creative shall begin to reign; 
 
 And truth commensurate therewith compose 
 
 That knowledge of condition will disclose; 
 And being, such as living know, attain 
 Without establishing exhaustive drain 
 
 That would at length to want the whole expose: 
 
 And many other linkings evident 
 In chain of a nonsensical because: 
 To blind where absolute is unity! 
 And what a deal of trouble would be sent 
 To limbo did mortality "give pause," 
 Ere lightly they suppose philosophy. 
 
-121- 
 
 XCVI. 
 
 The vice imagination lends to thought 
 
 Betray mankind to seek explaining cause, 
 While consciousness of truth exact applause 
 
 For ordination that once for all wrought; 
 
 And unity, evading as if naught, 
 
 Still stress conclusions any thinking draws. 
 And mind with merest stupefaction awes, 
 
 Without in any case explaining aught: 
 
 As any act in reason to suppose. 
 
 The wonder is how ever came the thought 
 To speculate on rather than to take, 
 A being that in being but a close 
 
 Put out of .sight what ever had it brought 
 Less older never let the new awake. 
 
—122- 
 
 XCVIL 
 
 As mortal father mortal son prolong: 
 
 So absolute now is, as heretofore, 
 
 And change may seem to be, but nothing more; 
 Whence: All temporal seeming only strong, 
 While absolute please semblance do no wrong; 
 
 Be day, or all eternity, the score 
 
 An atom, or creation, languish o'er 
 As fancy of an absolute they throng: 
 
 But now: From fancy other fancies grow. 
 Till absolute shall find, if not discern. 
 
 That who adventure will must fortune rue; 
 Whence how: At last a world is here that show 
 That mortal fancy can all limit spurn, 
 And mere creative fancy far outdo. 
 
-123- 
 
 XCVIII. 
 
 "Lead, kindly light," is well; "Lead thou me on" 
 Is not: 'tis not well to have gratified 
 Embodied fancy of mere earthly pride. 
 
 Instead of man of true creative brawn; 
 
 However be deformed, or wobegone. 
 
 He even be. For self-pride, to find guide 
 In man's creator, will wholly deride 
 
 What man's eventuation holds in pawn: 
 
 The hymn that here betrays humanity 
 Is barring singer's quite unconscious vice 
 Of pride, as sentiment, confessed sublime. 
 And in exposing personality 
 
 More obviously chimes the right advice, 
 If justly any creature dauntless climb. 
 
—124- 
 
 XCIX. 
 
 Ah when: What, never? So!— Yes, brother, yes. 
 Yes, even so; reflecting pause, but clock 
 Was never set to chime the hour when shock 
 
 Of truth will mortal sense beset; while stress 
 
 Of fancy and propensity him press. 
 Is man immovable as any rock. 
 Insensible as adamant 'gainst knock; — 
 
 But after while to Christ will all confess: 
 
 Slow evolution after while will soothe 
 Propensity; and stress of fancy lead 
 To end of vanity in some far time; 
 But today, and they will hear him, all smooth, 
 
 And straight, and light, and bright the path to speed 
 Impersonal man from earth's sloughing grime. 
 
-125— 
 
 Mankind impersonal with absolute 
 
 As personal, so to speak, comprise 
 
 Idea that from its lair will truth surprise 
 
 And render mortal consciousness astute; 
 
 While comprehensive of all attribute. 
 
 Reciprocal, that either must apprise. 
 If they together ever realize, 
 
 Creator or created ere evolute: 
 
 For clear, when may or may not be, the rule 
 Arise invoked by present absolute. 
 Compulsory in either case alike, 
 Adjustment that may seem enforcement fool; 
 But actiilg only as a substitute, 
 Impersonality need not strike pike. 
 
126- 
 
 CI. 
 
 Philosophy and knowledge testify 
 
 They know of absolute beyond their reach 
 By silence that expresses more than speech; 
 
 Moreover unconditioned specify 
 
 As mystery that ever will defy 
 
 The utmost effort, possible to each, 
 To go behind persistency they teach 
 
 All sensitive existing-entity: 
 
 As unconditioned, hence, infiltrate all. 
 Without crystalization manifest. 
 Dispersion is the whole of mystery; 
 Attenuation properly, withal, 
 
 Semblantic manifestation repossess; 
 And all sensation notes is vacancy. 
 
-121 
 
 CII. 
 
 To know is not to sense; reduction to 
 
 Sensation; consciousness, complex of stress 
 And sense, Relation as condition dress 
 
 And knowledge thus, alone, may come and go: 
 
 In aggregation consciousness will show 
 The character of semblance in duress. 
 And hence: Intelligent and fool address 
 
 Alike creative purpose ere it know: 
 
 The field imagination sowed with tares 
 Shows aggregated fools predominate. 
 But after while another crop will grow. 
 When all imagination's crop of cares 
 Kind harvesting of time eradicate, 
 
 And consciousness of truth be all men know. 
 
-128- 
 
 CIII. 
 
 When knowledge and philosophy disclaim 
 
 To know or teach the absolute the stress 
 Of unconditioned thereby they confess; 
 
 Like other being neither called the game, 
 
 To be, or not to be, but found it came; 
 
 Wherefore existence only they possess 
 When will a power absolute express 
 
 What either show but neither give a name : 
 
 Yet signify that being only be 
 Where unconditionality the form 
 Of some conditionality will show; 
 Or, if will any prefer so to see, 
 
 The case imports persistent potent norm 
 That will formation endlessly bestow. 
 
—129- 
 
 CIV. 
 
 With father in a heaven need mankind, 
 
 "As pants the hart for water brook," athirst, 
 Place knowing of immensity as first; 
 
 Need ever discontent of shallow mind 
 
 All sallow overcast whatever find? 
 
 Yet: Wisdom doth account him as accurst, 
 With never aiding hand his bonds to burst, 
 
 If having sight exploit a life as blind: 
 
 Him: Danger of supposing should appall; 
 Him: Futile should imagination see; 
 Shall yet the vice mankind forever soil? 
 What is, as is, is all;— and thereto fall. 
 With tooth and nail, and never once let be 
 Till all, as consciousness, each one uncoil. 
 
—130— 
 
 cv. 
 
 Mere hanging spirit out for pecking daws, 
 
 While man's absurd inventions only found 
 Where should persistence of condition sound; 
 
 The water brook might pass; but, wonder pause. 
 
 Where found mankind supposing ever cause 
 Of an imaginary man; compound 
 Of willful freedom, reason and the ground, 
 
 Awaiting ever man with open jaws: 
 
 And never knowledge, or philosophy. 
 Would difficulty find could reason not 
 Inventions of its own insist upon; 
 Inflating all mankind with vanity 
 
 Till self -pride only leads the sorry lot 
 Whither imagination lures it on. 
 
—131- 
 
 CVI. 
 
 Were sentiment allowed philosophy, 
 
 A sure philosopher could only swear 
 Till paled the blue empyreal up there 
 
 At wantonness of man's calamity. 
 
 And then redouble his profanity 
 To find imagination even dare 
 To show its face abroad in open air, 
 
 Where should appear a true Humanity: 
 
 Alas, but sentiment of even poor 
 Profanity must wholly vanish while 
 Creation of imagination stay. 
 Yet, evolution endless time explore, 
 And sure imagination's fate on file 
 To find ere final closing of its day. 
 
-132— 
 
 CVII. 
 
 Where absolute within condition dwell 
 Persistence of condition, mystery 
 Disdaining, audibly the history 
 
 Of absolute declaims, preserving well 
 
 The golden legend of creative spell, 
 
 Which as all knowledge is philosophy, 
 Perchance, persuade man from adversity 
 
 To absolute condition whereof tell: 
 
 And from the scene imagination fly, 
 
 ' As some long uncomfortable night's dream 
 
 Awaking happily has sent away; 
 And with it artful erudition hie 
 
 That baseless reason wanting even theme 
 
 No longer on man's wits a tattoo play. 
 
-133- 
 
 CVIII. 
 
 All be, or not; hence absolute or naught; 
 
 The task for being set awaits reply, 
 
 And each Benzonian must speak or die; 
 So simply subtle all semblantic wrought, 
 That vanish quite if only option sought; 
 
 Seem actual, imaginary fly. 
 
 Whence: Even in the twinkle of an eye, 
 The living live, the living die, so fraught: 
 
 Where life is purpose of creative will, 
 
 Whence failing purpose semblance will be none. 
 Less dreams to pester Hamlet's dead, perchance; 
 And death, where no creative purpose fill. 
 Less idle lagging of formation one, 
 
 Or sleeping Hamlets still onward advance. 
 
—134— 
 
 CIX. 
 
 Though plain as pike staff ever truth be seen 
 O'er human thought, since Thales till to-day 
 Impossiblest fancy has held sway, 
 
 And never field has sown whence knowledge glean; 
 
 Example: Huxley nihil bonum screen; 
 
 How: Medley of mere swish-swash of byplay, 
 The human understanding steal away 
 
 From seeing what creation might have been: 
 
 Let every scientist pause, for a law 
 Of all creation doth him dominate; 
 
 Whence truth, save hypocracy, naught obscure; 
 Let chemist but admit the well known flaw 
 In his process to duly lend its weight, 
 And never more, as chemist, be he sure. 
 
-135- 
 
 cx. 
 
 As absolute condition should appear 
 
 Self evident truth ever self display 
 
 And never suffer argument array; 
 Indeed, from voice of reason flies in fear, 
 Since heeding seeming question would uprear; 
 
 As consciousness created can only stay 
 
 Where actual put imagery away, 
 And worldly kingdom hence came never near: 
 
 Where vanity of speculation call 
 
 Down darkness deeper, gloomier, than night. 
 As condemnation on ignoring truth; 
 Whereof a saying even goes, withal, 
 
 "That man loves darkness rather than the light," 
 On aptly classing him as fool, forsooth. 
 
-136- 
 
 CXL 
 
 If conflict seem within creation range, 
 A temporal must situation view 
 As order that the actual pursue; 
 
 Not suffer momentary phase to gage 
 
 Eventuation of a stretching age; 
 
 For sure humanity some day will sue 
 For approbation become justly due, 
 
 Ere history shall close its final page: 
 
 But still philosophy and knowledge fret 
 Without avail to see the ''Much Ado 
 About Nothing" that mortal being raise; 
 In minding matters they in nowise beget 
 That go themselves, as easy as an old shoe, 
 Alone, when only they obey and praise. 
 
-137- 
 
 CXII. 
 
 Save absolute condition indurate, 
 
 Is knowledge possible, and also no 
 Cohesion of proportion be to show; 
 
 All language babbles nothing, soon or late, 
 
 However self-pride of men sayings rate; 
 
 All's hoisted by its own petard, not slow, 
 If try ideal of idea blow 
 
 From any bubble fancy free inflate: 
 
 To fill a physical sensation need 
 A physical to be, while neither can 
 Less absolute condition ever be; 
 Mere consciousness, unwittingly, hence heed 
 Where stress of absolute condition scan. 
 No other presence than consistency. 
 
138- 
 
 CXIII. 
 
 Creation absolute by absolute 
 
 Of absolute for absolute imply 
 
 What self-pride primes mere mortals to deny; 
 Nor other fluting for its fluting flute, 
 But idle tooting idle fancy toot 
 
 That never any being satisfy 
 
 But leaves all hungering, without supply 
 Of peace that life itself should constitute: 
 
 But never can till come within the bounds 
 Of possibility that will exclude 
 
 The proud or selfish man's propensity; 
 That absolute on reason's baseless grounds 
 Displace without a herald or prelude, 
 
 That mortal pride may wear complacency. 
 
-139- 
 
 CXIV. 
 
 But what about it all concerns no man, 
 
 For written with clear circumspection: ''Judge 
 
 You not less you be judged," but less a grudge 
 Against philosophy await to ban; 
 Philosophy explains the case as can; 
 
 Whence: Folly for a part the whole to nudge 
 
 If one community can ever budge, 
 Till change the order of existing plan: 
 
 And in for penny even in for pound, 
 Philosophy may further saying state 
 Perception cannot judgment signify. 
 Indeed, Philosophy case never found 
 Where mortal judgment any estimate, 
 Since absolute time and space occupy. 
 
-140- 
 
 cxv. 
 
 "Fools, liars, hypocrites." . . . Since pride of self 
 Christ saw had led dependent organism 
 Till vastness, casting off as phlegm, 
 
 Let mortal being go on seeking pelf. 
 
 Whence scientist, as even cunning elf, 
 Can start man along as protoplasm 
 To end at length before a yawning chasm^ 
 
 Less deftly puts the question on the shelf: 
 
 Since reason like will also him endow. 
 
 The lowly, gladly maybe, will perceive,. 
 
 Fool, liar, hypocrite class scientist. 
 
 If church, or state, or mart mankind allow^ 
 
 Their fruits at length the lowly undeceive 
 
 And absolute philosophy give rest. 
 
—141- 
 
 CXVI. 
 
 And lo, the poets come, hence knowledge fly; 
 
 The throes of chaos suffered thence for naught; 
 
 All order, labor long enduring, wrought. 
 Mythology and Jewish history, 
 The Chinese ever biding mystery. 
 
 E'en absolute that other being sought 
 
 In vain till semblance of contentment brought, 
 All are by poets imagery laid by : 
 
 Stern was, grim is, and trembling to be, 
 All fly away before a fancy's breath 
 As very chaff withstanding hurricane. 
 For what this tempest in a teapot see? 
 For any earthly thing weave laurel wreath, 
 If after all the storms but peace again. 
 
-142- 
 
 CXVII. 
 
 A waste imagination will explore 
 
 To find a desert-haunting, brooding sphinx 
 That past and future meaninglessly links 
 
 In endless chain of silence ever more. 
 
 As well: If idle fancy's picture bore 
 
 Mankind, in form of preying, hungry lynx, 
 
 That through an endless darkness prowling slinks 
 
 Intent as happy seeking ever gore: 
 
 Still passing strange, intelligence that see 
 That two and two are four will freely leave 
 The absolute that is for baseless dream. 
 Can vanity become propensity 
 
 So fixed that consciousness but seem deceive 
 While truth alone reside in earthly scheme? 
 
—148- 
 
 CXVIII. 
 
 The fool can say, as well as not, there's naught, 
 But liar himself cannot yet deceive, 
 The hypocrite alone that feat achieve 
 
 When into one are fool and liar wrought. 
 
 But still imagination, nor word, brought 
 The hypocrite a meaning that reprieve 
 From absolute investment they receive, 
 
 When semblance of formation being taught: 
 
 Whence all civilization vainly boast, 
 While hapless pining only man employ 
 For lacking consciousness of simple truth; 
 In foolish lying hypocrisy lost. 
 
 The church, the state and mart alike decoy 
 Man's vanity with never thought of ruth. 
 
-144- 
 
 CXIX. 
 
 Not absolute creation wide has spread; 
 But: A mere moment, or a particle 
 Imagination make; an article 
 
 Of pharmacy, whereof, as might be said. 
 
 Take you so much of this ere go to bed, 
 To dose all consciousness; hysterical 
 With fear less medicine empirical 
 
 That fact with fancy treacherously wed: 
 
 Nor absolute imagination wake 
 
 To find that willful being somehow be 
 Of any fashion reason may decide. 
 Woe unto reasoners, saw he that spake 
 Philosophy that never learning see. 
 Nor any mortal effort man provide. 
 
-145— 
 
 cxx. 
 
 All propositions absolute begin 
 
 That ever absolute solution end; 
 
 To be or not, as any wish contend, 
 But ever choice involved solution win. 
 Philosophy no open question din. 
 
 Nor knowledge ever vision will amend, 
 
 And learning hence incontinently wend 
 To imagery man's reason flounder in: 
 
 A Christ spoke true philosophy untaught. 
 
 Whom taint of earthly learning never touched 
 Or hope of man were now as never one; 
 A proposition quite within terms brought 
 Of absolute solution herein vouched, 
 That propositions only answer won. 
 
-146- 
 
 CXXI. 
 
 And: "Thou shalt have no other god but me" 
 Rolls meaninglessly over every tongue 
 While sheer imagination binds the throng 
 
 To see as wont and not as ever be; 
 
 Since anthropomorphic as with irony 
 Explains the scientific matter long 
 That trained unconscious parrots caw among 
 
 A concourse stupefied with vanity: 
 
 But: "Marvel not that I say unto you: 
 Ye must be born again," we will suppose 
 Is not hence anthropomorphically meant. 
 But never anything so very true 
 As birth imagination doth impose 
 On all of human being now extant. 
 
-147- 
 
 CXXII. 
 
 The deed betoken consciousness, or none; 
 A world once conscious of philosophy 
 Like Christ's, whence simple Christianity, 
 
 As water, gravity obeying, run; 
 
 While act of any, not a conscious one, 
 Is merely following propensity 
 Importing neither source or destiny; 
 
 The fruit of imagery, and not of sun: 
 
 In vagary of imagery man's will 
 
 Is commonly supposed from habit not 
 Outworn to have monition of its own; 
 Wherewith those lacking consciousness can fill 
 To their self-satisfaction empty spot, 
 And feel as full as any overflown. 
 
148- 
 
 CXXIII. 
 
 As absolute condition man embrace 
 
 A voice still crying in a wilderness 
 
 Repeats: ''Repent and take a consciousness," 
 
 And thus philosophy entreats his race. 
 
 And till they hear and will perceive their case 
 Is under mere imaginary stress 
 No end can ever be to their distress, 
 
 Nor hope, himself, and maker cease disgrace: 
 
 And absolute condition will enforce 
 
 That consciousness be knowledge, nor admit 
 An affectation of mere faith instead; 
 Unconscious, not alternative in course 
 That absolute condition can permit. 
 
 Hence the unknowing as now be as dead. 
 
-149— 
 
 CXXIV. 
 
 For what: Suppose imaginary state 
 
 Less can delusion consciousness disdain; 
 
 Or yet, unconsciousness will thought restrain 
 That would infatuation estimate. 
 For what: Exchange sheer knowledge for mere fate, 
 
 When self-importance any ever gain 
 
 Is stark impossibility to feign 
 That actual condition dissipate: 
 
 And still for what: Shall self-importance stand 
 If sure no actuality will share 
 With it profusion of complacency. 
 But still, behold: Mankind are rather grand, 
 And absolute condition loth to wear 
 Without it gratified their vanity. 
 
-150- 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 A consciousness of terms, whereof to be, 
 Will shame imagination off the earth 
 And leave a simple being to have birth 
 
 And fix foundation of philosophy. 
 
 A shadow of a cloud in autumn's day 
 Is absolute, as all of any worth, 
 And all imagination's wealth of dearth 
 
 Defames in momentary entity: 
 
 A simple atom, semblance though at best. 
 Sustained by absolute disposing might, 
 Is something true, and fancy only naught. 
 Come unto me and I will give you rest. 
 
 Said Christ, who knew whereof he spoke by sight. 
 And truth of all philosophy men taught. 
 
151- 
 
 CXXVI. 
 
 Come unto me and I will give you rest, 
 Says actual to all sensational, 
 That undertake to feel, what be it all; 
 
 Whose ceaseless pushing will forever pest. 
 
 Come unto me and I will give you jest. 
 It hears imagination also call, 
 And doing naught less wearisome, withal. 
 
 Thus touches button that ''does all the rest:" 
 
 Aladdin's lamp with childhood goes away 
 But worldly kingdom touch awoke still stand 
 While age on age of manhood rise and fade 
 Creation naught, and being without day, 
 While all imagination choose command. 
 Without demur obedient parade. 
 
-152— 
 
 CXXVIL 
 
 The truth, as proposition, once aside 
 
 Let monstrous fancy wantonly uprear 
 Till history of the human race appear, 
 
 And mortal man's intelligence deride; 
 
 And thus to stand: Till Christ, who first applied: 
 **Fools, liars, hypocrites" to them, they hear. 
 And save slow evolution task so drear 
 
 As sheer enforcing consciousness betide: 
 
 Since conscious being, conscious that it be. 
 It follows that it conscious will be, too, 
 That absolute condition actuate 
 Its undertakings, knowing certainty 
 As gradually it unfolds, is true. 
 Enduring occupation of its state. 
 
—153- 
 
 CXXVIII. 
 
 Fool, liar, hypocrite, the Christ address 
 
 To man who dare pretend truth can't perceive, 
 While pride and selfishness with ease deceive 
 
 To sell his birth-right for a pottage mess; 
 
 Yet absolute philosophy assess 
 
 Mankind as still potential to achieve 
 A worthy end if only they receive 
 
 From absolute condition conscious stress: 
 
 From whence come all created entity; 
 If from relation that originate, 
 Or evolution that continue, is one; 
 Since absolute condition only be 
 So being, whatsoever be its state, 
 And mere imaginary case be none. 
 
-154- 
 
 CXXIX. 
 
 As absolute philosophy implies 
 
 Intelligence of conscious being, it 
 Implies that such intelligence be fit 
 
 An implication true, and hence assize 
 
 Intelligence that only shall arise 
 
 In consciousness of absolute, to-wit: 
 Exclude the liar, fool and hypocrite; 
 
 Whence: Christ's denunciation no surprise: 
 
 But: Nevertheless such philosophy 
 Fact of denunciation announces not; 
 Nor can intelligence become aware 
 Of what denunciation may imply; 
 
 Whence: Cross each t as well as each i dot, 
 Less knowledge all shall vanish into air. 
 
-155- 
 
 cxxx. 
 
 Length absolute philosophy will go 
 May actual condition bare explore 
 So-much and nothing whatsoever more; 
 
 Created its self, creation only know, 
 
 Creation knowledge so much hence bestow; 
 
 So-much, or nothing, consciousness may store, 
 Take, measure sense as well, or want deplore; 
 
 So-much all life seem hazzards on the throw: 
 
 Man's consciousness with other semblance show 
 Unseen relation, absolute in sphere 
 That rule, no fugitiveness manifest; 
 Which absolute philosophy make known. 
 In postulate of power to appear 
 Or disappear formation oft attest. 
 
-156- 
 
 CXXXI. 
 
 While baseless reason that inventive want 
 Of wild desire to reach beyond its state 
 Supplied mankind, persuade they dominate, 
 
 Somewhat, the scene existence merely haunt; 
 
 So long will absolute truth in vain flaunt 
 
 Before man's eyes the one and single fate 
 That only can his longing satiate, 
 
 And vagary triumph ever vaunt: 
 
 Whence fool on color argue as if were 
 An abstract thing and, Tyndall-like, ignore 
 The only abstract possible to be; 
 Or, broadly, man pretend without a fear 
 To put behind himself what lay before 
 His eyes and blindly search non-entity. 
 
-157 
 
 CXXXII. 
 
 To postulate the unconditioned case 
 
 From the conditioned will young truth awake 
 That once aroused will mortals not forsake; 
 
 Self-evident all evidence embrace 
 
 And question never more mankind disgrace; 
 Nor pretence postulate courageous fake 
 To war against and into fragments break 
 
 Each state of consciousness creation place: 
 
 To postulate the truth yet never need, 
 As absolute ere any scrutiny 
 
 Will draw all roads to self, as Rome once did; 
 And save to be, or not, attends its speed, 
 Will ever absolute philosophy 
 Await the sanction any ever bid. 
 
-158- 
 
 CXXXIII. 
 
 To be, or not to be, nor question what 
 Shall pester ever being manifest 
 By form of unconditioned one's unrest; 
 
 And absolute philosophy speak not 
 
 To questions that mere vanity besot, 
 
 Like those wherewith man meaninglessly jest, 
 Or haunting imagery that Hamlets pest 
 
 But ever what, and never less, it wot: 
 
 And yet, and yet; how characterize the scene 
 No fond recollection presents to view 
 Of horror hallowed human life display. 
 In world as imagery will have it seen, 
 When heaven's kingdom on earth undo, 
 And silence absolute philosophy. 
 
-159— 
 
 CXXXIV. 
 
 "Seek ye the kingdom which is heaven first 
 
 "And all things shall be added unto you," 
 
 Puts absolute philosophy askew; 
 Since: Absolute will be asunder burst 
 When creature freedom finds to do as durst; 
 
 Since: Christ's philosophy scarce trickles through 
 
 Man's vanity with any meaning true, 
 In testament his imagery rehearsed: 
 
 That still sets forth essential truth of life, 
 Since makes its single opportunity 
 Conformity with a creative plan; 
 That needless make the care and toil and strife, 
 Self-pride and selfishness wring ruthlessly 
 From generations of deluded man. 
 
160- 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 In absolute philosophy: to seek, 
 
 To wish, to ask, to do, is vanity 
 Immeasurable as all imagery; 
 
 Whereof, as being not, it nothing spake; 
 
 ''Take no heed of tomorrow" is the beak 
 That tears the vitals of humanity, 
 Fast bound on barren rock profanity, 
 
 The victim of imagination's freak: 
 
 Imagination turns on what it breed 
 As appetite stay limitless its food 
 At length can only find in progeny; 
 And human vanity shall prove the creed, 
 When vain experience exhausts the mood 
 To live on nothing but apology. 
 
161— 
 
 CXXXVI. 
 
 But: Being only is the habit of 
 
 A disposition since aught will persist 
 If naught be able to ask it to desist; 
 
 Hence hope of all humanity is love. 
 
 Not: Forbid it, Almighty God above, 
 
 In form fools, liars, hypocrites attest. 
 While they unwholesomely the earth infest, 
 
 But disposition wholly truthward hove: 
 
 Where hope is merely possibility. 
 
 That baseless reason will at length yield man 
 To inclination consciousness shall guide; 
 And disposition actuality 
 
 That has escaped imagination's plan 
 Of boundless devastation to abide. 
 
162- 
 
 CXXXVII. 
 
 Biit marvel not that I say unto you: 
 
 Ye must be born again, was also said 
 To man whom imagery had so long led, 
 
 Whence, if to be, he must be made anew. 
 
 Hence: Absolute philosophy will view 
 
 Unconscious being as one that is dead, 
 And absolute creation bow its head 
 
 When else than semblance it condition true: 
 
 While wisdom found in Christ an open speech. 
 An absolute philosophy is dumb, 
 
 Since absolute condition does but act; 
 All consciousness therefore mankind will reach 
 As other being into being come 
 And ever mutual concurrence lack. 
 
-163- 
 
 CXXXVIII. 
 
 Blessed are the meek, said Christ, for they the earth 
 
 Inherit shall; and correspondingly 
 
 Is fact of absolute philosophy 
 That consciousness of truth make life of worth; 
 While pride and selfishness, receiving birth 
 
 Of casual spasmodic imagery, 
 
 Are not created actuality, 
 But passing shadows of an earthly mirth: 
 
 Which one, by taking thought, to stature can 
 One cubit add, He asked when wishing teach 
 That all receive who anything possess. 
 And made dependent by creative plan 
 On what he may receive, it follows, each : 
 Is creature of dependence he confess. 
 
-164- 
 
 CXXXIX. 
 
 Be still, Mirth; ''Blessed are the meek." — Be meek; 
 Till billows never wreckage strand ashore, 
 Nor Babel towers crumbling deplore. 
 
 Await inheritance you cannot seek; 
 
 So absolute philosophy hear speak, 
 
 Though billows heaving wreckage as before 
 And Babel towers crumbling fall o'er, . 
 
 Still mighty absolute upholds the weak: 
 
 'Tis meek to be the greatest thing on earth, 
 A being wholly conscious of its state 
 As part of absolute reality; 
 'Tis proud to be the smallest sight engirth, 
 A creature impudently roving fate 
 Unconscious of its wanton vanity. 
 
-165- 
 
 CXL. 
 
 Blessed are the low in spirit, also said 
 
 The Christ to man, whom strange propensity 
 Of pride turned from created entity 
 
 To shapes imagination only shed; 
 
 If ever being voice of Christ had led, 
 Today would witness not humanity, 
 The idle plaything of mere imagery. 
 
 Unconscious, aimless, full of fear and dread: 
 
 And absolute philosophy rejoice 
 
 To hear on earth a tongue that truly speak 
 Its meaning clear to living creature there; 
 But short its joy, indeed; soon finding voice 
 Is into silence seeking, far too weak 
 To rout bold imagery from earthly lair. 
 
—166- 
 
 CXLI. 
 
 Since actual condition constitute 
 
 Precise philosophy that can prevail, 
 
 And Christ affirms both it and what entail, 
 
 No question earthly imagery might moot 
 
 Till every star from out the heavens shoot, 
 Would even in the slightest sense avail 
 One jot or tittle of it to assail, 
 
 And first as last 'twere well if it be mute: 
 
 While absolute philosophy perceive 
 An earthly imagery mischievous 
 
 It hold no man therefor responsible; 
 Since thus confess it knowingly deceive. 
 As one creation in all obvious 
 One author of all is ostensible. 
 
-167- 
 
 CXLII. 
 
 As absolute is, consciousness as sure 
 
 Will be of absolute, none are deceived, 
 And pride's deceptions never are believed; 
 
 Whereon fools, liars, hypocrites innure: 
 
 With Christ himself imagination lure 
 
 Mankind, by church and state and mart conceived 
 Alone to foster pride, that well perceived 
 
 His truth made all created things demure: 
 
 None are deceived; fool, liar, hypocrite 
 
 Each one, himself, as clear as noon-day sun 
 Perceives himself to be, yet pride allure; 
 Whence absolute philosophy befit 
 Mankind, less evolution force become 
 At length what it today will him assure. 
 
—168— 
 
 CXLIIL 
 
 While quantity is merely sensible, 
 
 Formation cogitable also be; 
 
 Though limit of all possibility 
 Makes only semblance comprehensible; 
 To render cogitable sensible 
 
 And mere formation mirror truthfully 
 
 Invoked the faculty of imagery; 
 And man became an ungovernable: - 
 
 If fatal mishap of creation may 
 
 Attempt at making conscious being seem 
 Eventuation only can decide; 
 But certain man does not make imagery 
 And absolute philosophy hence deem 
 Him creature that creation must abide. 
 
169- 
 
 CXLIV. 
 
 Where semblance of condition shall relate 
 Bare quantity will sensible attain, 
 Which cogitable as formation train 
 
 If any semblance thence emancipate; 
 
 Such consciousness attempt discriminate, 
 
 Since will relation not the whole restrain. 
 Against infinite imagery in vain, 
 
 As worldly kingdom seem doth demonstrate: 
 
 Hence: Mission of a Christ alone avoid 
 Slow evolution from predicament 
 It seems creation has itself got in. 
 Since all philosophy at once destroyed 
 By mere look of an imaginary bent; 
 But: Evolution will wind even sin. 
 
—170- 
 
 CXLV. 
 
 The crucial thing for man on earth is what 
 To see, whatever be predicament; 
 To know whereof life gives a testament, 
 
 Since vain emotion teaching turns to rot; 
 
 Hence, absolute philosophy case spot 
 
 Where thinnest possible environment 
 The mortal tonsorial integument 
 
 Protect against what him has surely got: 
 
 In plainest language man what is must know, 
 Which absolute philosophy lays bare 
 To all who pride and selfishness despise; 
 For pride and selfishness on man bestow 
 The badge fools, liars, hypocrites seen wear 
 By every other creature that has eyes. 
 
-171- 
 
 CXLVI. 
 
 Resist not evil, said man's true Messiah, 
 
 Resist not evil, says philosophy; 
 
 Since even openly propensity 
 Dare absolute condition, and desire 
 Mere creatures independently inspire, 
 
 And vainest imagery hypocrisy 
 
 Impose on man as actuality, 
 And falsity as consciousness attire: 
 
 They toil not, neither do they spin, who live 
 
 The life creation plan, said the Messiah; 
 
 But vanity bids millions toil in vain; 
 
 For what: The suffering and labor give . 
 
 That pride and selfishness alone inspire 
 
 And never even earthly peace attain . 
 
-172— 
 
 CXLVII. 
 
 The imagery hypocrisy attire 
 
 Will evolution patiently displace, 
 
 And mortals try again the truth to trace, 
 
 Less heed, perchance, the message of Messiah; 
 
 For absolute philosophy require 
 
 The very truth in absolutes one case, 
 And that creation not itself disgrace 
 
 By leaving helpless creature to desire: 
 
 Twixt evolution and desire man 
 In absolute philosophy will find 
 
 Decision for occasion mete as sound, 
 But absolute philosophy bar plan 
 
 That foster pride or selfish leave mankind. 
 And follows Christ as one alone profound. 
 
-173— 
 
 CXLVIII. 
 
 Resist not evil nor seek benefit 
 An absolute philosophy expose 
 As terms condition absolute impose 
 
 When consciousness of being shall permit; 
 
 Hence: ''Stiff-necked" Jewry proved itself unfit, 
 As living creature, for enduring throes 
 All being whatsoever undergoes. 
 
 And insubordination published it: 
 
 A rigid fact existence interpose 
 That absolute condition satisfy, 
 
 Whence question only fancy ever ask. 
 If absolute condition more enclose 
 Than find an absolute philosophy, 
 Sure only fancy ever can unmask. 
 
—174- 
 
 CXLIX. 
 
 The terms of absoluteness are for all, 
 
 Not only bind, but openly pronounce, 
 As quantity and quality announce. 
 
 Precisely what creation disenthrall; 
 
 That none more than another ever call; 
 
 Wherefore: Condition found may none renounce, 
 Nor may condition other find denounce, 
 
 But waiting each to take what shall befall: 
 
 And truly only in a v^^orld unknown, 
 Or in a dream may being seem exist 
 Without a method or excuse to give; 
 The phantom life that imagery has grown 
 On earth awhile continue to persist, 
 But still without excuse or method live. 
 
-175— 
 
 CL. 
 
 Evading all, hypothesis uplift, 
 
 As spectre from imagination loom 
 
 From depth unknown of vast primeval gloom, 
 
 As imagery's one solitary gift 
 
 To mortal man wherewith himself to rift 
 
 Impending cloud of fate, ere startling boom 
 Of crack of ever onward coming doom, 
 
 Make needless for him and all any shift: 
 
 Against this absolute philosophy 
 
 Asks simply that man open-eyed perceive 
 And nothing whatsoever ask of hope; 
 Since argument can only mystify. 
 
 And any faith but man himself deceive 
 Where actual is all within his scope. 
 
176- 
 
 CLI. 
 
 Resist not evil, said the Nazarene, 
 To whom as absolute philosophy- 
 All life is power of infinity 
 
 That self-willed man is prone to contravene, 
 
 Since pride or fear will human creature wean 
 From one existing opportunity 
 To follow his own ingenuity 
 
 And quench in folly life's celestial sheen: 
 
 Hence absolute philosophy finds voice 
 
 Of Christ speaks truth and truth alone will speak 
 That all who heed shall know the voice they hear. 
 And also find that man who makes a choice 
 Is bound without a chance of any freak 
 To waste a life if ruled by pride or fear. 
 
-177- 
 
 CLII. 
 
 Before the world was I am, said the Lord; 
 
 And unequivocally Jewish myth 
 
 Brought consciousness of man to face wherewith 
 All understanding must be in accord; 
 Thence: Absolute, by imagery abhorred, 
 
 As light of day from darkness issue th 
 
 To be of all philosophy the pith, 
 And whatsoever else man's life afford: 
 
 But still is imagery a faculty 
 Imaginary being lend to man, 
 While he imaginary life try live; 
 And vain be absolute philosophy 
 Against imagination that can plan 
 
 How pride and selfishness can bounty give. 
 
-178- 
 
 CLIII. 
 
 ''Thou shalt" and "Thou shalt not," through Moses speak; 
 
 But Imagery know Imagery thus spoke, 
 
 And sleeping consciousness in none awoke, 
 And ever round slow evolution creak 
 At grinding ages of poor earthly freak; 
 
 And will go round without a missing stroke 
 
 Till absolute philosophy man yoke 
 With truth and dawning light long night's haunts seek: 
 
 Since: Never with imagination cope 
 
 Till consciousness creation give and guide 
 For absolute deny to man a deed. 
 In absolute philosophy not hope 
 
 But certainty for man is waiting wide. 
 
 If Christ, not priest nor poets, he will heed. 
 
-179- 
 
 CLIV. 
 
 No system will the truth of Christ enclose 
 
 And pride of man's attempt thereon to found 
 A church, or plan salvation, but astound 
 
 As if the unconditioned to expose, 
 
 Will not emotion shown for Christ disclose 
 
 To all the licking tongue of cringing hound 
 Far rather than a muscular rebound 
 
 From false to true that through all times re-echoes: 
 
 "Be not deceived" — indeed none are deceived; 
 Far better say, "I go not," and still go 
 Than to say, "I go," and still go you not. 
 On every hand by all of all perceived. 
 That pride compels hypocrisy bend low 
 To Christianity itself begot. 
 
180— 
 
 CLV. 
 
 But neither sentiment nor any creed 
 Will absolute philosophy allow 
 Man, whom condition absolute endow, 
 
 Lest mere imagination should him lead; 
 
 Hence vanish poets as an idle breed 
 
 And priestcraft useless made for never vow 
 Without impiety bare any brow, 
 
 When truth of Christ all living men shall heed: 
 
 For absolute, or naught, hence absolute; 
 Perception simply all mankind confront. 
 About which never question can there be; 
 Thence follows certainty without dispute 
 To end as should, as did begin as wont. 
 An absolute that rules eternity. 
 
-181- 
 
 CLVI. 
 
 If seem the world a scene of chance and strife 
 Where imagery's poor invocations strand 
 Not even trying being understand, 
 
 While only is intelligence true life; 
 
 An absolute philosophy, as knife. 
 
 Cuts gordian knot, imagery command, 
 If mere imaginary form disband 
 
 And leave reality there only rife: 
 
 But absolute philosophy ply knife 
 
 In vain if none intelligence can boast. 
 That will its operation ever test; 
 As Christ heard say, "I am the way and life," 
 While imagery but see a guiding post 
 
 To one of many ways, perchance, the best. 
 
-182- 
 
 CLVII. 
 
 Since consciousness without propensity 
 Intelligence in him originate, 
 Man is what consciousness assimilate 
 
 And ever fashioned thus proportionally; 
 
 Whence: Cannot ever speak soliloquy 
 That Hamlet spoke less he annihilate 
 With foolish logic what initiate 
 
 Eventual as originality: 
 
 Which as condition absolute abide, 
 If any being shall perceive or not, 
 And thence ariseth all uncertainty; 
 Wherein imagination, roaming wide, 
 Is vainly seeking for some other lot 
 Than be creation for humanity. 
 
—183- 
 
 CLVIII. 
 
 The forms that shapelessness allow it make, 
 Though boundless shall imagination show, 
 If man condition of existence know 
 
 Of absolute sole consciousness partake; 
 
 N'er absolute, n'er anything awake 
 
 And from bare vacancy however grow, 
 Whereof whatever be forever flow, 
 
 And wrecked philosophy trail in its wake: 
 
 brother man far better understand 
 The simple facts that you, and I, and all 
 Are nothing less of absolute a part; 
 And if be absolute wherefore command 
 Imagination that wormwood and gall 
 Alone we drink for all the days we art? 
 
184- 
 
 CLIX. 
 
 The hope and fear and care that burden man 
 
 Are fruit of that imaginary state 
 
 Where aimless pride his vanity inflate 
 Till puts himself without created clan; 
 Where consciousness, that ample might lead van, 
 
 Imagination wholly abrogate; 
 
 For sphere on sphere are safely going gait 
 Obediently their creator plan: 
 
 Wherefore: When living on the earth Christ said, 
 Come unto me and I will give you rest. 
 Imagination gibberish but heard; 
 Whence: Absolute philosophy right read. 
 Still urge mankind to cease an idle quest 
 And simply take creation at its word. 
 
-185- 
 
 CLX. 
 
 With consciousness that ample power hold 
 
 All actuality within its grasp 
 
 And ever careth for all it will clasp, 
 The conscious life of man begins unfold; 
 Thus finding Christ and getting rest is told, 
 
 While absolute philosophy's last gasp 
 
 Bids man beware of deadlier than asp, 
 When vain imagination make him bold : 
 
 It follows that if any think they do. 
 
 Their deeds are naught and they still in the dark, 
 For pride in man snuffs out all conscious life. 
 Since seeking even heaven's kingdom true 
 Sufficed imagination to light spark 
 
 That burned up truth and filled the world with strife. 
 
-186— 
 
 CLXL 
 
 The Jewish history with sequel in 
 Fiasco man calls Christianity, 
 Will show conclusively that imagery 
 
 Will never let man's conscious life begin. 
 
 And show imagination cobwebs spin 
 In vain to hide an inconsistency 
 Like usurpation of God's potency 
 
 To save man's pride while yet renouncing sin: 
 
 And future history will never more 
 
 Disclose unless mankind shall sometime take 
 The conscious life creative plan provides; 
 For absolute philosophy with sore 
 
 Distress finds man unwilling to forsake 
 The system that alone allows him pride. 
 
■187- 
 
 CLXII. 
 
 A selfish wish, though hope of grace be one, 
 
 Will absolute philosophy deny. 
 
 Since power absolute creation ply 
 That on the earth God's will alone be done. 
 But baseless reason having their trust won, 
 
 Men, like fools, liars, hypocrites, defy 
 
 The truth, and each with other vie 
 Which faster after selfishness can run: 
 
 Though absolute philosophy imputes 
 
 No fault to them, it notes their woeful plight 
 In missing life's one opportunity; 
 And since for ages past, like praying brutes. 
 They have loved darkness rather than the light, 
 That evolution must bring sanity. 
 
-188— 
 
 CLXIII. 
 
 As if a father were in heaven, man 
 
 Can wish that hallowed be his name as worth 
 
 And kingdom come and will be done on earth 
 As pre-supposed in heaven of the plan. 
 But to wish for his daily bread none can, 
 
 Less truth give place to vanity and dearth 
 
 And absolute philosophy engirth 
 But emptiness imagination span: 
 
 When told Christ taught to wish for daily bread 
 We hear the language of one listening 
 
 Who still believes "tomorrow" he must heed; 
 For plainly so-called living things are dead, 
 If power absolute be not the spring 
 
 Of mechanism that nothing shows but speed. 
 
-189- 
 
 CLXIV. 
 
 Though absolute philosophy bar will 
 
 To every being but the absolute 
 
 That knowledge only shall the truth compute, 
 Man's pride will find him reputation still. 
 Whence: He has chosen to bear any ill 
 
 Life shall bring rather than the disrepute 
 
 Of creature like dependence of the brute. 
 Wherefore imagination his days fill: 
 
 Which, baseless reason also selfish make. 
 
 Though losing self finds only certainty 
 
 Conditional existence ever gain; 
 
 Since, where* condition all existence wake, 
 
 Save unconditioned that gives entity, 
 
 One or the other only can pertain. 
 
-190— 
 
 CLXV. 
 
 Would argument give rest to imagery 
 Still actuality will none parade, 
 Perceived or known, by evolution made 
 
 Is light of absolute philosophy; 
 
 That light, if man take conscious entity, 
 Abides unceasingly him to persuade 
 Ere ruthless might of evolution grade 
 
 Down opposition of propensity: 
 
 They seek, said Christ, a sign where is no sign, 
 As child, or stick, or stone, or idiot 
 
 Might know, but not man bound by imagery; 
 Who dream imagination will define 
 For blind humanity some random lot 
 Beyond confines of actuality. 
 
■191— 
 
 CLXVL 
 
 All things adroit in self -persistence prove 
 
 Less actual condition fickle seem; 
 
 Whence imagery once getting life to dream 
 Finds law at hand to keep it in a groove. 
 Though from propensity man slowly move, 
 
 Since consciousness of truth is still supreme, 
 
 If once thereof mankind received a gleam 
 No other light would him again behoove: 
 
 So: "Thou Shalt have no other God but me;" 
 Whence evolution pester Jewry sore 
 
 Found not the jew, because he saw not truth. 
 And, likewise, modern Christianity 
 That will abandon imagery no more 
 Than jew, await impossible of ruth. 
 
-192- 
 
 CLXVII. 
 
 While imagery on argument depend, 
 
 The whole of absolute philosophy • 
 
 Is ''Thou shalt have no other God but me;" 
 That never other argument extend 
 Than certain woe that disputant attend; 
 
 Which: Will, however slowly, surely be 
 
 Triumphant over man's apostacy 
 Before all things come to their final end: 
 
 Were reason else than imagery 'tis sure 
 Mankind would not abide prolonged distress 
 
 When but a moment's thought will give him ease; 
 But reason being imagery assure 
 To imagery the kingdom it possess, 
 Till evolution cures this mind disease. 
 
—193— 
 
 CLXVIII. 
 
 Mere reason only will assure mankind 
 
 So long as faith will pay it deference, 
 But either with creative plan dispense 
 
 That clearly consciousness of truth outlined. 
 
 Whence: When to either state man be resigned, 
 Mankind's condition is a gulf immense 
 That must be crossed ere conscious life commence 
 
 If man become the conscious life designed: 
 
 Nor reason even dare attempt refute 
 That conscious stress, continual in man, 
 Of vanity of all persuasion heard; 
 Does not dominion over him dispute 
 With all imagination bid him scan. 
 
 Though consciousness of truth not a by-word. 
 
-194- 
 
 CLXIX. 
 
 In possibility designed is end, 
 
 Development becoming so complete 
 That consciousness fair actual will meet 
 
 And heaven's kingdom to the earth descend; 
 
 Wherefore: Creative plan no aid amend 
 
 And pride of man at length, as thing elf ete, 
 Will with imagination vanish fleet, 
 
 Since actual will neither comprehend: 
 
 Nor reason point a tale where created man 
 Shall absolute withstand as vanity 
 And mock with imagery the actual; 
 A little while deride creative plan, 
 But sometime absolute philosophy, 
 Abiding still, will vagrants all recall. 
 
-195- 
 
 LCXX. 
 
 When reason sleeps and conscious life awake 
 A father may in heaven be whose will 
 On earth- be done and daily bread may fill, 
 
 Forgiving may forgiving others make, 
 
 And spoliation all mankind forsake. 
 
 Temptation cease, nor any finding ill, 
 Since glory of the father evil kill 
 
 Ere actual man actual life take: 
 
 And reason even will forever sleep 
 If once imagination man evade 
 
 And consciousness of absolute receive; 
 And man will cease to seek, or wanting weep, 
 Nor hope, nor fear, will consciousness degrade 
 If Absolute as absolute perceive. 
 
—196— 
 
 CLXXI. 
 
 When be imagination put aside 
 
 From seeming chaos still will order flow 
 
 And seeming halting steps still onward go 
 And consciousness attend no other stride; 
 And unconditioned still itself safe hide, 
 
 And manifested condition only show; 
 
 For all revealed make vacant long ago 
 Where wantonness of fancy lone abide: 
 
 Whence: Alsolute philosophy content 
 When knowledge of condition will define 
 As consciousness what absolute shall stress; 
 Whence, absolute or nothing be extent 
 That even supposition will confine 
 
 And consciousness hence absolute possess. 
 
197- 
 
 CLXXII. 
 
 While imagery of Christ madfe testament 
 It nothing understood of what he said; 
 Hence merely more imagination fed 
 
 Unconscious man in guise of blandishment 
 
 Of fanciful rewards and punishment; 
 
 Whence: Pride and selfishness have blindly led 
 Man into a condition Christ called dead, 
 
 And absolute philosophy unblent: 
 
 Since consciousness save absolute awake 
 Sensation to state of intelligence 
 Will stay a dormant unused faculty; 
 Whence: Till imagination man forsake, 
 
 All seeming consciousness is mere pretence 
 And life of man not yet an entity. 
 
—198- 
 
 CLXXIII. 
 
 Pride by imagination only fed 
 
 Self-consequence finds in mere blandishment 
 Of possible rewards and punishment 
 
 That selfish living safely may seem to tread; 
 
 Whence absolute philosophy is said 
 
 To find mankind himself makes testament 
 To living in condition called unblent, 
 
 Or as more aptly called by Christ that's dead: 
 
 And reason has to face this truth each day, 
 And all imagination cannot find 
 A place or time wherein it to hide; 
 And never shame put mortal life away 
 Till ceasing willfully to wander blind 
 In absolute philosophy abide. 
 
-199- 
 
 CLXXIV. 
 
 The mournful shall be comforted and are blest, 
 But pope, priest, layman or evangelist 
 Who may with righteousness by choice enlist 
 
 In vain expect to find anointed one's rest. 
 
 Perchance, Brethren of the Cup, we test. 
 Though none to do us reverence insist. 
 While pride and selfishness and will persist. 
 
 Of all the world 'tis sad to think the best: 
 
 Not here and now, but therQ when bare and poor 
 The scattered fragments of infirmity 
 
 Are gathered with the pseudomorphs and judged. 
 None are deceived; each one knows furthermore 
 That fooling, lying and hypocrisy 
 Will nowhere in futurity be lodged. 
 
200- 
 
 CLXXV. 
 
 Shall each one live to stress but mite of mold, 
 
 While seeing never will wrong's theme exhaust, 
 Or patient tracing find aught pay its cost 
 
 And end slow evolution will unfold; 
 
 But heayen's kingdom bring to world that's old, 
 When absolute philosophy has tossed 
 Aside all barrier between the lost 
 
 And day when conscious man shall truth behold: 
 
 • To absolute philosophy as truth 
 
 That Christ alone exposed to sight of man 
 Will man and maker owe the end when one; 
 . For never old be world of wayward youth, 
 Enough while evolution slow lead van 
 
 To see pride, selfishness and will have done. 
 
—201— 
 
 CLXXVI. 
 
 "Come unto me and I will give you rest," 
 Says absolute philosophy to man 
 Since voice of Christ he did not understand 
 
 And still encumbers earth, an idle pest; 
 
 And streams of tears that ever flow attest 
 
 How pride and selfishness have led the van 
 Of life away from wise creation's plan 
 
 To do imagination's vain behest: 
 
 Except a man be bom again, said Christ, 
 He cannot enter into heaven's life, 
 Which in imaginary life is lost, 
 And wandering, if even with a priest. 
 Save guiding light, as Moses had, is strife 
 Without an end, whatever be its cost. 
 
—202- 
 
 CLXXVIL. 
 
 Since consciousness and life together fare 
 And sheer imagination reigned on earth, 
 Christ said, mankind awaits another birth 
 
 To be the creatures of an ample care. 
 
 Since consciousness is even thin as air 
 Imagination easily ape its worth, 
 Though absolute condition it engirth 
 
 As pseudo-consciousness of men declare j. 
 
 Since from unseen relations ever flow i ;?~ 
 All sensibles that consciousness can stress, 
 It comes as cometh thief by night, Christ said. 
 Since even lilies of the valley blow, ■ 
 So aiding hand a single flower dress 
 Creation ends and life from all has fled. 
 
-203- 
 
 CLXXVIII. 
 
 Perchance: Imagination ever doubt 
 
 From Whither back to Whence be absolute, 
 Though else be nothing even to compute 
 
 And self Imagination also rOut; 
 
 Nor Logic other than a henchman stout 
 To blow Imagination's windy flute 
 That aggregations wantoning en route 
 
 To thin Attenuation whistles out: 
 
 And thus all being will attenuate 
 Till Vanity itself alone display 
 Triumphant, gravely, over Entity; 
 Thus, aimless Hope denied, Life aggravate 
 To put all Actuality away 
 
 And find in Emptiness Satiety. 
 
204— 
 
 CLXXIX. 
 
 Perchance, Pride, Selfishness and Will persist 
 From whence to whither will be absolute 
 For naught; since thence Imagination loot 
 
 Mankind of consciousness that Truth exist; 
 
 Nor Faith be other than Will-o'-the-Wisp 
 Wherewith Imagination deftly suit 
 The Idiocy of those Self-Astute 
 
 Whom knowingly no leadership enlist: 
 
 Thence: Consciousness of Truth give place to pride, 
 And Folly, Lying and Hypocrisy 
 
 Life far and wide and long despoil of worth; 
 But Absolute Condition will abide. 
 And patient Absolute Philosophy 
 
 Await the day when Conscious Man have birth. 
 
-205- 
 
 . CLXXX. 
 
 The lonesome individual man spurns 
 A homogeneity for fancied form 
 Of heterogeneity his warm 
 
 Imagination out of nothing turns; 
 
 Hence through sensation never being learns 
 And some day will awake with just alarm 
 In vacancy that nowhere shows the norm 
 
 Of conscious life for which creation yearns: 
 
 A lookeron in Verona till then 
 An idle occupation plies and jests 
 
 With seriousness if marks what passes by. 
 I am the way, the life, says Christ again. 
 And still again, and ever truth attests 
 Through him an absolute philosophy. 
 
—206— 
 
 CLXXXI. 
 
 Unspun the textile waits on coming deft, 
 
 And warp and woof in thread abide till drawn, 
 For individuality is spawn 
 
 Of Rock of Ages never for it cleft. 
 
 Each individual has wholly left 
 
 A seamless past behind to spend its brawn 
 In keeping face to ever breaking dawn 
 
 Of day that never yesterday bereft: 
 
 All consciousness will therefore find its scope 
 On seamless rock of ages cleft for none 
 While watching dawn of ever coming day. 
 In vain imagination rises hope 
 
 That other consciousness will still be won 
 That leads mankind in waywardness astray. 
 
-201 
 
 CLXXXII. 
 
 Lord, arise, help and deliver us 
 
 For Thy name's sake. We have heard with our ears 
 As have declared our fathers through the seers. 
 
 And know the mighty works that Thou enforce; 
 
 Lord, arise, help and deliver us 
 
 From pride and foolish faith and idle fears 
 That baseless phantom Hope in man uprears 
 
 Since Eos woke his eons dolorous: 
 
 Lord, arise, help and deliver man, 
 
 According to Thy greatness sow and reap. 
 Nor wait on Evolution's harvest slow. 
 Lord: According to Thy good old plan 
 Have living man his life alive to keep 
 And consciousness of truth to ever show. 
 
n ^8 1902 
 ICOPVBEL. TGCAT.D«V, 
 APR. 28 1902