115. From ‘The Mystic’

GOD was, alone in unity. He willed

The infinite creation; and it was.

That the creation might exist, His Son,

And that it might return to Him, the Spirit

Disclosed themselves within Him; thus triune

But as the all-made must of necessity

Inferior be to its creator, thus

Arose the infinite imperfect, time,

The spirit-host angelic, heavenly race,

Brute life and vegetive, electric light,

Matter and fleshly form; to human souls

Nine generations from aeternity.

But God, who is Love, decreed it should return

By pure regeneration unto God;

Wherefore was need that He from whom came life

Should taste death, but in tasting swallow up;

That commune with all creatures might be made,

On this hand, and on that, with Deity.

Thus death and evil expiate ends divine;

The Spirit the imperfect hallowing, death

The Son; the soul regenerate hies to God;

And as in radial union with the point

Infinite, both in greatness, place, and power.

Lives with the maker and the all-made in love.