{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/sil/scw/scw09.htm","path":"chr/sil/scw/scw09.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw09.htm","text":"209 (II. 30)\n ACCIDENT AND ESSENCE\n| Become essential, Man! When the world fails at last, Accident falls away, but Essence, that stands fast. | \n210 (I. 274)\n THE ACCIDENT MUST GO\n| All Accident must go, all false appearances: Put off thy specious hues\u2014be pure as Essence is. | \n211 (V. 356)\n THE PERFECT DRIVETH OUT THE IMPERFECT\n| When full Perfection comes, the imperfect falls aside: So fades my human part when I am deified. | \n212 (I. 108)\n THE ROSE\n| The Rose which here thou seest with thine outward eye Hath blossom\u00e8d in God from all eternity. | \n213 (II. 182)\n GOD IS ALL AT ONCE\n| There is no After, no Before; And what to-morrow shall befall Already from eternity In Essence God hath seen it all. | \n214 (V. 179)\n GOD MAKETH NOTHING NEW\n| God maketh no new thing, though new It seem to us. We think we see The act of birth, but what is born Is birthless in eternity. | \n215 (I. 71)\n MAN MUST BE ESSENCE\n| To practise love is burdensome. 'Tis not enough Merely to love\u2014we must ourselves, like God, be Love. | \n216 (VI. 226)\n A RIGHT JUDGEMENT BRINGETH NOT SADNESS\n| The true and proper worth of things Who understandeth to assay, Will never sorrow overmuch For aught that Time can bear away. | \n217 (VI. 224)\n CHILDREN WEEP FOR DOLLS\n| A child that weepeth for its dolls Maketh thee smile\u2014and are they more Than dolls and toys, those very things That thou thyself art weeping for? | \n218 (I. 38)\n EQUAL ESTIMATION MAKETH PEACE\n| Canst thou divest from diverse things Their aspect of diversity, Come Love, come Pain, thou standest fast, Poised in thy equanimity. | \n219 (V. 45)\n VICE IS ONLY APPEARANCE\n| All naked Virtue stands, Vice doth apparelled go; Virtue is truly large, Vice only seemeth so. | \n220 (V. 37)\n GOD LOOKETH TO THE ROOT\n| 'Tis not the Somewhat thou hast done God values, looks not to the fruit; Only the How He contemplates, Only the kernel and the root. | \n221 (V. 168)\n THE SINNER DOETH NOTHING WELL\n| Though thou dost feed and clothe the needy multitude, Is goodness not in thee, then is thy deed not good. | \n222 (V. 72)\n GOD IS EQUALLY NEAR TO ALL\n| God is as near Beelzebub As He is near the Seraphim, 'Tis only that Beelzebub Turneth his back on Him. | \n223 (V. 30)\n THE DEVIL IS GOOD\n| The Devil is as good as thou If Being is the test. What is it that the Devil lacks? Peace and a Will at rest. | \n224 (V. 15)\n DAMNATION IS IN ESSENCE\n| Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair. | \n225 (VI. 208)\n WISE AND FOOLISH BEAUTY\n| Wiser the maid who knoweth well Herself is her best loveliness Than she who dreams she's beautiful When she puts on a lovely dress. | \n226 (VI. 251)\n TO THE FOOL\n| Opinions are a shifting sand, And fools build houses thereupon: Wise wilt thou never be if thou Dost build upon Opinion. | \n227 (II. 71)\n THE ESSENTIAL MAN\n| The essential Man is like unto Eternity, Unchanged by any breath of externality. | \n228 (I. 102)\n THE SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY\n| Then Lead becometh Gold, then Accident is ended, When I with God, through God, in God, am wholly blended. |","title":"IX ACCIDENT AND ESSENCE","type":"page"}