85 (I. 8)
GOD LIVETH NOT WITHOUT ME
| I know God cannot live one instant without Me: If I should come to naught, needs must He cease to be. |
86 (I. 10)
I AM AS GOD AND GOD AS I
| I am as great as God, He is as small as I: No higher than I is He, nor I than He less high. |
87 (I. 14)
A CHRISTIAN IS AS RICH AS GOD
| I am as rich as God. He owns no particle Of dust—believe me, Man!—that is not mine as well. |
88 (II. 178)
ALL CONSISTS IN I AND THOU
(CREATOR AND CREATURE.)
| Naught is but I and Thou. Were there nor Thou nor I, Then God is no more God, and Heaven falls from the sky. |
89 (I. 68)
DEEP CALLETH UNTO DEEP
| Deep calls to Deep. My spirit's Deep doth cry amain To Deep of God: say, which is deeper of the twain? |
90 (II. 180)
MAN IS NAUGHT, GOD ALL
| I am not I nor Thou: Thou art the I in Me: Therefore I yield the meed of honour unto Thee. |
91 (II. 142)
THOU MUST BE IT THYSELF
| Ask not what is divine. It were too great a task To comprehend—unless thou art what thou dost ask. |
92 (I. 81)
GOD BLOSSOMS OUT OF HIS BRANCHES
| If thou art born of God, God blossometh in thee: His Godhead is thy sap and flower-finery. |
93 (II. 120)
MAN EATETH AND DRINKETH GOD
| If thou art one with God, truly it may be said Thou eat'st and drinkest God in every piece of bread. |
94 (III. 20)
GOD-MAN
| That I may come to wealth, God comes to beggary: That I may become He, lo! He becometh I. |
95 (I. 96)
GOD CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT ME
| God hath no potency to make A single worm without my aid: If I sustain it not with Him Straightway its being is unmade. |
96 (I. 72)
HOW IS GOD SEEN?
| 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. |
97 (IV. 24)
THE TRANSFORMATION
| Body must into Spirit pass, And Spirit into Deity, If thou wouldst have thy dearest wish And know the perfect ecstasy. |
98 (II. 255)
FIVE DEGREES IN GOD
| Five ladder-rungs there are in God— Slave, Friend, Son, Bride and Spouse. Who climbeth higher unselfs himself, Drops count of I's and Thou's. |
99 (V. 76)
AS HIS FRIENDSHIP SO THE FRIEND
| Thou drinkest in the soul of him With whom thou'rt friended—in the end Becomest God, if friend of God, And Devil, if the Devil's friend. |
100 (V. 200)
A MAN IS CHANGED INTO WHAT HE LOVES
| Thou shalt become that thing itself Which thou dost deem of dearest worth— God shalt become if thou lov'st God, And Earth if so thou lovest Earth. |
101 (V. 332)
WHITHER MAN GOES WHEN HE DIES INTO GOD
| When I die into God, I once again return There where I was eternally ere I was born. |
102 (V. 233)
WHEN MAN IS GOD
| Once I was God in God, or ever I was I, And can be God again, if this I could but die. |
103 (VI. 175)
UNION WITH GOD IS EASY
| 'Tis easier, Man, to see thyself and God all one Than open a closed eye—will it and it is done. |
104 (V. 259)
GOD BECOMETH I BECAUSE I AFORETIME WAS HE
| 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. |
105 (II. 159)
SPIRIT IS AS ESSENCE
| My Spirit is a partial Being: It yearns to be recentred in That Essence whence it broke away, Its primal Root and Origin. |
106 (IV. 12)
ALL WEAL IN ONE THING ONLY
| 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. |
107 (II. 201)
MAN AND THE OTHER GOD
| What only difference lies 'twixt me and God? Confess! I'll tell you in a word—nothing but Otherness. |
108 (IV. 10)
COMPLETE BEATITUDE
| No man can ever know perfect Felicity Till Otherness be swallowed up in Unity. |
109 (IV. 181)
OF THE BLESSED SOUL
| Of Otherness the blessed Soul Hath lost the very sense; It is a single Light with God And one Magnificence. |
110 (V. 126)
THE DEATH OF I-HOOD STRENGTHENS GOD IN THEE
| The more the I in me doth fail, Diminish and sink lower, So much the more the I of God Aggrandizeth its power. |
111 (V. 234)
EVERYTHING RETURNS TO ITS ORIGIN
| Of earth was Body born and once Again becometh earth: And shall not Soul again become God, since God gave it birth? |
112 (IV. 140)
THE NOBLEST PRAYER
| That is the noblest prayer a man can pray when he Becometh one with Him to Whom he bends his knee. |
113 (V. 219)
MAN MUST NOT REMAIN MAN
| Man, be not ever man! the summit must be gained! In God's house Gods and Gods alone are entertained. |
114 (VI. 171)
IN THE SEA EVERY DROP BECOMETH SEA
| 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. |
115 (II. 172)
MAN MUST BE A PHOENIX
| I will be Phoenix, burn myself in God, and then Nothing shall sunder me from Him ever again. |
116 (IV. 135)
THE STREAM BECOMETH SEA
| Here I, a Stream of Time, flow into Deity, There I myself am the serene eternal Sea. |
117 (I. 23)
THE SPIRITUAL MARY
| I must be Mary and myself Give birth to God, would I possess —Nor can I otherwise—God's gift Of everlasting Happiness. |
118 (I. 276)
ONE THE OTHER'S BEGINNING AND END
| God is my final end; If then I am His origin, From mine His Being floweth out, To Him my Being floweth in. |
119 (I. 100)
ONE UPHOLDETH THE OTHER
| 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. |
120 (IV. 153)
THE SEA IN A LITTLE DROP
| Into this little drop, this I, how can it be That there should flow the whole Sea of the Deity? |