{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/sil/scw/scw04.htm","path":"chr/sil/scw/scw04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw04.htm","text":"85 (I. 8)\n GOD LIVETH NOT WITHOUT ME\n| I know God cannot live one instant without Me: If I should come to naught, needs must He cease to be. | \n86 (I. 10)\n I AM AS GOD AND GOD AS I\n| I am as great as God, He is as small as I: No higher than I is He, nor I than He less high. | \n87 (I. 14)\n A CHRISTIAN IS AS RICH AS GOD\n| I am as rich as God. He owns no particle Of dust\u2014believe me, Man!\u2014that is not mine as well. | \n88 (II. 178)\n ALL CONSISTS IN I AND THOU\n (CREATOR AND CREATURE.)\n| Naught is but I and Thou. Were there nor Thou nor I, Then God is no more God, and Heaven falls from the sky. | \n89 (I. 68)\n DEEP CALLETH UNTO DEEP\n| Deep calls to Deep. My spirit's Deep doth cry amain To Deep of God: say, which is deeper of the twain? | \n90 (II. 180)\n MAN IS NAUGHT, GOD ALL\n| I am not I nor Thou: Thou art the I in Me: Therefore I yield the meed of honour unto Thee. | \n91 (II. 142)\n THOU MUST BE IT THYSELF\n| Ask not what is divine. It were too great a task To comprehend\u2014unless thou art what thou dost ask. | \n92 (I. 81)\n GOD BLOSSOMS OUT OF HIS BRANCHES\n| If thou art born of God, God blossometh in thee: His Godhead is thy sap and flower-finery. | \n93 (II. 120)\n MAN EATETH AND DRINKETH GOD\n| If thou art one with God, truly it may be said Thou eat'st and drinkest God in every piece of bread. | \n94 (III. 20)\n GOD-MAN\n| That I may come to wealth, God comes to beggary: That I may become He, lo! He becometh I. | \n95 (I. 96)\n GOD CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT ME\n| God hath no potency to make A single worm without my aid: If I sustain it not with Him Straightway its being is unmade. | \n96 (I. 72)\n HOW IS GOD SEEN?\n| No Way there is by which to go Unto the Light wherein God dwells: Thou must thyself become the Light Or God is hidden from thee else. | \n97 (IV. 24)\n THE TRANSFORMATION\n| Body must into Spirit pass, And Spirit into Deity, If thou wouldst have thy dearest wish And know the perfect ecstasy. | \n98 (II. 255)\n FIVE DEGREES IN GOD\n| Five ladder-rungs there are in God\u2014 Slave, Friend, Son, Bride and Spouse. Who climbeth higher unselfs himself, Drops count of I's and Thou's. | \n99 (V. 76)\n AS HIS FRIENDSHIP SO THE FRIEND\n| Thou drinkest in the soul of him With whom thou'rt friended\u2014in the end Becomest God, if friend of God, And Devil, if the Devil's friend. | \n100 (V. 200)\n A MAN IS CHANGED INTO WHAT HE LOVES\n| Thou shalt become that thing itself Which thou dost deem of dearest worth\u2014 God shalt become if thou lov'st God, And Earth if so thou lovest Earth. | \n101 (V. 332)\n WHITHER MAN GOES WHEN HE DIES INTO GOD\n| When I die into God, I once again return There where I was eternally ere I was born. | \n102 (V. 233)\n WHEN MAN IS GOD\n| Once I was God in God, or ever I was I, And can be God again, if this I could but die. | \n103 (VI. 175)\n UNION WITH GOD IS EASY\n| 'Tis easier, Man, to see thyself and God all one Than open a closed eye\u2014will it and it is done. | \n104 (V. 259)\n GOD BECOMETH I BECAUSE I AFORETIME WAS HE\n| God doth become what now I am, Assumes my manhood; what He is, The same aforetime I have been: Therefore it is He doeth this. | \n105 (II. 159)\n SPIRIT IS AS ESSENCE\n| My Spirit is a partial Being: It yearns to be recentred in That Essence whence it broke away, Its primal Root and Origin. | \n106 (IV. 12)\n ALL WEAL IN ONE THING ONLY\n| From but one thing my all of Weal, My all of Peace doth spring; Though losing much upon the way, I run with haste to this One Thing. | \n107 (II. 201)\n MAN AND THE OTHER GOD\n| What only difference lies 'twixt me and God? Confess! I'll tell you in a word\u2014nothing but Otherness. | \n108 (IV. 10)\n COMPLETE BEATITUDE\n| No man can ever know perfect Felicity Till Otherness be swallowed up in Unity. | \n109 (IV. 181)\n OF THE BLESSED SOUL\n| Of Otherness the blessed Soul Hath lost the very sense; It is a single Light with God And one Magnificence. | \n110 (V. 126)\n THE DEATH OF I-HOOD STRENGTHENS GOD IN THEE\n| The more the I in me doth fail, Diminish and sink lower, So much the more the I of God Aggrandizeth its power. | \n111 (V. 234)\n EVERYTHING RETURNS TO ITS ORIGIN\n| Of earth was Body born and once Again becometh earth: And shall not Soul again become God, since God gave it birth? | \n112 (IV. 140)\n THE NOBLEST PRAYER\n| That is the noblest prayer a man can pray when he Becometh one with Him to Whom he bends his knee. | \n113 (V. 219)\n MAN MUST NOT REMAIN MAN\n| Man, be not ever man! the summit must be gained! In God's house Gods and Gods alone are entertained. | \n114 (VI. 171)\n IN THE SEA EVERY DROP BECOMETH SEA\n| When to the Sea at last it comes The smallest drop becometh Sea: Even so thy Soul becometh God When God at last absorbeth thee. | \n115 (II. 172)\n MAN MUST BE A PHOENIX\n| I will be Phoenix, burn myself in God, and then Nothing shall sunder me from Him ever again. | \n116 (IV. 135)\n THE STREAM BECOMETH SEA\n| Here I, a Stream of Time, flow into Deity, There I myself am the serene eternal Sea. | \n117 (I. 23)\n THE SPIRITUAL MARY\n| I must be Mary and myself Give birth to God, would I possess \u2014Nor can I otherwise\u2014God's gift Of everlasting Happiness. | \n118 (I. 276)\n ONE THE OTHER'S BEGINNING AND END\n| God is my final end; If then I am His origin, From mine His Being floweth out, To Him my Being floweth in. | \n119 (I. 100)\n ONE UPHOLDETH THE OTHER\n| God's need of me, my need of God, Are equal in degree. He helps to bear my being up And I help Him to be. | \n120 (IV. 153)\n THE SEA IN A LITTLE DROP\n| Into this little drop, this I, how can it be That there should flow the whole Sea of the Deity? |","title":"IV ONENESS WITH THE DIVINE","type":"page"}