CONTENTS
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Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew)
WHAT IS "SPIRITUAL RELIGION" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
TWO PROPHETS OF THE INWARD WORD: BUeNDERLIN AND ENTFELDER 31
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Within thy sheltering darkness spin the spheres; Within the shaded hollow of thy wings. The life of things, The changeless pivot of the passing years— These in thy bosom lie. Restless we seek thy being; to and fro Upon our little twisting earth we go: We cry, "Lo, there!" When some new avatar thy glory does declare, When some new prophet of thy friendship sings, And in his tracks we run Like an enchanted child, that hastes to catch the sun.
And shall the soul thereby Unto the All draw nigh? Shall it avail to plumb the mystic deeps Of flowery beauty, scale the icy steeps Of perilous thought, thy hidden Face to find, Or tread the starry paths to the utmost verge of the sky? Nay, groping dull and blind Within the sheltering dimness of thy wings— Shade that their splendour flings Athwart Eternity— We, out of age-long wandering, but come Back to our Father's heart, where now we are at home.
EVELYN UNDERHILL in Immanence, p. 82.
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