VII

THE KASÎDAH VII — • — “Reason and Instinct!” How we love to play with words that please our pride; Our noble race’s mean descent by false forged titles seek to hide! For “gift divine” I bid you read the better work of higher brain, From Instinct diff’ering in degree as golden mine from leaden … Read more

THE KASÎDAH VII — • — “Of molecules and protoplasm you matter-mongers prompt to prate; “Of jelly-speck development and apes that grew to man’s estate.” Vain cavil! all that is hath come either by Mir’acle or by Law;— Why waste on this your hate and fear, why waste on that your love and awe? Why … Read more

THE KASÎDAH VII — • — The Soul required a greater Soul, a Soul of Souls, to rule the host; Hence spirit-powers and hierarchies, all gendered by the savage Ghost. Not yours, ye Peoples of the Book, these fairy visions fair and fond, Got by the gods of Khemi-land* and faring far the seas beyond! … Read more

THE KASÎDAH VII — • — We know the Gen’esis of the Soul; we trace the Soul to hour of birth; We mark its growth as grew mankind to boast himself sole Lord of Earth: The race of Be’ing from dawn of Life in an unbroken course was run; What men are pleased to call … Read more

THE KASÎDAH VII — • — MAN hath no Soul, a state of things, a no-thing still, a sound, a word Which so begets substantial thing that eye shall see what ear hath heard. Where was his Soul the savage beast which in primeval forests strayed, What shape had it, what dwelling-place, what part in … Read more