{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/sil/scw/scw06.htm","path":"chr/sil/scw/scw06.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw06.htm","text":"139 (I. 24)\n THOU MUST BE NAUGHT, WILL NAUGHT\n| If thou art Somewhat to thyself, If Somewhat thou dost love and will, If Somewhat knowest, Somewhat hast\u2014 Thou carriest thy Burden still. | \n140 (I. 58)\n SELF-SEEKING\n| If seeking God thou seekest Rest, Then is thy reckoning out of trim: God's hireling art thou, not His child, Thou seekest thine own Self, not Him. | \n141 (II. 57)\n MAN MUST GROW FREE FROM HIMSELF\n| Grow free from self, from all created things grow free, Then God will graft His Godlike nature on to thee. | \n142 (I. 143)\n 'TIS SELFHOOD THAT DAMNS\n| Could but the Devil quit his His-ness, thereupon The Devil thou wouldst see sitting upon God's throne | \n143 (V. 32)\n SELFWILL RUINS ALL\n| If even in Christ himself there were Selfwill at all, Despite his Blessedness, believe me, he would fall. | \n144 (I. 138)\n THE MORE THOU GOEST OUT, THE MORE GOD COMETH IN\n| The more thyself out of thyself Thou canst dischannel and outpour, The more must God flow into thee With all His Godhead more and more. | \n145 (II. 140)\n SELF-NULLIFYING\n| Naught bringeth thee beyond thyself So surely as Self-nullity: The more thou canst annul thyself The more thou hast of Deity. | \n146 (II. 136)\n ABANDONMENT\n| Go out\u2014and so God goeth in; Die to thyself\u2014thou hast begun To live to God; Be not\u2014He is; Do naught\u2014His bidding's done. | \n147 (V. 220)\n HOW GOD IS FOUND\n| Seekest thou God, then must thou, Man, First lose thy Self-identity, Nor ever find again the trace Of Self in all eternity. | \n148 (V. 186)\n OWNHOOD IS THE CAUSE OF ALL EVIL\n| Communion engendereth Peace; But Ownhood giveth rise To Persecution, War and Strife, And all Calamities. | \n149 (V. 238)\n \"MINE\" AND \"THINE\" ARE DAMNABLE\n| Two words, and nothing else in all the world, combine To plunge thee into Hell\u2014two hateful words, Mine, Thine. | \n150 (II. 72)\n HE WHO CAN SING WITH THE ANGELS\n| He who can soar above himself One instant at the most, He too can sing the Gloria With the angeleic host. | \n151 (V. 33)\n WHEN GOD MOST DELIGHTS TO BE WITH US\n| God, whose extreme delight it is To dwell with thee, doth come Most willingly into thy house When thou art not at home. | \n152 (I. 46)\n THE BLESSED UNTHING\n| I am a blessed Thing if I Can but unthing myself, forgo All my community with things, My cognizance of things unknow. | \n153 (I. 92)\n HE WHO IS WHOLLY DEIFIED\n| Who is as were he not, nor yet had come to be, He is become\u2014O Happiness!\u2014sheer Deity. | \n154 (IV. 139)\n THE HAPPY DROWNING\n| If thou dost sail thy little ship Upon the Sea of Deity, It were indeed a happy chance Shouldst thou be drowned in that great Sea. | \n155 (II. 92)\n THE MYSTICAL ABANDONMENT\n| Abandonment ensnareth God: But the Abandonment supreme, Which few there be can comprehend, Is to abandon even Him. | \n156 (VI. 172)\n IN THE SEA NO DROP IS DISTINGUISHABLE\n| If thou canst designate a drop Lost in the Sea's immensity, Then wilt thou in the Sea of God Divine my soul's identity. | \n157 (II. 25)\n THOU MAKEST THY OWN DISQUIET\n| Thee into thy disquiet nor God nor Creature brings, Thou dost disquiet thyself caring for many things. | \n158 (III. 177)\n THE LONG MARTYRDOM\n| The Martyrs fare exceeding well: Swift passage through the mortal fires, Then God's embrace. But we lifelong Are martyred. How?\u2014By our Desires. | \n159 (I. 158)\n WHO DRINKETH THE SPRING OF LIFE?\n| Fain wouldst thou drink the Spring of Life? Then must thou first Sweat out, whilst here upon this earth, Thy proper thirst. | \n160 (II. 197)\n SELF-ABNEGATION\n| Lord, take the Crown away! I know not aught of Mine: How can it rightly then be mine and yet not Thine! | \n161 (V. 229)\n MEASUREMENT IS THE FALL\n| Take not the measure of thy goodness\u2014it is gone As soon as it is self-confessed and thought upon. | \n162 (II. 133)\n RESIGNATION\n| Should God forbid me Heaven, it pleaseth me as well Here to abide on earth or take my place in Hell. | \n163 (V. 367)\n READY FOR ALL\n| He is the proper Hero who remains unshaken Whether by God befriended or by God forsaken. | \n164 (V. 105)\n HEAVEN CAN BE STOLEN\n| Who, hidden, doeth good; secret, bestoweth wealth: He is a Master-thief and stealeth Heaven by stealth. | \n165 (I. 39)\n IMPERFECT ABANDONMENT\n| His Self is not all given to God who cannot dwell Even in Hell itself and find in Hell no Hell. | \n166 (VI. 170)\n TWO WAYS OF LOSING ONE'S SELF\n| So I may yet be lost? O ay! If lost in death, loss limitless. But if thou lose thyself in God Thy loss is then all happiness. |","title":"VI SELF-ABANDONMENT","type":"page"}