209 (II. 30)
ACCIDENT AND ESSENCE
| Become essential, Man! When the world fails at last, Accident falls away, but Essence, that stands fast. |
210 (I. 274)
THE ACCIDENT MUST GO
| All Accident must go, all false appearances: Put off thy specious hues—be pure as Essence is. |
211 (V. 356)
THE PERFECT DRIVETH OUT THE IMPERFECT
| When full Perfection comes, the imperfect falls aside: So fades my human part when I am deified. |
212 (I. 108)
THE ROSE
| The Rose which here thou seest with thine outward eye Hath blossomèd in God from all eternity. |
213 (II. 182)
GOD IS ALL AT ONCE
| There is no After, no Before; And what to-morrow shall befall Already from eternity In Essence God hath seen it all. |
214 (V. 179)
GOD MAKETH NOTHING NEW
| 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. |
215 (I. 71)
MAN MUST BE ESSENCE
| To practise love is burdensome. 'Tis not enough Merely to love—we must ourselves, like God, be Love. |
216 (VI. 226)
A RIGHT JUDGEMENT BRINGETH NOT SADNESS
| The true and proper worth of things Who understandeth to assay, Will never sorrow overmuch For aught that Time can bear away. |
217 (VI. 224)
CHILDREN WEEP FOR DOLLS
| A child that weepeth for its dolls Maketh thee smile—and are they more Than dolls and toys, those very things That thou thyself art weeping for? |
218 (I. 38)
EQUAL ESTIMATION MAKETH PEACE
| Canst thou divest from diverse things Their aspect of diversity, Come Love, come Pain, thou standest fast, Poised in thy equanimity. |
219 (V. 45)
VICE IS ONLY APPEARANCE
| All naked Virtue stands, Vice doth apparelled go; Virtue is truly large, Vice only seemeth so. |
220 (V. 37)
GOD LOOKETH TO THE ROOT
| '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. |
221 (V. 168)
THE SINNER DOETH NOTHING WELL
| Though thou dost feed and clothe the needy multitude, Is goodness not in thee, then is thy deed not good. |
222 (V. 72)
GOD IS EQUALLY NEAR TO ALL
| God is as near Beelzebub As He is near the Seraphim, 'Tis only that Beelzebub Turneth his back on Him. |
223 (V. 30)
THE DEVIL IS GOOD
| 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. |
224 (V. 15)
DAMNATION IS IN ESSENCE
| Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair. |
225 (VI. 208)
WISE AND FOOLISH BEAUTY
| 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. |
226 (VI. 251)
TO THE FOOL
| Opinions are a shifting sand, And fools build houses thereupon: Wise wilt thou never be if thou Dost build upon Opinion. |
227 (II. 71)
THE ESSENTIAL MAN
| The essential Man is like unto Eternity, Unchanged by any breath of externality. |
228 (I. 102)
THE SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY
| Then Lead becometh Gold, then Accident is ended, When I with God, through God, in God, am wholly blended. |