The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | NOVEMBER 1938
GOD ONLY
“IN THE market, in the cloister—only GOD I saw.
In the valley and on the mountain—only GOD I saw.
HIM I have seen beside me oft in tribulation;
In favor and in fortune—only GOD I saw.
In prayer and fasting, in praise and contemplation,
In the religion of the Prophet—only GOD I saw.
Neither soul nor body, accident nor substance,
Qualities nor causes—only GOD I saw.
I opened my eyes and by the light of HIS Face around me—
In all the eye discovered—only GOD I saw.
Myself with mine own eyes I saw most clearly,
But when I looked with GOD’S eyes—only GOD I saw.
I passed away into nothingness, I vanished.
And lo, I was the All-living—only GOD I saw.”
—By a Persian poet, Baba Kuhi of Shiraz, A. D. 1050
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“CONSIDER the World of Light of which the material world is but a reflected, unstable and shadowy replica . . . In this inner realm, Light is the Vesture of God—the Externalized Reality that forever ensouls all outer Light—the Seamless Garment of the Oversoul . . . the actual and potential seed from which all things proceed, and in which all things and creatures have their roots of Being. Light should be considered as an Entity and you have been told that every Ray of Light that you see is the outer body of a highly evolved spiritual entity. Light is also the substance-matter of the higher planes and that Light is also a Robe or state of consciousness . . .” Teachings of the Temple.
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