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-====== The Inner Life 1937 ======
+====== The Inner Life ======
-== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE ==
+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | SEPTEMBER 1937 ==
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+==== SANDALPHON ====
+**“The Great Angel”**
+HAVE you read in the Talmud of old,
+\\ In the Legends the Rabbins have told
+\\ Of the limitless realms of the air,
+\\ Have you read it, the marvelous story
+\\ Of Sandalphon, the Angel of Glory,
+\\ Sandalphon, the Angel of Prayer?
+How, erect at the outermost gates
+\\ Of the City Celestial He waits,
+\\ With His feet on the ladder of light,
+\\ That, crowded with angels unnumbered,
+\\ By Jacob was seen, as he slumbered,
+\\ Alone in the desert at night?
+The Angels of Wind and of Fire
+\\ Chant only one hymn, and expire
+\\ With the song’s irresistible stress;
+\\ Expire in their rapture and wonder,
+\\ As harp-strings are broken asunder
+\\ By music they throb to express.
+But serene in the rapturous throng,
+\\ Unmoved by the rush of the song,
+\\ With eyes unimpassioned and slow,
+\\ Among the dead angels, the deathless
+\\ Sandalphon stands, listening breathless
+\\ To sounds that ascend from below—
+From the spirits on earth that adore,
+\\ From the souls that entreat and implore
+\\ In the fervor and passion of prayer;
+\\ From the hearts that are broken with losses,
+\\ And weary with dragging the crosses
+\\ Too heavy for mortals to bear.
+And He gathers the prayers as He stands,
+\\ And they change into flowers in His hands,
+\\ Into garlands of purple and red;
+\\ And beneath the great arch of the portal,
+\\ Through the streets of the City Immortal
+\\ Is wafted the fragrance they shed.
+When I look from my window at night,
+\\ And the welkin above is all white,
+\\ All throbbing and panting with stars,
+\\ Among them majestic is standing
+\\ Sandalphon the angel, expanding
+\\ His pinions in nebulous bars.
+And the legend, I feel, is a part
+\\ Of the hunger and thirst of the heart,
+\\ The frenzy and fire of the brain,
+\\ That grasps at the fruitage forbidden,
+\\ The golden pomegranates of Eden,
+\\ To quiet its fever and pain.
+\\ —Longfellow.
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